ROSIE'S WONDERFUL PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

My cakes

My brother's cakes

 

Hello and welcome to the first ever blog post of 'Cooking with Rosie'. In today's post we are going to be exploring the wonderful world of Halloween, starting with 'Rosie's Wonderful Pumpkin Cupcakes' (jk I'm making cupcakes that look like pumpkins and my mother and brother are 'supervising' so that they can play with the icing and make sure I don't burn them like last time- also they want to eat the mixture). Enjoy!

For the cakes (makes 24):
1. Find your trusty recipe book- here is mine, I got it when I was very young and it is actually brilliant for fairy cakes
2. Collect your ingredients
For this recipe you will need:
125g (4oz) of self-raising flour
125g (4oz) of butter
125g (4oz) of caster sugar
1tsp of baking powder
2 eggs
1tsp of vanilla essence
3. Set your oven to 190oC/ 375oF/ Gas mark 5
4. Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl
5. Beat the eggs and then add to the bowl along with the butter, sugar and vanilla essence
6. Whisk until creamy and drops off a spoon
7. Fill up 24 cake cases and cook for 20 minutes
8. Eat the remaining mixture
9. When golden, remove the cakes and leave to cool

For the icing (ices 18):
1. Once again, find the new page in your trusty recipe book
2. Collect your ingredients
For this recipe you will need:
7tbsp of icing sugar
3tsp of water
1 drop of food colouring (for this design I will be using a drop of red and a drop of yellow)
Black icing pen (to draw the design onto the cake)
3. Make sure your cakes feel emotionally ready to be iced (we actually left the cakes and iced them the day after so they would be nice and fresh for the Halloween sleepover but also it was easier time wise- e.g. we couldn't be bothered)
4. Stir the water and icing sugar together in a bowl, make sure your icing is thick before you add the food colouring as the food colouring will water it down quite a bit
5. Add the food colouring, add a little if you want a light colour and more if you want it darker
6. Ice your cakes
7. When dry, decorate with the pen, if using something else (e.g. sweets) then decorate when still wet
8. Admire your work while eating the rest of the icing, Instagram it