Home Economics | Kiwi Baker | Vanilla Cupcakes! |

On Friday our group was tasked to make vanilla cupcakes as part of our kiwi baker. Our group contained Lars, Elisha Mae, Janel, Minseo, and I, we were all comfortable during the making of our product. We were familiar with making the cupcakes because we have made them before.  However, it looked like we did something wrong because when we started creaming the butter and added the eggs, it started to sort of change texture and made clumps of the butter. Anyway, we kept proceeding and get our work done.

When we placed the cupcakes in the oven and finished cooling, it was time to decorate it. Although there was not that much time left so we just put the icing on top swiftly, so it didn't look that nice. When we finished with the icing we tasted 1 cupcake each, the top part of the cupcake was a bit crispy but when we got to the middle part it was very fluffy.

The sweetness of it was on point, it wasn't too sweet nor really sweet. Overall the cupcake was really good, and I also got some feedback from my stakeholder which were my brothers.

All of us worked well together, and carefully did the steps as we have planned. We all communicated well as a team and finished our product on time.

Feedback from Stakeholder:
The cupcakes were really good, and not too sweet. I also liked how there was a bit of crunchiness on the cupcake but, anyway it was really good. 

Our Plan:

Vann - Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder - Method 3 - Method 10

Lars - Butter, Milk - Method 1 - Method 6 - 

Elisha Mae - Sugar - Method 2 - Method 8

Janel - Plain Flour - Method 4 - Method 7 - Method 11

Minseo - Eggs - Method 5 - Method 9 

Vann: Will get the 1 t Vanilla Essence and 2 t Baking Powder. He will also do both methods 3 and 10. 

Lars: Will get the butter and the milk. He will also do both method 1 and 6.

Elisha Mae: Will get the sugar, she will do method 2 and 8.

Janel: Will get the plain flour, she will do methods 4, 7, and 11. She will also help Minseo with the folding. 

Minseo: Will get the eggs and do method 5 as well as method 9 with Janel’s help. 

Estimated time is 30 minutes 

Ingredients:

• 125g margarine/ butter
• 1/4 c sugar
• 1 t vanilla essence
• 2 eggs (Size 7)
• 1 1/2 c plain flour
• 2 t baking powder
• 1/2 c milk

 Method:

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 in 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 over mix.
9.  Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter.
10. Carefully spoon the cake batter evenly in the 12 paper cases.
11. baked at 180 degrees for 7 minutes then turn oven to fan bake for a further 6-8 minutes.