Sunday, April 11, 2010
Strawberry Swirl Butter Cake
This is another simple yummy butter cake that the kids will love, its also a smaller mixture so its the perfect size for a treat at home, i got eight Texas sized cupcakes out of this batch.
Strawberry Swirl Butter cake:
90g Butter softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour
2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of jam - warm it in the microwave it will be easier to swirl around
Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line a muffin tin with cupcake cases - i got eight Texas sized cupcakes with this batch
beat butter till light and fluffy
add sugar, eggs, flour and milk, beat until the mixture is paler in colour
divide mixture among cupcake cases and smooth the tops then divide the jam over the tops of the cakes and swirl around with a skewer
bake cakes for 15 Min's
Butter Cream Frosting :
100g Butter @ room temp
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1-2 tablespoons of milk
A drop of strawberry essence
A drop of red food colouring
Beat the butter till pale and fluffy
Sift the icing sugar into the creamed butter then add the strawberry essence
add sufficient milk till you get a nice fluffy consistency
when your happy with your icing drop in a spot of red food colouring then gently stir in till you get a pink and white swirl effect
Sunday, April 4, 2010
No Bake Bubble Cakes
I was having some people over for dinner the other night and i just couldn't be bothered going hard out after the bad day i was having so we just had a easy BBQ and i made these simple Bubble cakes for a sweet treat after, they were yum and stress free!
No Bake Bubble Cakes:
5x Mars Bars (53g size)
50g Butter
3 1/2 cups of rice bubbles
200g Milk choc melts ( i used dark choc melts as thats all i had in the cupboard, milk choc would be nicer)
Line a 12x hole muffin tin with Texas cupcake paper cases
chop 4x Mars bars coarsely then pop into a medium saucepan with the butter, stir over a low heat until smooth
add rice bubbles to mars bar mixture and stir in
press mixture into cupcake cases
melt chocolate then spread on top of the cakes
slice the left over mars bar into 12 slices and pop on top of the cakes
pop in the fridge for 30 Min's to set
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