Earth Hour Cupcakes!
Earth Hour Cupcakes!
So Earth Hour is coming up this Saturday 31st March! And I thought to myself! OOoh! Perfect opportunity to eat cupcakes! Hence the cleverly named *Earth Hour Cupcakes*! Fun and delicious! Exactly what all cupcakes are about! Amazingly there is absolutely NO BUTTER in the cupcakes themselves, as they are sponge, however the icing is primarily butter and sugar, so I guess that makes up for the butter deficit in the cupcakes. This recipe makes 6 large cupcakes however you can always make smaller cupcakes!
Aah! Nothing better than eating cupcakes that look like miniature Earth!
Earth Hour Cupcakes!
Ingredients:
Cupcakes: 1 cup self-raising flour, 2 eggs separated, 2/3 cup caster sugar, 3 tbsp hot water
Butter icing: 1 cup icing sugar, 1 tbsp milk, 35g butter softened, blue dye and green dye
Steps: To make the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line a muffin tray with 6 patty cases. Sift the flour twice then return to the sifter. Beat the egg whites until stiff then gradually beat in the sugar and continue beating until shiny and stiff.
Add the egg yolk and beat until thoroughly mixed in then sift the flour over the surface and fold in quickly and lightly. Pour the water around the sides of the bowl and fold in gently until mixed.
Pour into prepared tray then bake in preheated oven for 12-15 minutes or until a skewer inserted through the centre comes out clean. Leave the cupcakes to cool in muffin tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
To make the icing: Beat together the softened butter, milk and icing sugar until smooth. Divide the icing mixture in half, then tint half of the icing blue and the other half green using food dye. Once the cupcakes are cool ice the tops with the blue icing first, then drop green icing on top of the blue icing to look like continents on the big blue sea!
Makes 6 large cupcakes
they looked so good, i had to comment. do u really want me to bake a cake???? if i do, it'll most probably be an ash cake in commeration of ash wednesday...