I love baking, but I just never seem to have the time to do it and if I do I have no one to eat it all so it gets wasted but this weekend I decided to make a smaller recipe! I saw these 'Funfetti Cupcakes' from Zoella's video (you can watch it here) and they looked like they would be good to make.
Ingredients:
- 125g Caster Sugar
- 125g Unsalted Butter
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1/4 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
- 125g Self Raising Flour
- 1/4 Teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons of Milk (I only need 1 tablespoon)
- As many sprinkles as you like!
Method:
I didn't follow the exact way that Zoe did, but here is what I did.
Firstly, I creamed the butter and sugar together. I made sure the butter was soft before this as it makes things much easier!
Next I added the Vanilla Extract and the 2 eggs. I mixed the mixture after I added the first egg and then again after I added the second. The mixture didn't look great at this point, but they turned out ok so I'm guessing that is what it was meant to look like haha.
I then added the flour and the bicarbonate of soda. I know sometimes you need to add the flour bit by bit but I didn't do that this time and it all mixed well. At this point I added a tablespoon of milk and found that the consistency of the mixture looked fine without anymore milk.
Finally, I added sprinkles. I added quite a few so the mixture looked like it had a lot in (the picture shows what I mean!)
I forgot to take a picture of them in the cases before putting them in the oven but I put the mixture in about 3/4 of the way up. This was actually too much as I only got 9 cakes out of it so I'd recommend putting less mixture in than I did!
For the icing I used this from Dr. Oetker which I really loved so I'd definitely recommend it unless you want to make your own icing, of course! To finish off the cupcakes, I added a few more sprinkles :)
The point of putting the sprinkles in the actual mixture was to give the cupcakes pops of colour, but unfortunately mine didn't do that. I'm not sure why! They tasted really nice though and people enjoyed them, so, oh well!
Hope you enjoyed this post and let me know if you want to bake these!
Jessica
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