Ingredients
4 oz Caster Sugar
4 oz Soft Margarine
2 Medium Eggs
4 oz Self Raising Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Strawberry Jam (sieved)
To Decorate
2 oz unsalted butter ( room temperature)
11oz of sifted icing Sugar.
4oz of full fat cream cheese.
Some pink food colouring.
Method
1. First preheat the oven to gas mark 4 and line a muffin tray with 12 cases.
2. Then put all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl(except for the jam.)
3. Add 1/2 tsp of jam to each case and swirl it all up.
4. Then leave to cool.
For the frosting
1. Beat the butter until it is nice and soft and slowly start to add the icing sugar until the mixture is light.
2. Next add the cream cheese and whisk until fluffy.
3. Divide the mixture in half and the beat the food colouring into one half.
4. Then fill a piping bag half with Strawberry cream and half with plain cream. And pip swirls onto the cakes.
5. Your cakes are now ready but make sure the cakes are kept in an airtight tin for three days so they keep nice and fresh.
That is my favourite Strawberry swirl Cupcake recipe.
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Cupcake Highlight of the Week!!!!!!!!!
What Cupcake do you want me to do for next weeks post, comment down below. Thats been this weeks, Cupcake Highlight of the week.
My Favorite Oreo Recipe
I hope you like it and decide to make it your self at home.
Ingredients;
For the cupcakes you will need;
6 Oreo biscuits
115g of unsalted butter, softened.
115g of Caster Sugar
1/2 tsp of Vanilla Extract
100g Self-Raising Flour
20g Coco Powder
2 large eggs (beaten)
1tsp of Milk
Now to make the frosting;
50g of Butter Softened
80g Cream Cheese, cold
175 Icing Sugar
And finally 6 Oreo Biscuits.
To Decorate
11 mini Oreos
Method
1. For the Cupcakes; You should ask an adult to preheat the oven to 180c/160fan/gas mark 4.
2. Line a muffin tray with 11 (or more) paper cases.
3. Seperate the Oreos and place half of them into the cases (at the bottom.) If you have any cream filling face it upwards.
4. Then cream together the sofented butter and caster sugar, also along with the vanilla extract, until it's pale and fluffy.
5. Next sift in the flour and Coco powder. Then add the two beaten eggs and make sure you mix well taking care. Stop once all of the dry ingrediants are well incorparated.
6. After that add the milk and then beat briefly to combine.
7. Then divide the mixture evenly beatween the cupcakecases.
8. Bake for 22-25 minutes.
9. For the frosting; Place the six large oreos into a foodprossecer and then wizz into crumbs. Alternitivly, you place the oreos into a plastic bag and then smash with a rolling pin.
10. Next rub the sofened butter into the icing sugarusing the back of a wooden spoon. Do the same with the cream cheese.
11. Once the icing sugar has been incorpareted, the whisk with an electiric mixer until light and fluffy.
12. Gently fold the oreo crumbs into the frosting, being carefull not to over mix. If the frosting is a little runny at this stage, place in the fridge to chill for 15 minutes.
13. To Decorate: Cover each cupcake with the frosting and finish with a little oreo.
So that is my favorite oreo recipe so comment down below what cupcakes you would like me to do next. Bye.
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Here's Ellie
Hi my name is Ellie and my blog is all about cupcakes. It is about cupcakes because I have a special passion for them. I especially like all the creative and fun cakes. Baking isn't a hobby for me its more of a gift. Baking has been past down in my family for seven years. The gift isnt something god gave to me its something I practice nearly every day. The cakes on this blog our wild and creative and funky.
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