Thursday, October 30, 2008

Butterfly sponge cupcakes




I just bought a new silicon muffins pan and had to try it. I decided to make some cupcakes. These cupcakes are sponge cupcakes decorated with glace icing and coloured coconuts. The decorations are made from royal icing and fondant. The recipe I used for these cupcakes comes from Aunty Yochana's blogspot. here's the link http://auntyyochana.blogspot.com/2008/01/chocolate-fudge-cake.html. However, I made some substitutions. Here's the modified recipe :)Ingredients for sponge cake:

(A)
120 gm. Superfine flour
1/4 tsp. Baking powder
1/4 tsp. Bicarbonate of soda
1/4 tsp. salt
85 gm. sugar
4 egg yolks
50 gm. cooking oil (any brand)
40 gm. water

(B)
4 nos. egg white
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
85 gm. castor sugar


(1) Mix all the ingredients (A) together into a smooth batter.
(2) Whisk (B) till until stiff peaks
(3) Fold (A) and (B) together, taking care not to overmix. Pour into cupcake tin and bake at 175C for about 15 mins. or till cooked. Remove cake from oven.
(4) decorate to your heart;s desire :)


19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cute cupcakes :)

Anonymous said...

The cupcakes look amazing - what a pretty blog, I love it :)

Bunny said...

These cupcakes are so fluffy looking they almost look like angel food cake, I love to make sponge cakes! You're decorations are adorable.

Mary said...

Now arn't they cute and yummy !

Dolcetto said...

Sei incredibile!! Sia questi cupcakes che i dolcetti di martedì sono superlativi!

Royal cake said...

meravigliosi, non ho altre parole!!

Micaela said...

Che belle che sono!!! semplicemente perfette!!! sei un vulcano di idee originalissime! un bacione e buon halloween!

alexandra's kitchen said...

these cupcakes are dreamy! so light and airy looking. Silicone is pretty amazing. i love my Silpat.

Joie de vivre said...

These are a little girl's dream come true. Beautiful!

Half Baked said...

Really cute cupcakes!!

The Blonde Duck said...

I love those! It's like the cupcakes got dressed for Halloween!

sharyl said...

ooohhh those loook yummy! awesome job snooky!

CookiePie said...

Those are the sweetest, prettiest cupcakes! Adorable!

Steph said...

They look cute and really fluffy! I have a really hard time with sponges because I find that they're easy to overmix. I'm glad your modified version worked well for you.

Sophie said...

These are really sweet :). I could go for one of these right now. I can't believe I haven't made a sponge cake!

Maya said...

Mammamia!!! fai delle cose troppo buone e troppo belle!!!!!!
Grande!!!!!

Cakebrain said...

I love the butterfly! it's so cute! looks yummy!

Jerri at Simply Sweet Home said...

Those are very cute!

Jennifer said...

O my goodness i have never wanted a cupcake this badly at 8:45am before! lol. These look so beautiful and o-so-yummy! I am going to have to try my hand at your butterflies, my daughter would love them!