As I continue my 2012 mission of baking cakes for all my close family and friend’s birthdays, baby showers, special events, etc. I mustn’t forget my lovely mum and lovely mum-in-law for Mother’s Day tomorrow.
I seem to be making a lot of cupcakes lately, I just love decorating them and practising my piping skills! So I’ve made two very different types of cupcake to cater for each mum’s taste.
As we were seeing my husband’s mum today, I made her cupcakes first. I used a Mary Berry recipe, but adapted it to put chocolate chips in the cake mix and used dairy free spread instead of butter and soya milk.
Ingredients:
100g softened butter
150g self raising flour
150g caster sugar
3 tablespoons milk
2 large eggs
half tsp vanilla extract
2 handfuls of milk chocolate chips
For the icing:
100g softened butter
200g sifted icing sugar
25g cocoa powder
chocolate chips/other swirls etc to decorate
1) Pre-heat oven to 180°C. Put muffin cases into a 12 hole muffin tin.
2) Measure all cupcake ingredients into large bowl and beat until blended and smooth. Spoon evenly between paper cases.
3) Bake in pre-heated oven for 20-25 mins. Make sure completely cold before icing.
4) For butter icing, beat together all ingredients for thick, creamy icing. Pipe or smooth over cupcakes and add decorations.
Here are my finished articles!
The chocolate chips made the cake really indulgent with all the chocolate butter icing too – just what my mother-in-law loves!
I used the free cake stand you get with this lovely new magazine – I wish I could afford to subscribe to receive this each week but will just stick to buying it once a month or so!
The next cakes I made today are ready for my mum tomorrow. They are apple crumble cupcakes. I saw this recipe on a friend’s blog and thought they looked delicious. My mum loves apple crumble so I thought these would be perfect.
You can find a brilliant step by step guide of how to make this on my friend’s blog here which I found really clear and easy to follow. I used non-dairy butter and milk, and had to add a bit more flour to the crumble topping due to the slightly wetter consistency of sunflower spread.
Here they are:
They’re so delicious with the fruity texture inside and the crumble topping.
It’s a bit unfair that I won’t be getting cakes made for me on Mother’s Day (unless my 22 month old daughter suddenly becomes a baking prodigy!) but I’ve already eaten one of each kind I made – just to check they tasted ok, so that will have to do!
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