Royal Baby Cupcakes // The Easiest Cupcake Recipe, Ever!

To celebrate the birth of the Royal Baby(!) we had a family BBQ whilst all frantically refreshing our phones/ipads/laptops to see if there had been any developments.

During the afternoon I decided to bake a batch of cupcakes, following a Mary Berry recipe and then topped them with buttercream - decorating half pink and half blue - pink for a girl, blue for a boy! 

Here's the (super easy) recipe...

• - 50g/2oz cocoa powder
• - 6 tbsp boiling water
• - 3 free-range eggs
• - 4 tbsp milk
• - 175g/6oz self-raising flour
• - 1 rounded tsp baking powder
• - 100g/4oz baking spread or soft butter
• - 300g/10oz natural caster sugar
  
  
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C
  
  
  2. Put the cocoa powder and boiling water into a large bowl and mix well to make a paste.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3. Add the remaining ingredients and beat again until combined. (I added a few chopped walnuts too.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  4. Divide the mixture into the cups.
  
  
  
  
  
  5. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
  
  
  6. Whip up some icing/buttercream and enjoy!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Congratulations to Will&Kate!
  
  
  
  
  
  Kisses,
  
  
  
  

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Procrastination Gone Wild

 The recipe is adapted from the BBC Good Food website (BBC Good Food Website) I just added more chocolate chips then they said, and I think I baked it for less time because apparently my mum’s oven is super fast!

Then a couple of days later I was inspired reading Glory’s blog (Yummy Treats, Click Here) seriously, its amazing what she can do! And so I ahd to make some cupcakes, but being British + mildly retarded in the kitchen + total lack of creativity, my cupcakes were a little lame in comparison to my inspiration.

And finally, I decided to spruce up my room a little bit because of my boyfriend coming to stay (for the first time might I add) and  also because my room is a bit bare sooo I wanted to make it a little nicer by adding a picture frame and every girl’s go to…fairylights!

Granted you can’t really see what the pics are but they’re a mixture of photos and postcards from when I went interrailing around Eastern Europe last summer!

So that’s what I’ve been up to the past few days! Enjoy drooling over my treats, if you’d like.

xxxBxxx

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