Dulce de Leche Cupcakes

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These Dulce de Leche Cupcakes with Dulce De Leche are heavenly. The gooey dulce de leche filling in the center of every cupcake makes them even special when combined with the dulce de leche buttercream frosting. They’re simply moist and rich in flavor. 

Dulce De Leche Cupcakes with Dulce De Leche Buttercream Frosting

Stepping into a bakery and not picking a cupcake is rare in my case. I love discovering flavors, moreover coming up with new flavors. You’ve definitely heard people say baking is therapeutic. I agree.. 100%  To me my all time favorite is making cupcakes with a simple frosting. So here I am, introducing my latest creation: The Dulce de Leche cupcakes loaded with dulce de leche as a center filling and topped with dulce de leche buttercream frosting, this totally makes the Best Dulce De Leche Cupcake or the Ultimate Dulce De Leche Dessert Recipe

Who doesn’t love dulce de leche??? If you don’t know what it is, you better make it to fall in love with it. Dulce de leche is slow cooked sweetened milk that has a smooth caramel flavor to it and also a smooth creamy texture. Moreover, it is super delicious all by itself so you can imagine how gorgeous it tastes when added to cupcakes 

DULCE  DE  LECHE RECIPE

Dulce de leche is available ready-made, however, most prefer making it at home. Normally we go through the whole process of heating milk and sugar for hours until it thickens and turn light brown, however, this process can go on for 6 to 8 hours or even longer depend on the quantity you making. However, I’m gonna be sharing with you a trick to making dulce de leche faster. 

Not only will it save you time but also yield the perfect flavor

How to make Dulce de Leche?

All you need is a can of condensed milk and also a big vessel. 

In a vessel place, an unopened can of condensed milk and fill the vessel with water slightly higher than the can (about 2 cms above the can) making sure the can is completely submerged in water. Place the vessel covered with a lid on the gas (high heat) until it comes to a boil. Simmer the can on medium heat for 2 to 3 hours depending on how thick and dark you’d like it to be.

Once done remove the can from the vessel and let cool completely. Moreover, do not attempt to open the can when hot. Make sure to cool it completely and then open it. Dulce de leche can also be made in a cooker, this is even faster, it takes about 40 mins. You can also find some videos on youtube that will help you make dulce de leche using these methods. 

Let’s get started with How To Make Dulce De Leche Cupcakes … 

Simply easy and truly loaded with dulce de leche. The cupcakes have dulce in the batter and then some more in the center and then some more in the buttercream frosting and then some more swirled on top of the cupcakes. Uff, I can’t wait for you to make these beauties. 

Follow the same steps to make a dulce de leche cake instead of cupcakes

Dulce de Leche Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

• 220 grams cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 140 grams castor sugar
• 70 grams salted butter
• 70 ml canola oil
• 1 egg
• 180 ml milk
• 3 tablespoons dulce de leche
• 1 tablespoon yogurt

For the cupcake filling

• 1/4 cup dulce de leche

For the dulce de leche frosting

• 200 grams salted butter, room temperature
• 380 grams superfine icing sugar
• 4-6 tablespoons dulce de leche

Instructions 

• In a bowl, combine the cake flour with the baking powder, mix well and set aside
• In another bowl, beat together butter & sugar until light & fluffy. To this mixture, beat in the egg, oil, milk, and yogurt.
• Fold in the flour and baking powder mixture and make sure there are no lumps.
• To the batter, add tablespoons of dulce de leche and mix well
• Pour the batter in cupcake liners making sure you do not fill more than 3/4th batter in each cupcake liner. Bake these at 180 degrees C for 20 mins or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
• Let cool completely and then using a nozzle or a melon baller make a hole in the center of the cupcake. Fill the cupcake center with dulce de leche.

For the Frosting

• Beat the butter until light and fluffy.
• Keep adding tablespoons of icing sugar a little at a time until all the sugar has been incorporated in the butter or until the buttercream frosting is of the right consistency
• Add the dulce de leche to this mixture and beat well
• Put this mixture in a piping bag and frost it onto the cupcakes
• Once frosted, swirl some dulce de leche onto the top of the cupcake to give it that complete look of a perfect cupcake

Notes

• If you’d like the frosting to have some more dulce de leche go on and add more. Do not add way too much, that would change the frosting consistency.
• Store these dulce cupcakes in the fridge, as they taste even better when chilled

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Another cupcake recipe you may find interesting is the COTTON CUPCAKE RECIPE 

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