more cupcakes

And for those who are craving vanilla, here's the recipe for Alice's special vanilla cupcakes.

Vanilla cupcakes (makes 12 cupcakes)

Ingredients you will need:

175g unsalted butter
150g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
90g ground almonds
170g golden caster sugar
3 free range eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
200ml innocent yoghurt, vanilla bean and honey thickie

Same excellent baker and slighty less tidy kitchen.

What you need to do:

1. Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas Mark 5.  Melt the butter in a saucepan and leave it to cool.

2. Sieve the flour and baking powder into a large bowl and add a pinch of salt.

3. Then add the ground almonds and golden caster sugar and stir together.

4. Crack the eggs into another bowl and beat together. Then add thickie, vanilla extract and melted butter. Mix well. 

5. Add the yoghurty egg mixture to the floury mixture and fold together gently.  Don't overmix.

6. Divide the mixture between 12 muffin cases.

7. And then bake in the oven for 20 minutes. 

7. Wash up again.

8. Make a cup of tea.

8. Cool on a wire rack when the cakes are golden brown.

9. And then find some other people to try the cakes.

Thanks to Hannah for baking, Conor for tasting and Holly for taking the good photos (i.e the one of Conor and the finished cupcakes)

Comments

[Tina]

Please could we have a printer friendly version of thesr recipes? Thanks TJ

[Nigel Russell]

Hi,

Lovely receipe. Can you recommend something to replace the ground almonds as my kids both have a nut allergy. I know there's always one!!

Many thanks

Nigel Russell

[ceri]

Hello Nigel

I've had a quick look online and someone suggests using ground rice instead. It's dead cheap, 70p for 500g.

I've also asked Mel who works here as know she can't eat nuts either.

Will let you know if she comes up with an alternative to ground rice.

Let us know how they turn out if you go for the rice option.

ceri

[georgina]

you can leave the ground almonds out - i use it when i make pastry..and leave it when need be.

The only down side is the cakes are not quite as tasty and texture is slightly different.

Hope I was of some help
G :D