Thursday, June 17, 2010

Recipe Share - Quickie Cupcakes (thanks Ikea!)


Quickie Cupcakes
Ingredients:
  • 2 cups Self-raising Flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup caster sugar
  • 125 grams unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 200℃
Line cupcake trays with liners
Sift flour sugar and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer, add butter, eggs, milk and vanilla.
Beat slowly for 1 minute. Increase speed and beat for two minutes.
Spoon batter into pre-prepared liners.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
Top with your favourite icing.

(Serves 24)

Variations:
Add 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to dry ingredients
Fold in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips or sultanas before spooning into liners

Download recipe.

I am going to admit to something somewhat embarrassing. I quite literally made these cupcakes tday just so I could try out these that I picked up from Ikea on the weekend:

From Life


From Life



Sad? Maybe. Obsessive? Definitely! And it turns out they were super fun! You can fill the liners basically to the top, and the little recesses in the man stop the batter from spreading out. That means it goes up and you get these sky-high little tops!

I also picked up these while I was there:

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From Life


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From Life

And the whole trip cost me less than $70! Loving Ikea!!!

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