Cupcakes!

I was bored yesterday & really unmotivated to do any work so I thought I'd bake some cupcakes! I took pictures so I thought I'd share the recipe because its really simple (& im bored lol). So if you wanna make these babies read on!

 

Its important to get the measurements right if you want your cupcakes to taste good so make sure you have some scales. I got mine from Tescos & it was only like a fiver :D

 

You will need: Self-raising Flour, Caster Sugar, Icing Sugar, Butter & Cupcake Cases. Decoration, Food Colouring & Vanilla Extract are optional! I also had chocolate fudge because I was gonna use this instead of icing but I chose icing in the end.

 

So for the cupcake mixture you will need: Self-raising flour (100g), Caster sugar (100g), Butter (100g) and 2 eggs. This will make 12 cupcakes so if you wanna make 6 then just halve the ingredients (50,50,50,1) or if you want to make 18 (150,150,150,3) and so on. After you have this ready preheat the oven to 180°C.

 

Firstly you will need to beat the butter and caster sugar until its light and fluffy, then add the eggs one by one, after you mixed it up it will look very runny and nasty but its ok! then if you want you can add 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla essence and lastly add the self-raising flour. Make sure you mix it up carefully until it looks like the picture above.

 

Next you need to place the cupcake cases in a cupcake tin & evenly distribute the mixture, do this carefully and make sure its not all over the edges, then pop them in the oven.

 

They will take about 10-20mins, make sure you check them every now & then. After 10mins use a skewer to poke them all the way through, if it comes out clean then they are done, if not leave them for another 5mins then check again & so on. Once they're done make sure you let them cool down before you decorate them!

 

Whilst you're waiting for your cupcakes to bake you can make the icing! I chose to make buttercream instead but beware, its very sweet! I used butter (75g), icing sugar (175g), vanilla essence (1/2 teaspoon, optional), this is more than enough for 12 cupcakes but it depends on how you want to decorate them. Mix these up until its smooth, you can also add food colouring if you want, I added some red food colouring (its orange because the buttercream is yellow). Start off by softening the butter then adding the icing sugar in small amounts to make it easier. This is now ready for your cupcakes! Once the cupcakes have cooled down decorate them however you like & voila!

They're supposed to be hearts btw, they're bent i know T__T. I ordered a giant cupcake mould & some piping tools so can't wait for those to arrive :D If you decide to make some cupcakes make sure you show me some pictures! 

Thanks for reading, xoxo.

Lil Update!

Just a lil update seeing as I aint posted ina while!

So I started off the month being ill! Im hardly ever ill so when I am its quite bad but it doesn't last long either which is good, it started off as a lil cough then everyday it just got a bit worse. I woke up on Thursday morning & I puked! it was so bad, spent the rest of the day in bed, hardly eating anything, but before I slept I gave in & took a tablet, what a way to spend my CNY! Woke up so much better on Friday morning though and I've got better ever since. So I didn't really have a great CNY but I did enjoy all the food on the days before! We had a lil hotpot as our pre new years dinner then on new years eve we had the traditional dinner. YUM!

I felt so crappy that week but I did go out fora bit on Saturday night, it was so last minute but atleast i got some AIR! I was worrying so much aswell cus on that Monday I found out I had a portfolio at LCC the next Wednesday & cus I was ill I lost a couple days where I could of done more work, so spent the rest of the weekend and Monday getting my portfolio ready, the portfolio was sucha nightmare cus its so big (A1) and it was so heavy, my floor was like a death zone with scissors and scalpels here & there but by Monday night I got it all done cus I knew Tuesday was gonna be a busy day, I still had my sketchbook to fill up though. Tuesday was Trang's birthday and she was coming back from her holiday that evening and having a meal, 3 of us planned to bake her a cake aswel so most of my day was spent buying ingredients and baking it. I woke up late so I didn't have much time to add any work to my sketchbook, I couldn't be bothered when I got home either because it was about 12 & I was exhausted, did a few bits & bobs & just headed to bed!

 

Heres the cake we baked! It was just a chocolate cake, there weren't any chocolate fudge icing left at the shop which was a shame so we just made buttercream. It looked so much better without the bottom layer because we didn't have time to let it cool so the buttercream was just oozing out in the middle, by the time the the cake came out for her that night the buttercream in the middle just melted everywhere! I've only ever baked lil cupcakes & stuff so this is the first cake I've ever baked, it turnt out alright though, we were proud! haha!

So Wednesday was the day of the portfolio review, I managed to do a couple of pages in my sketchbook that morning which made me feel a bit better and luckily my dad gave me a lift to elephant & castle. We all got there for 10 and was told to come back and get our portfolios at 5 so we had a whole 7 hours to waste. A couple of us from Ravensbourne decided to go together up west to just hang out, we went troc & it was nice being a kid again, playing games to get those yellow tickets lol! We exchanged them for rings & braclets which were probably only worth like 10p but it was good fun,  went on the bumper cars aswell which is always good fun but sucha rip off! went to chinatown for lunch then we headed back to troc because the guys wanted another inflatable hammer =.= We still had a couple more hours so we decided to do something education & went to the science museum, I've never been before so I thought I'd check it out, its pretty cool there! Good for kids lol. Anyway headed back after & I took my fat heavy portfolio ond bus to go home, my hands were hurting so much! We was supposed to find out if we got in or not in 24hours but I still aint heard from them, pstt!

Anyway! I ordered a couple of things online this week, I love receiving parcels especially when they come so quick!

 

I got my first lomography camera! the Holga 120TLR. Basically its just a plastic camera and it uses film. The photos aren't supposed to come out crispy clear like digital cameras, they're supposed to be flawed & have that vintage-look, I haven't used it yet but I can't wait to try it out. I'm not sure if I can just take the film and get it developed at any photo place though =/. I wanted the Diana F+ Alice in Wonderland one but it was so expensive!

I got this aswell, another Jewelry hanger but its a standing one. Its fugging beautiful, love it!!

& Thats it! Not really a "lil" update but yeah! I hope everyones had a nice start to the month, what are you guys getting up to for Valentines? Leave a comment below.

Toodles. x