Home Economics: Cupcakes!

During Friday on HEC, we made special cupcakes. These cupcakes were special because it was like playing tricks with your mind, what I meant by that is. For example, you would think that an orange coloured candy would taste like orange? Although, it actually tastes like raspberry. Anyways during the making of the cupcakes, my group and I had to think of a colour and a flavour that wouldn't match the colour. We chose the icing to be the colour blue, and taste like strawberry cream.

Afterwards, we had to decorate our three cupcakes and they had to be all similar. But not the same as your group members. I found it satisfying putting the icing on the cupcakes, but it was also a little difficult to make it smooth. When finished I had the idea of putting the letter v on the cupcake that represents the first letter of my name, I used string-like liquorice to make out the letter and then used m&ms to make a diamond shape around it. Then we were given some chocolate sprinkles to put in our cupcakes. The finished product tasted really good, and the icing tasted like strawberry. The cupcake itself was really fluffy the liquorice made it a bit chewy. Anyways, here is the recipe that we used as well as the directions on how to make them.

Recipe: Cup Cakes

• 125 g Margarine/ Butter
• 3/4 c Sugar
• 1 t Vanilla Essence 
• 2 eggs size 7
• 1 1/2 c Plain Flour
• 2 t Baking Powder
• 1/2 c Milk

Directions: 

1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon. 
2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture. 
3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg.
5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate. 
6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture off the wooden spoon. 
7. Add 1/3 sifted flour/ baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper. 
8. Repeat step 7 for the next 1/3 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not overmix. 
9. Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter. 
10. Carefully spoon cake batter evenly into 12 paper cases. 
11. Bake at 180oc for 7 min then turn oven to Fan Bake for a further 6-8 min

Recipe: Icing

• 50 g Margarine/ Butter.
• 100 g - 150 g Icing Sugar.
• Flavouring (Essence)

Directions: 

1. Cream together margarine, icing sugar and flavouring.
2. Spread icing onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with sprinkles if available. 

Remember: 

• To preheat oven
• Measure all ingredients accurately 
• Gently fold in flour/ baking powder (dry ingredients) alternately with the milk
• Do not over mix the cake batter
• Put the paper cases into cupcake or muffin tins before spooning in the cake batter

Pictures: Before, During and After.

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During

After