Cup cakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + cooling
- A little effort
- Makes 24
- 200g butterat room temperature
- 200g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1 lemonzested
- 3 tbsp apricot jam
decoration
- 1 box ready made fondant icing
- 2 tbsp liquid glucose
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- for decorating food colouring
- for decorating sugar flowers
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 200c/fan 180c/gas 6. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs, flour and lemon zest. If the mixture is too stiff to fall off a spoon, add 1-2 tbsp lemon juice or water. Fill 24 cupcake cases ½ full, either put in a muffin tin to help them keep their shape, or put on a baking sheet (use 2 cases per cake to keep them more rigid) and bake for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned and springy to the touch. Cool on a wire rack.
step 2
Melt the apricot jam with a little water and sieve to make a glaze. Melt the fondant icing very carefully with the liquid glucose in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water (don’t let it boil or it won’t set again). Melt the sugar with 2 tbsp water and add to the mix. Stir until smooth, then leave until it thickens and cools a little. Add colouring if you like.
step 3
Brush each cake with apricot glaze then ice it with the fondant, decorate with sugar flowers, and let dry.