Nadiya Hussain Mocha swirls recipe on Nadiya’s Family Favourites

Nadiya Hussain served up delicious Mocha swirls with dark chocolate filling and a sticky espresso coffee icing on Nadiya’s Family Favourites.

The ingredients for the filling: 1 tbsp unsalted butter, melted, 2 tsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp instant espresso powder (or coffee granules), 65g soft light brown sugar and 100g dark chocolate, finely chopped (or chocolate chips).

For the dough: 450g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
¼ tsp salt, 2 tbsp caster sugar, 100g unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for greasing, 1 tsp vanilla bean paste, 2 medium free-range egg yolks and 200ml whole milk, plus extra for glazing.

For the icing: 2 tbsp boiling water, 2 tsp instant espresso powder (or coffee granules), 1 tbsp unsalted butter, softened, 2 tbsp full-fat cream cheese and 125g icing sugar, sifted.


See Nadiya’s recipes in her book titled: Nadiya’s Family Favourites: Easy, beautiful and show-stopping recipes for every day from Nadiya’s upcoming BBC TV series, available from Amazon now.