Cupcake Decorating @ Victoria's Coffee Shop, Whitstable

 

Two friends and I had a great evening at Victoria's Coffee Shop yesterday. Lovely owner, Victoria, led the cupcake decorating course. We learnt about butter cream and tried different piping techniques.

Victoria offers a range of other courses.

I would highly recommend trying one out.

Fondant Fancies

This is my own recipe for fondant fancies. I used greased mini sandwich cake tins but you can use cupcake tins.

 

Preheat oven to 180C/gas 4.Cream 125g butter and 125g caster sugar together. Add 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract and 125g self raising flour, mix until combined.

Fill tins and bake for approximately 15 minutes or until golden brown. Leave to cool.

Cream together 60g icing sugar and 30g butter. Pipe small blobs on top of the cakes.

Squeeze and strain the juice from a few berries of your choice (I used blackberries). Add icing sugar and stir until a runny icing forms. Drizzle on to the cakes. Sprinkle with coconut or grated chocolate.

Happy Halloween!

 



 

Pumpkin Cake

 

150g butter

300g caster sugar

3 eggs

240g self raising flour

225g grated pumpkin

1tsp mixed spice

100g raisins

 

pumpkin seeds

caster sugar

icing sugar

orange juice

 

Preheat the oven to gas 4. Cream the butter and sugar.
Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix well.
Bake for 45 minutes.

 

Sprinkle pumpkin seeds with sugar and bake on a tray for 10 minutes. Add a few drops of orange juice to a small bowlful of icing sugar. Spread onto the cooled cake and add the seeds.