I love making cupcakes! But living in asia I didn't have an oven so I couldn't bake any. However, I'm now home so I thought I'd use the time to get in some cupcake baking.
Here's the first batch I made - they are a pretty basic recipe.
Ingredients
36 small paper patty cake cases, placed inside mini muffin tins (if you haven’t got mini tins just make them muffin-size instead)
3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup plain flour
1 tablespoon boiling water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
For the icing:
1 cup icing sugar
squeeze lemon juice for lemon icing (or water and a drop or 2 of colouring and flavour such as raspberry or peppermint)
1. Use a mixer to beat the sugar and eggs together until pale and thick. The mixture should leave a trail when you lift the beater out and will be nearly treble its original size. Allow 5-8 minutes depending on how powerful your beater is (or your forearms).
Here's the first batch I made - they are a pretty basic recipe.
Ingredients
36 small paper patty cake cases, placed inside mini muffin tins (if you haven’t got mini tins just make them muffin-size instead)
3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup plain flour
1 tablespoon boiling water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
For the icing:
1 cup icing sugar
squeeze lemon juice for lemon icing (or water and a drop or 2 of colouring and flavour such as raspberry or peppermint)
1. Use a mixer to beat the sugar and eggs together until pale and thick. The mixture should leave a trail when you lift the beater out and will be nearly treble its original size. Allow 5-8 minutes depending on how powerful your beater is (or your forearms).




3.Spoon the mixture into the prepared patty cases and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until golden and springy when gently pressed. Allow to cool completely before decorating.


4.To make icing
Combine the ingredients, using only as much liquid as you need to make a spreadable icing. Ice the top of each cupcake and decorate as desired.
A lolly pressed into the icing is the quickest possible decoration and the kids will be happy. Silver balls, sprinkles and ready-made edible decorations will also look lovely. I like to use the ready-made fondant icing 'Pettinice' (tinted, rolled and cut into shapes) for decorating my cup cakes.

The cupcakes were good - I can take the credit for the photo's but not the recipe. You can find it at www.healthyfoodguide.co.nz.
3 comments:
I'll gonna try this out, looks easy to do. thanks for sharing.
xoxo,
shineyglam
This recipe is great! love to hear what you think when you've made them^^
I love baking too! Haha, yeah it's not too common to have ovens in Asia unless the household happens to be reallly into baking! lol.
PS: your cupcakes look delishhhh!
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