Cup Cakes

Cup cakes seem to be very popular at the moment, people use them for wedding cakes (no cutting needed!) and the amount of fun toppings make cup cakes nearly endless in the things you can do with them.

Originally I had planned to make red velvet cup cakes for the Eurovision party I was going to but in the end I purchased some M&S cookies to take with me. When it came to using up some of the baking ingredients I wanted to make them for work only to discover I didn't actually have any red food coloring. In the end I went with chocolate cup cakes with cream cheese icing!

Chocolate Cup Cakes

½ cup plus 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1¼ cups hot water
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¾ cup butter
1 cup sugar
¾ cup light brown sugar
3 large eggs

Preheat oven to 350F

Cream butter and sugars till fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla alternate between mixing in flour/baking powder and hot water until well mixed.

In cupcake tin put in liners and fill these 3/4 full with mix.

Bake at 350F 15 minutes. Once cool put on icing.


Cream Cheese Icing

8 container of cream cheese
6 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups icing(powdered) sugar

Put ingredients into a high sided bowl, use a mixer to mix properly. Spread onto cooled cup cakes and enjoy!