Chocolate Cupcakes

For the best chocolate cupcakes use the freshest and best ingredients. Choose good quality chocolate – fairtrade if possible – and have everything at room temperature before you begin. And once you’ve mastered the basics, be creative and experiment! We’ve two recipes for chocolate cupcakes as well as recipes for …

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Cupcakes for Grown-ups

Cupcakes are perfect for any occasion. Make them simple for family teas, elegant for wedding celebrations, or pretty for your Sex and the City moments. For Children’s Parties you can let your imagination run wild topping the icing with sweets, sparkles and stars, but now and again it’s nice to …

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Cupcakes for Children

Cupcakes are perfect for every occasion from glamorous weddings to afternoon tea parties, from book launches to fund-raising coffee mornings – and children’s parties are no exception. You’ll be voted Top Mum of the Class every time if you offer some of these delectable cupcakes to visiting kids. The important …

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Cupcake Icing Ideas

The best cupcake icing is simple to prepare and delicious to taste. It should complement the cupcake rather than overwhelm it. As with most things in life insisting on good quality at the beginning will show in the final product. Cupcake icing is simple and requires few ingredients but always …

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Cupcake FAQ

Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes…people can’t get enough of their cakey goodness at the moment, us included! So how do you create the perfect cupcake? I hear you say… Well bakers, no more will your cases peel from the cake, no longer will you shed a tear at your unproportionately sized cupcake, …

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Make Cupcake Shoes To Die For!

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Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

Two of our all time favourites: the traditional lemon meringue pie and the delicate cupcake. Mix them together and what do you get?… The Lemon Meringue Cupcake – genius! These lovely little cupcakes are ideal as a tea time treat, or if you’re feeling a little more adventurous in the …

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The Perfect Giant Cupcake Recipe

Giant cupcakes taste fabulous, they are easy to make (we promise) and look amazing! When baking our delicious giant cupcakes we prefer to use a silicone mould but a traditional metal tin will work too, just remember to grease the tin well. We have included two options here, a simple …

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An Easy Peasy Guide to the Perfect Cupcake Bouquet

Using Cakebakers yummy classic vanilla cupcake recipe make a batch of delicious cupcakes and leave them to cool on a wire rack. You will only need 6 cupcakes for this cupcake bouquet. Top Tip: Cream the butter & sugar together first to achieve lovely, even, flat tops on your cupcakes… …

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CupCakes and Tray-Bakes

When it comes to fêtes and school fairs everyone knows the rule: the wickeder, the better. Here is a selection of the most saleable bakes we know. From the ethereally fluffy Lemon Cakes to sticky gingerbread, these cakes will be the talk of the fête. Strictly one at a time, …

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