Cupcakes - Home Economics

Welcome to another blog post, Today in Home Economics (cooking) we made cupcakes. I personally think that I did great working together with my group, using wonderful skills into making wonderful cupcakes. 

Firstly we got give the recipe that has listed the ingredients and the method to making Cupcakes. 

Cupcakes:

• 125 g Margarine/Butter
• 3/4 c Sugar
• 1 t Vanilla Essence
• 2 Eggs (size 7)
• 1 1/2 c Plain Flour
• 2 t Baking Powder
• 1/2 c Milk

Method:

1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon.
2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture.
3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg.
5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate.
6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture off the wooden spoon.
7. Add 1/2 sifted flour/baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper.
8. Repeat step 7 for the next 1/2 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not Over-mix.
9. Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter.
10. Carefully spoon cake batter evenly into 12 paper cases. 
11. Bake at 180 C for 7 minutes then turn oven to Fan Bake for a further 6-8mins.

Overall I think that my group and I we worked well together, from getting set up with the ingredients, following the method, making sure we are using some tips such as folding the mixture and not over mixing, also the last few things we did was the icing and decorating our cupcakes. 

 This is a photo of all our ingredients lined up all ready.

This is a photo of the cake batter where our cupcakes were developed.