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I have one word here: "silicone" - the most wonderful invention in the world of baking tins (pans). They are just fantastic. You don't need to line them or even grease them. For these cupcakes, you really do need to invest in a silicone heart-shaped muffin tray.
* Makes about 8
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Cupcake Magic: Little Cakes with Attitude by Kate Shirazi
Published by Anova
Kate Shirazi makes beautiful and irreverently decorated cupcakes with eggs from her own free-range flock of hens rescued from laying cages—they are cupcakes with both conscience and attitude. Combining a simple, straightforward approach to cooking and an insatiable appetite for cake, here is a collection of delicious new recipes and fun designs for cupcakes. A lively, colorful book packed with baking tips, captivating new cake designs, modern photography, and delightful illustrations, it is split into low-fuss, middle-fuss, and high-fuss recipes, with ideas for sweet and savory, children and adults, and seasonal and special occasion designs. There is also a section devoted to ingredients and equipment. The author writes in such an informal style and w...
© 2013 Kate Shirazi / Anova · Reproduced with permission.Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Self-Raising Flour
- 0.5 cup (superfine) Caster Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 0.5 cup Margarine . softened
- 2 large free-range Egg(s)
- 1 tsp pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 quantity lemon or plain glace Icing
- Food Coloring (preferably gel)
- 1 tbsp Royal Icing
- Edible Lustre Icing
- Vodka
- Silicone heart-shaped muffin Baking Tray
- Metallic foil Cupcake Baking Case(s) (baking cups)
- Piping (decorating) Icer bag with a fine size 2 nozzle
- Project Cost
- Reasonably Priced
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Preheat the oven to 170'C/325'F/Gas mark 3.
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Sift the flour, sugar and baking powder in to a bowl, food processor or mixer. Add the margarine, eggs and vanilla, and beat until pale and fluffy. Spoon the mixture (batter) carefully into the silicone muffin tray, place on a metal baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, until golden and firm to the touch. Let the cupcakes cool in the muffin tray, then turn them out onto a wire rack.
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Slice the tops off the cupcakes so that you have a level surface and turn the cakes upside down. You want to ice the bottoms of the cakes. Make the glace icing and tint whatever colour your heart desires (sorry). Drizzle the icing all over the cakes and let it run down the sides.
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Before the icing is completely dry, lay out all your metallic cupcakes cakes (baking cups). Dip your fingers into a bowl of cold water, then lift the cakes onto the cases - this stops the icing sticking to your fingers. Carefully mould the cases around the hearts, and the cases should stay put.
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When the icing is completely dry, pipe decorations onto the cakes in royal icing. Let that dry. Mix some edible lustre with a few drops of vodka, and paint onto the royal icing. Alternatively, you could paint the entire top with edible glue and dip into glitter. Woo-hooo!
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