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Licorice cupcakes

Ingredients  

- for the cupcakes

225g sugar
225g flour
225g soft margarine
4 eggs
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cardamom
1 tsp ground vanilla
1/2 tsp licorice syrup per cupcake


- for the cream  

125 g pure cream cheese
90 g margarine
1 tsp vanilla
250g powdered sugar
Liquorice powder



Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

For the dough, place the sugar, flour, margarine, eggs, baking powder, cardamom and vanilla in a mixing bowl and mix well.

Then pour the dough into the baking molds, filling the molds to a maximum of 2/3 full - be careful, the dough will rise a lot when baking!

Using a teaspoon, add about 1/2 teaspoon of licorice syrup to the dough in the molds and carefully "marble" it with a toothpick. (It's not about the look, it's just about ensuring that the syrup doesn't stick to the bottom of the cupcake in a big lump after baking.)

Then bake the cupcakes in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes until they are golden brown.

Remove from the oven and let cool.

For the cream , mix the cream cheese with the margarine, vanilla and powdered sugar.

Then use a syringe with an appropriate attachment to add the cream to the cupcakes.

Very carefully use a sieve to spread a tiny bit of licorice powder onto the cupcake cream.

The recipe makes about 16 to 18 licorice cupcakes.

[Translated from here.]