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Forgot to add this to my main recipe post, but this is the cupcakes cut in half - I just love how gorgeous the jam looks tucked inside the fluffy sponge cake!
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Showing posts with label cupcakes. Show all posts
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Victoria Sponge Cupcake
Forgot to add this to my main recipe post, but this is the cupcakes cut in half - I just love how gorgeous the jam looks tucked inside the fluffy sponge cake!
Recipe: Classic Victoria Sponge Cake & Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
I think that the Victoria sponge cake was the very first thing I ever learned to bake as a child and baking it now always reminds me of weekend afternoons spent meticulously weighing and measuring ingredients and then taking the mixing bowl to my Dad to get his help with beating the butter and sugar together.
Then I would wait (impatiently!) for the cake to cool before slathering it with jam and making a soft, fluffy buttercream filling.
There were a lot of times when I just couldn’t wait any longer and the filling would go inside a still slightly warm cake which, of course, melted the buttercream and more often than not would cause the top half of the cake to slowly slide off the bottom half so I had to push it back on and squish it down gently to stop it happening again.
Today, instead of making an entire round cake, I doubled the mixture and made Victoria sponge cupcakes.
Once they were cooled, I hollowed out a small well in the middle of each cupcake, filled that with strawberry jam and then topped it all off by piping vanilla buttercream frosting over the top of the jam filled wells.
Then I would wait (impatiently!) for the cake to cool before slathering it with jam and making a soft, fluffy buttercream filling.
There were a lot of times when I just couldn’t wait any longer and the filling would go inside a still slightly warm cake which, of course, melted the buttercream and more often than not would cause the top half of the cake to slowly slide off the bottom half so I had to push it back on and squish it down gently to stop it happening again.
Today, instead of making an entire round cake, I doubled the mixture and made Victoria sponge cupcakes.
Once they were cooled, I hollowed out a small well in the middle of each cupcake, filled that with strawberry jam and then topped it all off by piping vanilla buttercream frosting over the top of the jam filled wells.
Friday, 25 October 2013
Recipe: Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes
Anyone that knows me knows that I am a chocolate freak.
Seriously.
I’ve tried giving it up and all that does is make me cranky. So naturally I needed a really good chocolate cupcake recipe.
I think this one has it all – it’s chocolaty but not overly sweet, it’s squidgy but not too doughy and the addition of the roughly chopped hazelnuts gives the whole cake a lovely bite and texture.
When I made these I experimented with a coffee frosting that went really well with the rich chocolate flavor of the cupcakes. Unfortunately because it was an experiment I don’t have a recipe for the frosting, but next time I make these I will make sure to write down how I make it.
But just look at them…I had to draw on deep reserves of willpower to not eat the lot in one sitting.
Seriously.
I’ve tried giving it up and all that does is make me cranky. So naturally I needed a really good chocolate cupcake recipe.
I think this one has it all – it’s chocolaty but not overly sweet, it’s squidgy but not too doughy and the addition of the roughly chopped hazelnuts gives the whole cake a lovely bite and texture.
When I made these I experimented with a coffee frosting that went really well with the rich chocolate flavor of the cupcakes. Unfortunately because it was an experiment I don’t have a recipe for the frosting, but next time I make these I will make sure to write down how I make it.
But just look at them…I had to draw on deep reserves of willpower to not eat the lot in one sitting.
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