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 :)

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