Last week one of the girls at work asked if I would make some cupcakes for her son’s school fair. I was very flattered of course and went home on Friday night to make cupcakes. I decided to do half girly and half for boys. I also made half vanilla, using the Crabapple bakery vanilla cupcake recipe that I have made before, and the other half, chocolate. Instead of using my favourite chocolate cupcake recipe, I tried out the Crabapple bakery recipe and it was great!! I need to use this book more often. The cake wasn’t too rich (which I thought was a good thing given my target market of kids!!!) and had a lovely light texture. Kids would love them, as would adults.
I decorated the boys’ cakes with blue icing and the girl’s with pink (of course!!). I used little blue wrappers for the boys and Disney princess wrappers for the girls, then decorated them with decorations that I made with coloured fondant (my new favourite way for decorating) – hearts and flowers for the girls and stars for the boys. I cant think of anything more imaginative to decorate boys’ cakes – any suggestions?
I was really pleased with how the cakes looked and apparently they sold like hot cakes!!!
Crabapple Bakery Chocolate cupcakes (I halved this recipe and got 30 cupcakes)
3 c flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp instant coffee
1 c hot water
1 c cocoa
1 c cold water
200g butter
2 ½ c castor sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
· Combine coffee and hot water, then add cocoa and cold water to make a thick liquid
· Cream butter & sugar, add eggs one at a time and then vanilla
· Sift together dry ingredients and fold into butter mix alternately with cocoa mixture
Spoon into cupcake cases and bake at 180c for about 18 minutes
10 comments:
They looked very pretty for the girls & cool for the boys, I'm not surprised they went down like hot cakes. Animal cutouts could work for boys or a car if there is such a shape to buy.Well done once again Tammy Lyn
The cupcakes look great Tammy and thanks for sharing the recipe. Just a typo in the cooking time :) I am guessing about 15 to 20 minutes? Thanks again for your great blog. Megan
thanks Megan!!! oops, I meant 18 minutes! I hav edited the post :0)
Hi Lyn, I cant get cutters small enough for those biy shapes. I have a very small dinosaur cutter, but even that was too big for the cupcakes.
These are sooo pretty - almost too good to eat.
I think the star shape is just fine for a boy's cake - it's the coloured icing that really makes them special. I can't remember the last time I made cupcakes and you've inspired me to try them now.
Hi Tammy! How do you think the cupcake recipe would freeze? I am making 100 cupcakes for a 21st on Saturday night and wondered if I could get started and freeze them ready for icing Saturday. Thanks for you help and for your great blog :)
Hi Megan
I think they would freeze well before they were iced. But, they keep well too, so you could probably make them even on Thursday and they would be ok. I am making cupcakes for a 16th birthday party on Saturday - I will make them Friday night and decorate them Saturday morning. thanks for your nice comments re: my blog!
Thanks Tammy! Will probably start making them Thursday as I have 100 to make :)
Hi Tammy, your blog is so beautiful. & the cupcakes do in fact look like they belong in a recipe book. Perhaps a cupcake recipe book?
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