Lightening Bolt

So we had a storm here the other night, and a massive lightening bolt hit a house round the corner from us, making a gaping hole in their roof & frazzling our internet. Although I'm glad we only got the second part of that deal, it does mean that I haven't written on here for a while.

I actually have a few crafty things to pop up on here as well but I haven't got any pictures yet so I'll save them for a later date, but I did go into a baking frenzy the other day before Josh left for snowboarding, so I'll post half the results today and half when I get a chance (if they haven't been eaten!).

Apple & Cinnamon Cupcakes

I made up a cake mixture using the usual 6, 6, 6, 3 method (I'll explain below), and used half to make these apple and cinnamon beauties, and half to make lemon meringue cupcakes. The lemon meringues don't look quite so good, but they taste divine. For this recipe, I've just written it out as if you were making a whole batch just of the apple and cinnamons.

Ingredients (makes 12)

6oz caster sugar

6oz butter

6oz self raising flour

3 eggs

300 ml apple sauce

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp mixed spice

For the icing:

Icing sugar

Butter

More cinnamon

Method

1. Preheat oven to Gas Mark 5. Cream the sugar and butter together until soft and fluffy, then gradually add the eggs, mixing well

2. Pour in the flour slowly, continuously mixing

3. Add the cinnamon, mixed spices and apple sauce

4. Spoon the mixture into cake cakes and bake at the top of the oven for 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

5. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.

6. Meanwhile, make the icing. I played by ear to make mine, using roughly 3oz butter and adding icing sugar until it was the desired thickness. Add a generous helping of cinnamon.

7. Transfer the icing to a piping bag, pipe the icing onto cakes and top with sprinkled cinnamon (I also added glitter sugar because I like sparkly things)

And there we have it, another very easy cupcake :)

As I mentioned, Josh is away at the moment and he doesn't get back until after I've left for India (9th Feb aaahhhh!), so I won't be seeing him for 6 weeks. I've decided to make and eat as many yummy, sparkly things as possible in the next week and a bit, in the hope that it will take my mind off it, and I'll have hopefully worn them off by the time I see him!

And in the meantime, as long as we don't get any more lightening bolts I'll be back on here again soon! Have a lovely rest of your Tuesday

Amy x