Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Raspberry & Cream butterfly adorned cupcakes

Wafer Butterflies

Dr Oetker recently sent me some Wafer Butterflies, which enable bakers of all abilities to instantly make simple cupcakes and desserts more colourful and beautiful. With guests due round for afternoon tea on Saturday I decided on Saturday morning to quickly rustle up some raspberry and cream cupcakes in Jane Means pretty striped cupcake cups and adorn them with the pretty wafer butterflies.

Here's how...

Gluten-free Raspberry & Cream butterfly adorned cupcakes (makes 13 cake cup cupcakes)

Ingredients
  • 2 large eggs
  • 75g gluten-free self raising flour
  • 75g gluten-free plain flour
  • 125g unsalted butter, softened
  • 150g (2/3 cup)caster sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 60ml(1/4 cup) milk
  • 13 frozen raspberries

Cooking instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 160-180 deg C.
  2. Place baking cups on a baking tray.
  3. Beat flour, butter, milk and eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer until the mixture turns a pale colour.
  4. Divide mixture between cases.
  5. Push one frozen raspberry in to each batter filled case
  6. Bake for between 25-30 minutes until cakes bounce back when lightly pressed
  7. Place cakes on wire rack to cool.

Butterfly cupcake

To decorate (for 13 cake cup sized cakes) Ingredients


Instructions
  1. Place the cream and icing sugar in a bowl and whisk till light and fluffy
  2. Fill piping bag fitted with a star nozzle
  3. Pipe a swirl of cream icing on top of the cakes
  4. Adorn each cake with a wafer butterfly

Butterfly decorated cupcakes

Butterfly cakes

Raspberry & Cream cupcake

Yummy!

Have a sweet day!

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Monday, 20 May 2013

No 44 - Paper Napkins

Paper Napkins

Kitchen shelf

Pierre Hermé  Macarons

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Hello Sweets!

Samuel & James

Hello sweets! I hope you all had a lovely weekend.

It seems like ages since I properly checked in on all of you. I have been so busy of late working on my book that is due to be published at the beginning of 2014, helping my little sister out with her wedding preparations and a whole heap of projects that annoyingly I can't tell you about, yet!

I still have a ton of bits left to do on my book and some final preparations for my little sisters wedding amongst other things, so I apologise in advance if I am late on replying to your emails and comments. But know that I appreciate you all and I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as I can, hopefully with lots of exciting news!

In the meantime I will be sharing how I made my nephew Samuel's wigwam, floor quilt and deckchair slings. A few yummy recipes, a couple of crafty projects and a whole heap of pretty organizing ideas.

Have a sweet day!
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