Hi and welcome to Shaye's Corner. I love photography, cooking, baking (especially my boys birthday cakes and cupcakes), kids arts and crafts and travelling. I am married and have 2 beautiful sons. Oh and I do enjoy a good cup of coffee.
I am not a professional photographer, a chef or child educator, I am a Registered Nurse by profession. I decided to start this blog to share my findings. I am often googling all of the above to find easier ways to do things. Life is complicated enough, I like things easy. If it's out there, I want to find it.
I hope to share my cakes and recipes, home made craft ideas, photography tutorials, travel findings and jokes :)
Thank you for visiting, have a look around and please leave a comment or advice. I am very new and inexperienced at this, so this too is a big learning curve for me.
Shaye
27 November 2012
23 November 2012
Nigella Cupcakes
125g caster sugar
125g soft unsalted butter
2 eggs
½tsp vanilla extract
2 tblspoon milk
Method (in a food processor)
- Preheat oven to 200°C, line 12 bun muffin tin with paper cases.
- Place all ingredients in a processor and blitz until smooth.
- Pulse while adding the milk to get a dropping consistency.
Method(hand and wooden spoon)
- Preheat oven to 200°C, line 12 bun muffin tin with paper cases.
- Cream butter & sugar
- Beat in eggs 1 at a time (with a little of the flour)
- Add vanilla extract then fold in the rest of the flour
- Add milk to get the dropping consistency
Once they are cool, I like to make up a batch of
Frosting
- 125g soft unsalted butter
- 1½cups (240g) icing mixture
- 2 tblspoon milk
Gradually beat in about half the sugar, then add the rest of the sugar and milk.
Flavour and colour as desired, I have never added any flavour and they still are a big hit in our household.
Dollop them on cakes or decorate as desired
ENJOY