Cupcakes anyone?

Made my favourite cupcake recipe! Never fails on me! =D I decided i would go out and go get some nice cupcake papers, i always see lovely cupcakes with lovely papers.. and its been awhile since ive used them too (horray for less washing up!!).. so i thought why not? maybe i will go out and check the cake shop!

So i did, i walked out of the shop with a little star chocolate mould, pink powder food colouring and some nice pink/purple cases and ended up being over charged by $1.30! i guess the guy decided to give himself a pay rise? maybe he has a sight problem? Not happy bout being ripped off..
*sigh* (i also noticed his cake figurines were double the price and the exact same as from the cheap mass-china-imports shop) I went to woolworths, noticed they had some nice cupcake papers for bout half the price so i got them too.

anyways it was fun, i was making them for hubby's work (so i can cook and not get fatter) so i followed the recipe exactly (shocked? lol!) DH said they went well, everyone loved them... BUT he made a joke 'if u can eat one of these cupcakes it shows your confident in your masculinity, just do something manly afterwards', there is only 1 female at his work.. so he suggested the cupcakes to be not so cutesy next time! *meh!* (he is just lucky i didnt put the pretty all-pink sprinkles i have in the cupboard on them! that i resisted!) I didnt have much icing mixture, but then at the end result, not sure i would have iced them completly anyway! I had chocolate stars left over so i made another batch (not following recipe/measuring, as i felt lazy) just for us.

Classic Cupcakes Makes 12

Ingredients

• 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cup milk
• 125g butter, melted, cooled
• 2 x 59g eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon Queen Natural Vanilla Essence
• Sprinkles and lollies, to decorate

• Icing

• 1 1/2 cups pure icing sugar
• Pink food colouring, optional
• 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons water

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a 12 x 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan. Alternatively, line holes with paper cases. Combine flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
2. Add milk, butter, eggs and vanilla to flour mixture. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.
3. Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
4. Make icing: Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Add food colouring and water. Stir until smooth and well combined. Spoon icing over cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles and lollies.

Source Super Food Ideas - March 2004 , Page 74

Recipe by Dixie Elliott


*i added some white chocolate to the saucepan when melting the butter!

Btw maria, i made a mistake the tiramisu (low fat) was with low fat ricotta and not fetta. (my bad!) i should learn to remember fetta goes in meatballs, ricotta goes in sweet stuff. (had to check the recipe, and this recipe uses kahula! yes much better than whatever marsala tastes like!! bleh!) the recipe is a ww? 10 serves at 3pts each.. ;)