Blackberry Cakes
Easy Blackberry cakes made with foraged blackberries. A yummy, frugal bake for the cake tin!
Carrot Cupcakes
Easy and delicious Carrot Cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting. The perfect recipe for using up carrots in your vegetable rack. It's the lime zest takes them to a whole new level!
Dreamy Vanilla Cupcakes with a Buttercream Frosting
Debenhams kindly asked me to try out some products from their baking range recently. I said yes of course and a lovely big parcel arrived last weekend full of baking goodies including numerous icing tools, palette knives, a pie bird (something I’ve always wanted and a blackberry and apple pie is definitely on the list to make this weekend!), a rather cool retro looking flour sifter, a sugar shaker, lots of pretty cupcake cases and some icing bags with different size nozzles. The first recipe I made, trialling some of the products, were these Dreamy Vanilla Cupcakes with a super smooth buttercream frosting. I was really keen to try out this icing bag and nozzle kit and was impressed with how well the icing went on! They didn’t look half bad given I’ve never been that good at icing cakes. I usually leave cake decoration to my Mother in Law who is a chef and cake decorator extraordinaire…but I’m very tempted to have a go at some more intricate icing designs using some of ...
Vanilla Raspberry Cupcakes
It's my birthday today - booooo! I think I'm quite unique in that the birthday blues started early for me....when I turned 20 to be exact. I remember being an utterly miserable sod at my birthday meal, which was being held in a lovely little seafood restaurant with close family and friends. My Mum sensed there was something up (she always knows when there is something up) and when I told her the reason for my rather odd behaviour she laughed and told me to 'enjoy the journey and have a glass of wine'. I pondered what she said that night and that little conversation has stuck with me over the years. Although I'm still not keen on big 'do's', I do try and make more of an effort now for the sake of the kids. I'm generally not a miserable introverted sod any other day of the year, just in case you're wondering...and by the way I'm still quite a few years off 40 so I really shouldn't have this mindset at all. Onwards and upwards as they say...
Christmas Chestnut Cupcakes
Last Christmas I bought some tins of Creme de Marron (sweet chestnut puree) but unfortunately they did no more than linger at the back of my baking cupboard.... until today that is. Getting into the Christmas spirit I was flicking through Delia's Happy Christmas this morning when I spotted a recipe for chestnut cupcakes using creme de marrons. I decided to adapt Delia's recipe a little bit to suit what ingredients I already had in the house and came up with these little treasures. If you're not keen on mince pies or heavy fruit cake, these would make a great sweet alternative. CHESTNUT CUPCAKES | Serves: 8 | Prep Time: 15 Minutes | Cook Time: 30 Minutes | Total Time: 45 Minutes | Ingredients: 150g Creme de Marron 110g Soft Butter 2 Eggs, beaten 110g Plain Flour 11/2tsp Baking Powder 4 TBSP Milk Topping: 100g Cream Cheese 100g Sour Cream 100g Creme de Marron (handily creme de marron usually come in 250g tins) ...
Cute Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting
I haven't done much baking recently (other than the shortbread ) so when Emma offered to send me some Silverspoon cakecraft decorations, flavourings and colourings to try, I jumped at the chance. I used my basic cupcake mixture in these strawberry cupcakes and flavoured it with a few drops of Silverspoon natural strawberry flavouring, giving it a very subtle strawberry flavour. I added some more strawberry flavouring to the cream cheese frosting and sprinkled some freeze dried strawberries on top. CUTE CUPCAKES WITH STRAWBERRY FROSTING Baking Yield: 12 Author: Beth Sachs Print Recipe Pin it With Image Without Image Strawberry Cupcakes Strawberry cupcakes with a strawberry frosting prep time: 15 mins cook time: 20 mins total time: 35 mins ingredients: 3 Large Eggs 250g Caster Sugar 100g Butter 100ml Milk 250g Plain Flour 2 TSP Baking Powder 1/2 TSP Silverspoon Strawberry Flavouring Frosting: 60g Butter, softene...
