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Cupcake Recipe
This cupcake recipe has no butter in it! In fact, the only fat in these yummy treats comes from the eggs.
Ingredients
For the cakes:
* 36 small paper patty cake cases, placed inside mini muffin tins (if you haven’t got mini tins just make them muffin-size instead)
* 3 eggs
* 1/2 cup castor sugar
* 3/4 cup plain flour
* 1 tablespoon boiling water
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
For the icing:
* 1 cup icing sugar
* squeeze lemon juice for lemon icing (or water and a drop or 2 of colouring and flavour such as raspberry or peppermint)
* lollies, sprinkles, silver balls or other appropriate decorations
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180°C.
To make cakes:
Use a mixer to beat the sugar and eggs together until pale and thick. The mixture should leave a trail when you lift the beater out and will be nearly treble its original size. Allow 5-8 minutes depending on how powerful your beater is (or your forearms).
Using a metal spoon, fold in half the flour. When that is incorporated, fold in the remaining flour. Lastly, add the hot water and vanilla.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared patty cases and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until golden and springy when gently pressed. Allow to cool completely before decorating.
To make icing:
Combine the ingredients, using only as much liquid as you need to make a spreadable icing. Ice the top of each cupcake and decorate as desired.
A lolly pressed into the icing is the quickest possible decoration and the kids will be happy. Silver balls, sprinkles and ready-made edible decorations will also look lovely. I like to use the ready-made fondant icing ‘Pettinice’ (tinted, rolled and cut into shapes) for decorating my cup cakes.
To make butterfly cakes:
Allow cupcakes to cool completely, then use a sharp knife to slice a wedge out of the middle of each cake. Place a dab of jam or lemon curd in the crevasse, then cut the wedge in half through the middle and stick the two pieces into the jam so they stick out like wings. Dust with icing sugar. While they don’t really look like butterflies, they do look pretty and kids are attracted to them.
Recipe Information
Portions: makes 36
Time to make: 25 minutes plus decorating
Total cost of all ingredients: $1.79 / $0.05 per serve
* Dairy-free
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I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE CUPCAKESSSSSSSS! Posted by Superpam "on" 05/29 "at"07:31 PM |
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yummmy they look so cut too Posted by iceream "on" 04/25 "at"02:22 PM |
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Yum! I’m soo gonna make these! yumm yummm yummmm!   Posted by Mayghan "on" 03/16 "at"04:23 PM |
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OMG i made them with some friends and they were AMAZING!!!! mmm…............ everyone should give them a shot Posted by 51220 "on" 02/20 "at"03:36 PM |
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mmmmmm, finally a cupcake recipe that even I can’t get wrong!! And they taste great to Posted by nelson222 "on" 02/20 "at"02:54 PM |
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I love making cupcakes especially with different coloured icing and decorations! om nom nom Posted by Taydims "on" 02/14 "at"06:07 PM |
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Did anyone note the actual cooking time? I always get stumped when it says 10-15 minutes. 5 minutes difference can make or break your baking and I don’t like to open the oven door too much to check. I’m definitely going to give this recipe a go, maybe will try for 12 minutes first time round… Posted by NoRegrets "on" 02/14 "at"02:54 PM |
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I think I will make some of these for my friends for Valentines day! Yum! Posted by carli "on" 02/13 "at"02:52 PM |
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YUM! those cupcakes look amazing, so have to try this recipe out. Posted by suniasunshine "on" 02/13 "at"02:47 PM |
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my friends call me the cupcake queen because i make such good cupcakes! i also took part in the 2009 SPCA cupcake day and made tons of individual animal cupcakes and raised over $150 for the SPCA Posted by Chica96 "on" 02/13 "at"11:03 AM |
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They look so good! I want some Posted by 54338 "on" 02/12 "at"12:26 PM |
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They sound so yum I want some haha Posted by 54338 "on" 02/12 "at"12:15 PM |
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If you really want to have healthier baking look up a vegan cupcake recipe, or even just use an egg replacer for this recipe. Even more guilt free as there’s no worry about the condition the hens are kept in, though I’m sure you all buy free range anyway. Posted by Larawr "on" 02/11 "at"09:53 PM |
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YUMMY! cupcakes are sooo good! i’m totally going to use this recipe =) Posted by BekaAshley "on" 02/11 "at"04:56 PM |
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yum! i love cupcakes but they usually are so bad for you! i must try these (: Posted by alicia.s "on" 02/09 "at"08:22 PM |
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These sound sooo yummy! Posted by makeupper "on" 02/09 "at"03:28 PM |
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Made these last night… every one loved them and are super easy xxx Posted by Ellie_xox "on" 02/06 "at"02:43 PM |
Best of the rest
