Shopping list for 24 mini cupcakes
125 grams fine granulated sugar
125 grams of butter (room temperature)
1½ free-range organic egg (room temperature)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
125 grams self-raising flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of milk
fondant icing, red, white, blue and orange
For the last Queen's Day we bake mini-cupcakes for the mini-monsters. They prefer vanilla flavour and fondant icing too, so it's not difficult to choose ;)) The cupcakes will be red, white and blue, just like our flag with an orange crown on top, because Queen Beatrix says goodbye to the throne.
This is how you make our Queen's Day cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 175°C and place paper cases in the cupcake tin
Beat the sugar and butter until creamy and pale coloured.
Beat in the eggs one by one then add the vanilla.
Gradually sift the flour into the butter mixture.
Fold in the flour until all is well combined.
Then fold the milk into the batter.
Fill the molds to three quarters with batter.
Bake the cupcakes for +/- 15 minutes.
Allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes.
Then place the cupcakes on a wire rack.
Roll the fondant thinly under cling film.
Cut out red, white and blue circles.
Stick the circles, using a drop of water, on the cupcakes
Cut out stripes and stick them on.
We bought some crown plungers.
Cut or plunge out crowns.
Stick a crown on each cupcake.
Tea to go with the cakes and there's your party ;))
Happy Queen's Day!