Sweet Jams

I love the Edmond's cookbook, just about everything i make out of that book comes out awesome and to be honest when i know of a recipe that works i usually stick to it .

I use it quite often as a base cake for example my Perky Narna cupcakes . this time Ive used jam and simply piped it into the cupcake, it would be great for the kids just a plain and simple treat.

125g butter softened

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1/2 cup of caster sugar

2 eggs FREE RANGE - happy chickens lay happy eggs!

1 cup of plain flour

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1/4 cup of milk

cream the butter, vanilla and sugar till light and fluffy. add your free range eggs one at a time beating them well into the mixture, sift in the flour and baking powder together and fold into the mixture, stir in the milk then give it a good beat with your electric mixer - i LOVE my electric mixer its only a wee thing but it does the trick! spoon into 12 large cupcake cases in a Texas muffin tin , bake for 15 Min's

once the cupcakes have cooled grab your trusty piping bag and use that long weird piping tip that you never seem to use and fill with you favourite jam i use good ol Craig's jam, push the tip slowly into the middle of you cupcake till you get about halfway in the cake and squeeze as you pull the tip out.

i used fondant to decorate, i simply added pink food colouring to my fondant then cut out 12x circles then 12x hearts in a red fondant to get your hearts to stick i just used a bit of water but you could use a little butter icing if you want