Cupcake making

Last night Carmel, my fiancée was making cupcakes for her friend’s birthday and I decided to use this opportunity to create a photo project showing a step-by-step guide to making the cakes through the use of photos. Carmel actually makes it look so easy but I can assure you it’s not. It took a considerable amount of time to complete the finished project.

This is just the vanilla extract and the food colouring. The main ingredients include the following

plain flour

self raising flour

2 eggs

Caster Sugar

skimmed milk

unsalted butter

vanilla extract

icing sugar

Get your cupcake cases ready to start off

So basically you start off with butter and caster sugar

Mix it all around till you get a good consistency

When you add the 2 eggs, you get a smoother texture as you continually mix

At this stage we want to start mixing the two type of flour in the bowl; plain flour and self raising flour

Mix it together really good

Next we add skimmed milk and vanilla extract mixture

add the milk mixture as you are mixing everything together to ensure an even consistency

You are nearly finished the cake mixture. Just stir it around with a spoon to make sure there are no lumps and the consistency is even.

Carmel cleverly came up with the suggestion of spooning out the mixture into the preset cupcake cases using an ice-cream scoop to prevent any mess. Very clever!!

All the cases are not overfilled as the mixture will rise when cooking.

After we’ve added the cake tins to the oven, it’s time to start working on the icing.

Again we start with butter. Add in icing sugar and caster sugar which is carefully sieved.

We need to add more milk and vanilla extract solution

It’s worth it just to check on the cakes baking in the oven

After we get our constancy with the texture in the icing, then add in the food coloring. Notice who a small amount goes a long way

After about 30-35 mins, the cakes should be done

Place the icing mixture into a sandwich bag, or icing bag and carefully ice the mixture onto the cooked cakes, only after they have been left to cool down

Decorate with sprinkles of your choice and serve.

And there you have it. . . Homemade cupcakes