Scottish tablet cupcakes

Looking at my 'things to bake' list yesterday I realised something - they all contained fruit. A very summery list and yesterday was not very summery at all here in Ayrshire. So I turned my attention to an experiment I'd been meaning to have for quite some time now; tablet cupcakes.

For those of you unfamiliar with tablet (poor souls!), it is basically a crumblier, more buttery fudge. No chewing required as it melts in the mouth.

It is something I have grown up with and is traditionally handed out to kids at Halloween and is more often than not homemade. So I have something to confess! I bought this tablet. I know, shameful. But I justify it because this recipe was an experiment and making tablet can be time consuming, messy and I don't have a method which makes less than about oh... 50 squares?! But yes, terrible.

Anyway, I pared the tablet with a vanilla cake as tablet is incredibly sweet and doesn't need a competing flavour. For the frosting I ground up one bar of the tablet into a regular buttercream recipe and then added little chunks and mixed in lightly just before I frosted the cakes themselves. The result was an very sweet treat. One per person seems to be the limit before a sugar coma hits.

Also, I have a Twitter page and I would love more bakers/cake eaters to follow!