Engagement Cupcakes

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Ingredients:

180g Plain Flour

210g Caster Sugar

2 tsp Baking Powder

X1 large Egg

60g Unsalted Butter

1tsp Vanilla Essence

 

Butter Icing:

375g Icing Sugar

120g Unsalted Butter

100g Dried Cranberries

100g White chocolate

Red and Pink Royal icing

 

Method:

Makes 12 cupcakes.

Prepare a muffin tray with 12 cases and preheat the oven to 160 degrees.

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1. Cream together the butter and caster sugar in a bowl, until pale and fluffy.

2. Slowly add in the large egg and continue to beat the mixture.

3. Next, add in the flour, baking powder and vanilla essence, and mix the ingredients together until you have a smooth cake mixture.

4. Once you’ve made your cake mixture, spoon the mixture into the previously prepared cases about ¼ full and then sprinkle in the cranberry and white chocolate chunks.

5. Once all the cakes have cranberries and white chocolate, spoon the cake mixture on top of the white chocolate and cranberries to fill the cases ¾ full.

6. Now, place the cakes in the oven for 18-20 minutes until golden brown.

7. After the cakes have cooked, remove them from the muffin tray and place them on a wire rack to cool.

8. Whilst the cakes are cooling, you can prepare the butter icing.

9. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and then add in the butter and milk. Continue mixing the icing until you have a pale, white butter icing. Then leave the icing to one side.

10. Next, roll out the red and pink royal icing using a rolling pin, using a heart cutter, cut out the heart shapes in the icing and place them on a board.

11. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl, over boiling water, until there are no white chocolate lumps. Once melted, drizzle the white chocolate over the heart toppers and sprinkle them with chopped cranberries. You can now leave these for about 20 minutes in the fridge, so that the white chocolate hardens.

12. Once the cakes are cool, using a piping bag, pipe the icing on to the cakes and then sprinkle the cakes with chopped cranberries and drizzle them with white chocolate.

13. Finally, place the heart shaped toppers on top of the icing.

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