John Whaite served up delicious chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel and whipped chocolate ganache on John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen.

The ingredients for the whipped ganache are: 250g milk chocolate, roughly chopped and 400ml double cream.

For the cake batter: 125g plain flour, 40g cocoa powder, ½ tsp baking powder, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, ¼ tsp fine salt, 100g dark brown muscovado sugar, 50g golden caster sugar, 50g sunflower oil, 120ml water, 60g whole milk, 60g full-fat natural yoghurt and 1 large egg.

To fill and decorate: 397g can Carnation caramel/dulce de leche, ¼ tsp fine salt, 20g dark chocolate, coarsely grated, Sea salt flakes and Gold leaf.

See recipes by John in his book titled: John Whaite Bakes At Home available from Amazon now.