All about cupcakes

Strawberry cupcake recipe ingredients:

* 4.4 oz butter
* 6 tablespoons sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 eggs
* 1 cup yogurt
* 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 10.6 oz strawberries, chopped

Strawberry yogurt cupcakes recipe instructions:

Beat softened butter with sugar, vanilla and eggs.

Pour yogurt in eggs and mix it all together.

Combine flour, baking powder and baking soda and mix that into eggs also.

Stir washed and chopped strawberries in cupcake mix.

Fill lined cupcake pans and bake strawberry cupcakes in the preheated oven to 350°F for about 20-25 minutes.



Apple carrot cupcake recipe ingredients:

* 4.4 oz butter
* 6 tablespoons sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
* 1 egg
* 0.9 cup (7.05 oz) apple juice
* 10.6 oz flour
* 1 pinch salt
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 3 carrots (middle sized), grated
* 2 apples (middle sized), grated
* 2 tablespoons sugar powder (for decoration)

Homemade cupcakes recipe instructions:

Beat butter with sugar, vanilla sugar and egg.

Pour apple juice in butter, add flour, salt and baking powder in it and mix it all together.

Stir cleaned and grated carrots and apples in the cupcake mix.

Pour cupcake mixture into lined cupcake pan and bake in a preheated oven to 350°F for 25 minutes.

Sprinkle your apple carrot cupcakes with sugar powder.



Coconut cupcakes recipe ingredients:

* 4.5 oz butter, softened
* 7 tablespoons sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 cup milk
* 5.3 oz coconut flour
* 2 cups flour
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1 pinch salt

Coconut cupcake cakes recipe instructions:

Beat butter with sugar and mix egg yolks in it.

Add vanilla, milk, coconut, flour and baking powder in butter and mix it.

Beat egg whites with pinch of salt and stir them in coconut mixture.

Pour cupcake mix into lined cupcake pan and bake in a preheated oven to 350°F for 25 minutes



Vanilla lemon cupcakes recipe ingredients:

* 4 eggs
* 2/3 cup sugar, granulated
* 1 lemon (lemon juice and lemon zest)
* 2.85 oz butter, softened
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 cup flour
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1 pinch salt
* 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

Easy lemon cupcake recipe instructions:

Beat egg yolks with sugar.

Mix lemon juice, lemon zest, butter, vanilla, flour and baking powder in egg yolks.

Beat egg whites with pinch of salt and stir it in the cupcake mix.

Fill cupcake pans and bake in the preheated oven to 350°F for about 20 minutes.


borrowed from cakejournal.com

SUGAR PASTE (Flower making paste)

Fondant/Gumpaste/Sugarpaste

Good for making flowers, figurines as it sets very hard but can be rolled ultra thin for life like flowers

Ingredients

50 mls Water
3 teaspoons gelatine
2 teaspoons of Copha (vegetable shortening) then melt
1 teaspoon liquid glucose
2 teaspoons CMC (Tylose)
500g Pure icing sugar
1 egg white

Directions

Put gelatine in water and leave to soak
Divide sifted icing sugar into two bowls
Put CMC into one half
Put water and gelatine over double boiler and dissolve with copha and glucose
When melted pour into bowl that has icing sugar and CMC in it
mix up and add lightly beaten egg white
Add rest of icing sugar until a paste has formed (I turn out on to bench and knead as it is easier)
Knead well until smooth
break into 5 or 6 balls
Wrap in plastic wrap and leave in fridge for 24 hours. It can then be left in fridge or placed in freezer if it is not going to be used in a hurry. a little will go a long way.