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Submitted by Noo8820
"This is a great little recipe from Bill Grainger that is used endlessly in my house. Mostly I don't bother making it into cupcakes, but prefer to bake one larger cake, then portion into squares-a little more grown up if you are using it for afternoon tea-but in cupcake form they are great for kids parties! I also don't always bother with the frosting, as it’s quite delicious without it. Its quick and easy to make-kids and adults love it alike, and it freezes well too! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!"
photo by Annacia
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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12 muffins
- Serves:
- 12
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ingredients
- 250 g softened unsalted butter
- 250 g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 185 g self raising flour
- 60 g plain flour
- 185 ml milk
-
icing
- 250 g white chocolate, drops
- 300 ml sour cream
- raspberries, to decorate
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directions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Grease a 12 hole 125ml muffin tin.
- Put butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat until pale and creamy. Add eggs, one by one, then add vanilla and beat until well combined.
- Sift flours together and fold into butter mixture while slowly adding the milk. Stir until almost smooth.
- Divide mixture between muffin holes and bake for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave in the tin for at least 10 minutes. Turn out on rack to cool.
- For the icing, melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water, stirring until smooth. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
- Gently beat in the sour cream until icing is thick and creamy.
- Spread icing on the cooled cupcakes and decorate with raspberries.
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Reviews
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These were very nice. I used my own icing, but loved the flavor and the softness of the cupcakes. My husband would have liked them a bit crisper, but he also likes his steak charred, so what does he know. :)
2boyzmum
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was the batter supposed to be lumpy?
David c.
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I'm not going to star this because I think that I must have gotten the amounts wrong on converting them to US. According to my translation it ask for almost 8oz of butter! I used 6 and it was still waaay too much. Between the butter, eggs and vanilla I had so much "liquid" that there was no way I could add any milk. Even without the milk I got delicious cupcakes (very rich but delicious) that rose beautifully. I could have sworn that I had white chocolate in the house but I could only find dark (I'm blaming the missing white on the moving gremlins!) so they got regular chocolate frosting. I have to say that the dark chocolate didn't do them any damage at all and even with all my mess ups they turned out very well.
Annacia
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These are very good! Such a wonderful flavor. Thanks for sharing.
CookingONTheSide
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I must say the frosting on these cupcakes are what make the cupcake. The flavor is fantastic. The cupcake themselves have a different consistency than what I am use to. I'm assuming it's the self-raising flour that gave it a more dense texture and also the taste was a little more bland. I don't know how you would change that as a full cup of sugar is more than enough. Also using the eggs and vanilla certainly would have given it something. All in all a good cupcake. Oh and I should mention that I got 16 good size cupcakes from the batter. Thanks Noo-Made for 123Hits~
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