UNICEF

Hey guys, so about a month ago i got asked to make cupcakes to sell at school to raise money for UNICEF!!! i thought that i would only need to make about 20-25 since other forms were going to make them. But mine sold with in 2-3 mins so i was asked to make more for the next day and more for Friday. i had to make about 40-50 cupcakes for Tuesday and then 40-50 for Friday  So i was busy that week baking! I'm going to put the recipe for the 40 cupcakes down and i'll also put pictures of the 3 different cupcakes so you can see the way i decorated them. click here to find out more about UNICEF.

ingredients:
600 g self raising flour
600 g caster sugar
600 g butter
12 eggs
2-3 tsp of vanilla essence

method:

1. pre-heat the oven to 170°c and line a cupcake tray with cupcakes cases
2. cream the butter and sugar together and then add the eggs one by one until its sloppy at this time add the vanilla essence and if you want add a tbsp of water
3. fold in the flour and when its light and fluffy spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases filling them half way.
4. put the cupcake trays into the oven and bake for round about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and are golden
5. take the cupcakes out and let them cool
6. whilst the cupcakes are baking and cooling you can make the butter cream(the recipe is in one of my other blogs)
7. for the first batch of cupcakes i made, i piped a swirl on the cupcakes and crushed some ores on top of the cakes
8. using white regal icing i cut a circle out and stuck it on the cake. As the logo for unicef is quite hard to pipe out since im new to piping letters i just spelt the name out using six cupcakes
9. use a number 2 nozzle as it is small and pipe the letter you want
10. for the next batch of cupcakes which i had to do for tuesday i used the same mixture and used the same recipe of butter cream but doubled it as i had to make 40-50 cupcakes
11. i used orange butter cream and crushed oreos again and sprinkled them on top
12. i used munchies and maltesers to decorate my cakes and place one on top of the cupcake
13. for the last batch of cupcake i made the same batch and butter cream but i made red butter cream and used vice versa's to put on top of the cakes

1st batch of cupcakes

i hope this will have helped you with ideas for your own cupcakes

enjoy!

3rd batch of cupcakes

2nd batch of cupcakes

simple butter cream recipe

Hey guys so instead of me writing out the recipe for butter cream out with every cake i decided to make a blog for the butter cream.
This recipe will decorate up to 20 cupcakes/ an 8 inch cake

ingredients:
500 g icing sugar
250 g butter
2 tsp of vanilla essence (your choice if you want a flavor to your butter cream)
1-2 tbsp milk
gel food colouring (if you want to colour them)

method:

1. add half of the icing sugar with the whole amount of butter
2. when it looks creamy add the milk and essence (if you want to put essence in)
3. add the rest of the icing sugar into the butter cream mixture.
4. if you want to colour the cake use gel colour as you use less (if you use liquid food colouring you end up using a full bottle and the colour wont be dark)

Enjoy!