Coffee Cupcake with Cardamom

If you decide to make a cardamom coffee cupcake according to our recipe, keep in mind that the most difficult task will be to protect it from the attacks of the household immediately after baking. Otherwise, it will simply not come to soaking with syrup! But loved ones can be understood: the cupcake looks so tempting, and it smells so dizzy that it is really very hard to resist. Convince them that it is necessary, because then the tasting experience will be even better! This coffee cake with cardamom is so good that it is suitable even for a festive feast, especially during the long winter holidays.

Ingredients

• butter - 150 g
• flour - 240 g
• baking powder - 1 tsp.
• ground cardamom - on the tip of a knife
• sea ​​salt - on the tip of a knife
• instant coffee - 4 tbsp. l.
• drinking water - 2 tbsp. l. + 250 ml for syrup
• brown sugar - 400 g
• eggs - 3 pcs.
• sour cream - 150 g

Directions

1. Prepare the ingredients for the coffee cake batter. Cut the butter into small cubes and place in the mixer bowl. Leave it at room temperature for 30 minutes.
2. Sift the flour for the cake batter through a fine sieve with baking powder, cardamom and salt into a large bowl. Pour instant coffee (2 tablespoons) with boiling drinking water and let cool.
3. Set aside one tablespoon of soft butter; you will need it later to make the syrup that will saturate the cake. Beat the rest with a mixer with 200 g of sugar until a fluffy mass of a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
4. Add eggs one at a time to the sweet butter mass, beat thoroughly with a mixer after each. Pour in the cooled coffee. Add sour cream and stir until smooth.
5. Add flour mixture gradually. Knead the coffee cake dough. Transfer to a baking dish at least 24 cm in diameter and bake at 180 ° C for 30–35 minutes.
6. While the cake is in the oven, prepare the syrup. Pour 250 ml hot water into a saucepan, add the remaining sugar and coffee. Put in the butter. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar completely.
7. Let the finished coffee cake cool slightly in the mold, literally 5 minutes. Make deep holes with a toothpick and pour hot syrup over the item. Let cool and serve.