HAPPY NEW YEAR CUPCAKES RECIPES

A present for Christmas was a new food mixer by Dualit . It has got some useful attachments and is ideal for lots of cupcakes recipes. The photograph shows it in action on my first cupcakes of the new year 2007. I like to do things by hand but this does make things quicker.

This is a selection of the different types of cupcake cases that are available for different occasions and different cupcake recipes. The small foil cupcake cases can be used for mini-cupcakes. The white cupcake case is for the small fairy cake size and the larger cupcake case can be used for muffins and the larger cupcakes. It means that the case will take twice as much mixture or batter so I have doubled the recipe mixture. The cupcakes have more depth and will allow more opportunity for fillings and decoration.

I decided to make my first cupcakes to celebrate the new year. The recipe is as follows;
Ingredients
2 cups--8oz self-raising flour
1 cup--8oz butter or margarine
1 cup--8oz castor sugar (fine ground)
4 eggs
1 lemon--grate off the rind and squeeze out the juice
1 tablespoon of milk
16 large cupcake or muffin cases

Method
Cream the sugar and butter-margarine together. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Add the grated lemon rind, lemon juice and milk. Add the flour and beat gently. Divide the mixture into 16 cupcake cases, They must be the large ones. This mixture would make 32 cupcakes in the small fairy cake cases. Cook at gas 5, 190C or 375F for 20 minutes. Do not open the oven whilst they cook as they will not rise.
Decorate in the style of your choice.



These cupcakes are double the depth and allow for bigger decoration. I am going to use this size this year to create cupcake recipes with delicious fruit fillings and creams. These are tasty Lemon Cupcakes and I have decorated them to say Happy New Year 2007 to everyone who has been to my sites and also for my family to enjoy.

The cupcakes have been decorated with icing on the base , small sweets to show the words and then they are defined with writing icing tubes.

Remember to check out all my archives for cupcake recipes and decorating ideas.

I am hoping to start adding new recipes for cupcakes each week this year along with lots more decorating ideas.

If you have any comments please share these or if you want me to do a certain recipe again please comment.

Crazycupcakes.