Just me...





I am a daughter,sister,wife,mum & nan.I have 3 wonderful children & 2 very precious grandchildren.I am always inspired by my family & one of my loves is baking& I love to bake for them.

Baking is therapy for the soul.....lol


~~ ~~ As a child my families menu consisted of two choices: Take it or Leave it ~~~Buddy Hackett



Sunday, November 28, 2010

Lemon cupcakes with lemon buttericing !!!



Made these today because I was too lazy to make a warm desert.....lol.

Had a full house for dinner ( usual sunday) so I was lazy when it came to thinking up a desert....lol






The usual recipe of......

8oz Plain Flour
8oz Caster sugar
8oz Real butter
1 Tsps of madagascar vanilla
4 Free range eggs
2 Tsp of baking powder
Zest of 1/2 a lemon

Method...
Beat butter until pale in colour
Add sugar & beat for 5 mins
Add eggs one by one & then add vanilla beat slowly,add zest of lemon.
Combine flour & baking powder together & sift into bowl,mix very slowly for
2 minutes only.
Scoop into your cases & bake at 155 in a fan oven for 15 min

Thanks for looking :)

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Cupcakes with white chocolate :)



Collected Darragh from school today & he wanted to bake some cakes so we made Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttericing & white chocolate decoration :)

We started with the basic chocolate cupcake mix  ( feeling of dejavu typing this ....lol)

Basic recipe for the cupcakes

8oz Plain Flour
8oz Caster sugar
8oz Real butter
1 Tsps of madagascar vanilla
4 Free range eggs
1 1/2 Tblsps organic Green & Blacks Cocoa powder
2 Tsp of baking powder



Method...

Beat butter until pale in colour
Add sugar & beat for 5 mins
Add eggs one by one & then add vanilla beat slowly
Combine flour,cocoa & baking powder together & sift into bowl,mix very slowly for
2 minutes only.
Scoop into your cases & bake at 155 in a fan oven for 15 min



Scoop out the centre of the cupcake



Using a large icing bag ( I made 48 so had lots of icing...lol) & a Wilton 2A icing tube



Pipe the icing into the centre & up on top of the cake in a small swirl motion...




Drizzel white chocolate over the cake & Voilla good enough to eat....lol



Thanks for visiting my blog :)

Jeanjeany