Desserts

Hugo Cupcakes

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 1 hr
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 1 hr 25 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

For the dough:

  • 80 g butter, soft
  • 120 g suar
  • 250 g flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 lime (s) (organic), the zest it
  • 2 egg (s)
  • 200 ml sparkling wine
  • 140 ml milk
  • 2 tablespoon syrup (elderflower syrup), to taste
  • 1 tablespoon mint, chopped
  • 1 pinch (s) salt

For the frosting:

  • 150 g butter, soft
  • 100 g cream cheese
  • 100 g powdered suar, sifted
  • 2 tablespoon syrup (elderflower syrup)
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 0.5 ½ lime (s) (organic), the zest it

For decoration:

  • lime (s)
  • Mint
  • Sugar (green decorative sugar)
Hugo Cupcakes
Hugo Cupcakes

Instructions

  1. Beat the butter and sugar until frothy. Sift and mix the flour and baking powder, mix the lime zest, salt and chopped mint into the flour. Mix the eggs, sparkling wine, milk and syrup and stir alternately with the flour mixture into the butter and sugar mixture.
  2. Put the dough in the muffin tin and bake in the preheated oven at 180 ° C for about 20-25 minutes. Then let it cool down well.
  3. For the frosting, stir the butter with the powdered sugar until creamy. Mix the elderflower syrup, lime juice and lime zest with the butter and sugar mixture. Beat the cream cheese until smooth and carefully stir into the buttercream (do not beat).
  4. Sprinkle the frosting on the cooled cupcakes and decorate with a straw, a lime wedge, a mint leaf and green sugar crystals.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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