My First Ever Attempt at Making Cupcakes

Firstly I have an apology to make. I haven't paid enough attention to my blog - it has been such a busy, busy few weeks and I've just been constantly doing this or that and not had much in the way of spare time. Anyway here I am and today I'm going to tell you about something new I did recently.


I quite often read lots of blogs whch feature gorgeous cakes that people have baked and have thought to myself "I'd really like to have a go at doing a spot of baking". Now I have to admit I am no Betty Crocker! The last time I tried to make my husband a cake it was so bad it ended up in the bin before he could see my feeble attempt (words cannot describe how bad it was!). The worst thing about the whole experience was the actual sponge cakes themselves were frozen and all that needed doing with them was putting in the oven to bake - they themselves wern't too bad but it all went wrong when I tried to add the buttercream filling before they had properly cooled down.......that will teach me for being an eager beaver!

Last weekend it was a very good friends hen do. As one of her bridesmaids I really wanted to make something lovely for all the hens as part of the buffet so I decided to bake some cupcakes - a major project for someone of my cooking standards!

I'd got all my ingredients enough to make 12 cupcakes and the decorations which I would use to make them look pretty. So on Friday night when most people are out clubbing I was at home donning my apron and following the recipe that I'd got off the internet. Once in the oven all I could do was wait to see what happened - about 15 minutes later I checked and there in front of me were 12 lovely looking little sponge cakes.

Remembering my experience last time I made sure the cakes were completely cooled before I tried to ice them with the buttercream topping. Unfortunately this didn't come out quite how I wanted it to - I'd wanted it to be a nice pink colour and had slowly been adding red colouring to the mixture which ldid look the perfect colour before I left it to thicken slightly in the fridge to make it easier to pipe. When I went to use the frosting it had turned a beige colour, not quite what I was hoping for but it was still useable.

A sprinkle of different toppings on each cake finished them off nicely and I was very proud of my creations.

Of course the proof was in the pudding but I coudn't test them as I had made exactly the right amount of cakes - one for each hen. It was a little bit of a worrying time when the first person took a bite but I was very happy that everybody told me the cakes were yummy - in fact as a well known advert says "they tasted exceedingly good".

Not bad for a first attempt I think. I'm looking forward to making some more - maybe I'll do some at the weekend as I think my husband was a little miffed that he didn't get to try one!

As always thank you for reading.

 xSx