Decadent Millionaires Shortbread Cupcakes Recipe with Gold Leaf! | Cupcake Jemma

We're back with another delicious cupcake recipe that will blow your socks off - not literally OBVS, but figuratively - YES! The Millionaires Shortbread Cupcakes are honestly the stuff of dreams, buttery shortbread biscuit base, decadent chocolate mud cake sponge filled with homemade butterscotch sauce, topped with butterscotch Swiss Meringue Buttercream, studded with shortbread biscuits and dunked in dark chocolate - finished with a little gold leaf because why not!?

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BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE
115g Light Soft Brown Sugar
115g Unsalted Butter
300g Double Cream
½ tsp Vanilla Extract
Pinch of Sea Salt

CHOCOLATE MUDCAKE SPONGE
100g Crushed Shortbread Biscuits 
15g Melted Butter
1 tsp Golden Syrup
100g Unsalted Butter
50g Brewed Coffee
125g Dark Chocolate (70%)
75g Buttermilk
45g Vegetable Oil
2 Eggs
215g Caster Sugar
150g Plain Flour
30g Cocoa Powder
¼ tsp Bicarb
¼ tsp Sea Salt

BUTTERSCOTCH SWISS MERINGUE BUTTERCREAM
150g Egg Whites
300g Caster Sugar
360g Soft Unsalted Butter
180-200g Butterscotch Sauce

TO FINISH
4-5 Shortbread Biscuits, chopped into small nuggets
60-80g Dark (54%) Chocolate, melted and cooled a little
Gold Leaf (optional)

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