Hello everyone..
Since it's nearly Valentines Day, I've created some delicious sweet treats for the occasion. The cupcakes are plain sponge flavouring with vanilla butter icing on top but when you bite into the base of the cupcake you see pink and plain sponge marble so follow this recipe and you could create them yourself!
What you will need:
4 1/2oz butter/margarine
4 1/2oz Demerara sugar/brown sugar
4 1/2oz self-raising flour
3 eggs (2 if large)
1tspn baking powder
red food colouring
Dr.Oetker vanilla icing (squirty tube)
red cake decoratives (red sprinkles)
Oven:
180 degrees Celsius
bake time: 25 minutes
How to make the sponge mix:
Weigh out your sugar, flour and butter and add them to a mixer with your teaspoon of baking powder and eggs. Mix everything together until the mixture has no visible lumps of flour, sugar or butter in it. Add two-three drops of red food colouring to the mixture and stir the mixture in a figure of eight with a knife. This will make the marble effect, so don't jus stir it normally because you'll not get the right effect. Then evenly scoop the mixture into your cupcake cases and bake for 25 minutes. They're done if you poke a knife into the top and it comes out clean.
Leave to cool for 10-15 minutes!
Decorate the cupcakes:
First, grab a plate so that you can squeeze a tiny bit of icing out of the tube before piping. This makes sure the tube is ready to be used on your cupcakes and has broken the seal.
Now pipe the icing from the outside of the cupcake around until you reach the middle. Sprinkle some red sugar on the top and you have your Valentines themed cupcakes!
Have fun baking, let me know if you re-create them!
Thank you for reading,
