As you probably know by now, I love love love butternut squash:-) Its tasty, versatile, readily available all year around and cheap too. My Mum makes the best butternut squash cookies ever and I will put up the recipe and photos for them some time soon. Meanwhile these tasty cupcakes adapted from VanillaGarlic recipe will do fine:-)

Enjoy:-)

Ingredients:

• 230 g Butternut squash
• 2 Eggs
• 100 g unsalted Butter, melted
• 100 g caster Sugar
• 100 g brown Sugar
• 100 self-raising Flour
• 30 g Walnuts, chopped roughly
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Ginger

Method:

• Peel and seed the squash and cut into chunks. Place the chunks into a bowl with boiling water and cook in the microwave on high power (800) for 10 minutes. Drain and pure in the food processor.
• Preheat the oven to 200 C/ Gas mark 6.
• In a medium bowl, mix the flour with baking powder, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and mix them with sugar and butter. Add the dry ingredients  and whisk until smooth.
• Add the squash pure and and walnuts to the mixture and mix well.
• Grease the cupcake tray with a bit of butter and line with cupcake liners.
• Pour the mixture into liners, filling more than half way.
• Bake the cupcakes in the oven for about 20 minutes until done.
• Top with chocolate chips and serve.