I had a week off this week and on my last day I decided to make some chocolate and orange cupcakes.
I used a recipe out of my Primrose bakery cook book.
You use fresh orange juice, orange zest and melted dark chocolate.
After zesting and jucing the orange by hand, my hands did look as if I was applying some sort of Essex style fake tan, I also got orange juice on my t-shirt the one time I decide not to wear my apron. So oranges can be tricky.
I was a little concerned at first as the mixture was like a mousse and I wasn't sure that it would be light enough for a sponge.
They took a bit longer than usual to cook about half an hour whereas usually they take about 15-20 minutes.
However, they came out really well. I personally couldn't taste the orange in them but other people have said they could and how nice they were.
The icing it just chocolate and I had some chopped milk chocolate left over from my failed macaroons so decided to use that on the top just to get rid of it really.
I would recommend these easy to make and a nice change from just chocolate.
Another weekend another opportunity to make some yummy (proper) cupcakes.
Again from Primrose Bakery I choose Peanut Butter Cupcakes.
Very, very rich but yummy! You start with smooth peanut butter, butter and dark brown sugar, straight off you can tell these are not going to be healthy.
But cupcakes now and again don't hurt and when they are this delicious where is the harm.
You mix that all then add the flour, baking power and vanilla essence, then mix it all up.
I will admit it does look like a massive bowl full of peanut butter.
Leave to cook, in the book they suggest chocolate icing with peanut butter drops. Instead I chose to mix the smooth peanut butter and the chocolate icing together. Then added white and milk chocolate curls.
Delicious!
Pre-icing:
I finished work early today and wanted to do some baking, so I thought I would do some easy ones.
So I picked the Mars Bar Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery Cupcake book, the ingredients butter, cornflakes, golden syrup and of course Mars Bars. Basically you melt syrup and butter, add chopped up Mars bars then add the cornflakes.
Put them in the cases, let them cool add the butter icing and all done.
However, one word of warning they are very sickly, I think I should have added more cornflakes to the mixture to make it less sickly.
I suppose really they aren't really cupcakes no baking involved but I didn't burn anything so all good. I would recommend.
Happy Mother's Day!
As a special treat for my mum (and my boyfriend's mum) we decided to bake some cupcakes. Also it has been a long time since I baked some cakes.
We decided to bake some chocolate and banana ones from the Primrose Bakery book.
The mixture didn't have milk in it or cocoa powder so I was a little concerned about it being chocolatey, also it didn't seem wet enough. Then I added the banana and chocolate and bang it all seemed to come together.
I will admit that they are the best ones I have made, you can taste the banana but not see it and the chips in the cake didn't sink to the bottom so it was just perfect.
Also there was to much cake mixture so we made a small, thin cake as well. Delicious!
It has all been a bit quiet on the cupcake front recently, just not had the time to make any.
This weekend however I had a lot of free time and also a new cupcake book - The Primrose Bakery which I got for only £5 from WHSmiths.
The first one I chose from the book - raspberry cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream icing.
You put raspberry jam in the cake mixture so it looks like raspberry ripple and then take out the middle and fill in with jam.
The icing is made with double cream, melted white chocolate, icing sugar, butter and vanilla essence.
They are delicious and topped with a couple of raspberries.
