RAINBOW CUPCAKES

Hi,
So i was thinking of something to bake this week and i was thinking of doughnuts and then i was thinking of something colorful so i decided to do doughnut rainbow cupcakes.

Ingredients:

• 12 cupcakes(choose what you like but HERE is a good recipe)
• 150g trex/crisco
• 300g icing sugar
• 2 caps of milk
• vanilla
• 120g plain flour
• 5g baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 85g caster sugar
• drop of milk
• 1 egg
• 8g oil
• 50g strawberry jam or to your choice
• water
• icing sugar
• 7 rainbow colours

Method:

1. Make the doughnuts:Mix the flour,baking powder,salt,caster sugar,milk,egg and oil.You can either do this with a fork or a electric whisk.
   
2. Heat the doughnut maker up.
3. Add the trex and icing sugar and mix with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy and then add the milk to loosen it up a bit.
   
   
   
   
4. Next spoon or pipe the doughnut mixture into the maker for 3 minutes and repeat until all the mixture is used up.Then leave to cool.
5. Then take your cool cupcakes then take a bit of cake out the middle with a apple corer and replace it with jam.
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Next pipe in the fashion to form cloud shapes.
   
7. Next cut the doughnuts in half.
8. Next dye seven semi thick water icings the rainbow colours.
9. Then pipe the colours on the doughnut halves in a semi circle till the whole half doughnut is covered.
   
10. Once they have set add to the top of the cupcakes up right.
    

Fiz :D x

TEA CUPCAKES

Hi,

So the other day i really wanted to make some tea flavored cupcakes because i haven't baked in ages but doctor who was on soon and i was sort of rushing at the end and they turned out looking a bit amiture but i could of made them look a lot better with a bit more time.So i'm sure you would too.

Anyway on with the recipe because they tasted great...

Ingredients:

• 235g Butter
• 235g Brown sugar
• 235g Self raising flour
• 3 Eggs
• 1Tsp Vanilla extract
• 3 Tea Bags
• 5 tbsp Milk
• 1tsp baking powder

Equipment:

• Big bowl
• 2 Big spoons
• Measuring spoons
• Measuring scales
• Electric whisk
• Saucepan
• Spatula

Method:

1. Heat the milk and tea bags together gently until the milk has slightly changed colour.
   
2. Next cream the sugar and margarine together until pale and fluffy.
   
   
   
   
3. Then,add the eggs a little at a time and whisk between adding each bit.If it starts to split add a little of your measured flour.
   
   
   
   
4. Once all the egg is added add the flour and baking powder and fold through with the spatula in a figure 8.
   
5. Next add 3tbsp of the infused milk and mix.
   
6. Next evenly distribute between the chosen cases and bake for 15 minutes in a oven at gas mark 5.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. When out of the oven leave to cool for 15 minutes.
   
8. While they cool make icing by adding the remaining milk to 100g of icing sugar.
   
9. Finally add the icing to the cupcakes and add any toppings you like.
   
   
   
   

So as you can see i rushed at the end but up until then they looked nice and in the end they tasted so nice.

I hope you enjoyed and maybe have a go yourself .Thanks for reading.

Fiz :D x