Flower pot cupcakes - recipe
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Prepare
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Serves
9 -
Cook
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Skill
Easy
Ingredients
For the cupcakes
- 100 g Butter (unsalted) at room temperature
- 100 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) beaten
- 75 g Self-raising white flour
- 25 g Cocoa powder
- ¼ tsp Baking powder
- 9 Ice cream cup cones
For the buttercream
- 50 g Butter (unsalted)
- 150 g Icing sugar
- 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
For the flower decoration
- 250 g Sugar paste icing pink
- Icing sugar a little
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1
Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan, gas mark 4).
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2
Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until light and fluffy.
For this step you'll need:
- 100g Butter (unsalted)
- 100g Unrefined golden caster sugar
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Gradually beat in the eggs a little at a time until smooth, adding a little flour if the mixture curdles.
For this step you'll need:
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) beaten
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4
Stir in the flour, baking powder and cocoa until smooth.
For this step you'll need:
- 75g Self-raising white flour
- ¼tsp Baking powder
- 25g Cocoa powder
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5
Place a dessertspoon full in each ice cream cup, and place them inside a cupcake tin to keep them standing upright, bake for 15-18 minutes until golden brown and just firm to the touch. Allow to cool completely.
For this step you'll need:
- 9 Ice cream cup cones
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To make the buttercream, place the butter in a bowl with 1-2 tsp boiling water, add the icing sugar and cocoa, and beat until smooth. Spread each cake with a little of the icing.
For this step you'll need:
- 50g Butter (unsalted)
- Icing sugar a little
- 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
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7
To decorate, roll small balls of green icing into oval shapes, flatted slightly into leaf shapes then score with the back of a knife to make veins. Roll the pink sugar paste icing thinly on a work surface dusted with icing sugar and use flower cutters to cut out blossoms. Add little balls of complimentary coloured icing for the centre of the flowers and arrange on top of the leaves.
For this step you'll need:
- 250g Sugar paste icing pink
- Icing sugar a little