Practise Cakes

I've not made anything for a while, I've been manically busy with work, friends and being mean to the boys I've been dating.  Mainly work though.  I have a limit on how mean I can be before I start feeling bad about it.

I've been working on a couple of other projects recently, not cake related, hopefully I'll be able to write them up when they're finished soon.  However, in my travels round the Internet I stumbled across these beauties.  I do adore pinterest, it's my new guilty pleasure.

I'm not sure if they're a work of genius, the product of a disturbed mind or just a short cut to type two diabetes.

Anyway, I am going to make them for work.  As an Easter present.  Who doesn't want sugar poisoning for Easter?

Given my complete and utter fail at baking recently, I figured I should probably road test a chocolate cupcake recipe before starting in on these.  Otherwise it could be a very expensive cake mistake.

So I knocked up some Hummingbird Bakery chocolate cupcakes.

80g butter
280g caster sugar
200g plain flour
40g coco
1tbsp baking powder (yes really that much)
1/4 tsp salt
240ml whole milk
2 large eggs.

Beat the butter, sugar, flour, coco, baking powder and salt together until they are a sand like consistency.  Mix the milk and eggs together and combine to form the batter.  Bake for 18-20 minutes at 190 degrees.  I made 14 cakes from this mix.

FROSTING
400g icing sugar
100g coco
160g butter
50ml whole milk

Whisk together to make the icing, then pipe onto the cakes and decorate.

Do you know, I think I might actually have my baking mojo back.  They taste delicious and although the icing might not quite be up to my little sister's standard, it's still a hell of a lot better than the horror that was the liquid mess of the red velvet cakes.