Contemporary cup cakes
By: Paul Young From: Good Food Live
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Contemporary cup cakes
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Contemporary cup cakes
Submitted by: EllieJ56257
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Contemporary cup cakes
Submitted by: EllieJ56257
- Prep time:
- 30 mins
- Cook time:
- 25 mins
- Serves:
- Makes 12 cup cakes
Bring out your inner child with Paul Young's creative recipe for cup cakes, fun to make and to eat
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Ingredients
- 150g Butter
- 150g Sugar
- 3 Eggs, beaten
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 150g self-raising flour, sifted
- 100ml Milk
For the frosting:
- 125g Butter, at room temperature
- 400g icing sugar
- 50ml Milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- food colouring, (blue, yellow, pink and lilac suggested by Paul Young)
To decorate:
- sprinkles
- silver balls
- hundreds and thousands
- sweets
- crystallised flower petals
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/ gas 4.2. First make the cup cakes. In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually mix in the beaten egg, mixing thoroughly between each addition to prevent the mixture from curdling. Mix in the vanilla extract.
4. Using a metal spoon, fold in the flour, then mix in the milk.
5. Divide the mixture among 12 paper cup cake cases and place in a 12 cup muffin tin or on a baking sheet.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and springy to the touch. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
7. Meanwhile, make the frosting. In a mixing bowl mix the butter gradually adding the icing sugar mixing very well until light and creamy.
8. Add the milk and vanilla extract, mixing well.
9. Divide the mixture into separate bowls to be coloured with your choice of colours. Using a cocktail stick, add the colours gradually until a pastel colour is reached.
10. Spoon generous amounts of frosting onto the cooled cup cakes and swirl, using a warm, wet knife.
11. Decorate the cup cakes using sprinkles, silver balls, hundreds and thousands, sweets or crystallised flower petals. Leave to set for 30 minutes.
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View all comments (4)Cakes were easy to make a little bit to much icing but over all the cakes were lovely.
I dont understand the comments below - Ive made these cup cakes many times, every time i do everyone loves them!!!
Only one thing - the icing recipe is too big, i usually halve it!!
Anaemic looking cakes. Not brilliant. I think too much milk was added.
I made these at the weekend and wasn't impressed. The Cakes were very buttery. They were not fluffy but seemed greesy, not sure if that was due to my cooking technique.
The Frosting was nice but there was way too much of it for 12 cakes.
I will not be making these again.