Coffee Macadamias Nut Cupcake

I am submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #13: Enjoy Cupcakes (November 2011), hosted by Min of Min's Blog.

Recipe

Ingredients
Crumble topping:
20g butter
20g brown sugar
20g flour
10g ground almond

Cake batter:
125g unsalted butter
90g caster sugar
1/4tsp salt
2 eggs
135g cake flour
1/2tsp baking powder
30g milk
2tsp instant coffee powder
50g macadamias nut (toasted and chopped)

Steps:
Crumble topping:
1. Sift flour in a bowl.
2. Mix sugar and ground almond into flour.
3. Use your fingers to rub butter into the flour mixture until it resemble bread crumb.
4. Cover and chill in the fridge.

Cake batter:
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Line muffin tin with paper casing and set aside.
3. Warm up milk and mix in coffee powder and set aside to cool.
4. Sift flour and baking powder together, set aside
5. Beat butter, sugar and salt until light and creamy.
6. Slowly add in egg and beat until well combined.
7. Fold in flour and coffee mixture alternately until well combined.
8. Lastly add in chopped nuts and mix well.
9. Spoon batter into paper casing until 70% full.
10.Sprinkle crumble topping over.
11.Bake in preheated oven for 20-25mins.
12.Remove cupcakes from tin and cool on a wire rack.