Adult Cherry Cupcakes

I found these two cupcakes in the latest Tesco free magazine that a friend passed to me. Inside there were a few ideas for cupcakes. The one above is a basic white cupcake recipe topped with a butter cream and a fresh cherry. To make this really adult for Easter festivities add chopped maraschino cherries to the mixture.

This is my basic cupcake recipe with 2 adaptations to create something similar to the Tesco offerings
Ingredients
4oz--110gm--1/2cup castor( fine sugar but not like powder icing sugar) sugar
4oz--110gm--1/2cup unsalted butter or margarine
40z--110gm--1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder,
2 eggs
1 tablespoon of milk
1/2 cup of chopped fine glace cherries or 1/3 cup drained and chopped maraschino cherries

1 fresh cherry for each cupcake

Butter cream or fresh cream and Kirsch liqueur for the topping
Method
Put the sugar and butter into a bowl and beat by hand with a wooden spoon or use a mixer until creamy
Add1 egg and beat in
Add the second egg and beat in
Seive in the flour and the baking powder and mix gently
Add the cherries and mix gently
Divide the mixture into cupcake cases which have been placed into a baking tray. I use a large spoon. This makes about 12 cupcakes in large cases. I fill each case about half to 3/4 full.
Pre heat the oven to gas 4--350F--180C
Cook in the middle to top of the oven if you have gas. I would suggest the middle for electric.
Cook for 15 to 20 minutes. DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN for at least 15 minutes as the cakes will sink.
They need to be firm to touch
Remove from the oven and cool.

Top with butter cream and a cherry either a glace, maraschino or a fresh one
If you do not like butter cream, top off with natural yogurt, cream cheese or marscapone cheese. Try whipped cream with a dash of Kirsch added and topped off with a cherry
Thanks for reading and please check out all my other recipes in the labels and archives.
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Easter Egg Cupcake Nest

I decided to work out some more adult Easter recipes,try out some of these:
Basic Ingredients
4 oz--110 gm--1 cup self-raising flour
4 oz--110gm--1/2 cup butter unsalted or salted or margarine
4 oz--110 gm--1/2 cup caster sugar(fine sugar) 1 teaspoon of baking powder 2eggs
1 tablespoon of milk
Method
Mix together the butter and sugar
Add the eggs one at a time and beat well
Add the flavouring, milk and extras at this point, mix in
Add the flour and gently mix
Put into cupcake cases
This will make about 14 small cupcakes or about 9 large cupcakes.
Put the mixture into the cases in a baking tray. Small cakes for 10 to 12 minutes, large muffin size for 20 minutes at gas 5, 190C, 375F Remove from the oven and cool
Variations
1. Add 1 tablespoon of Kirsch Cherry Liqueur and 2 oz--1/2 cup of chopped cherries. Put maraschino cherries on the top to decorate with icing or a frosting. For cherry frosting I would mix 3oz--3/4 cup icing sugar with the same quantity of butter. Cream well together and add a teaspoon of kirsch and a small drop of red food colouring to make it pink. Spread onto cool cupcakes and top off with cherry.
2. Follow as above but use Cointreau and the grated rind of one large orange. Make a frosting but add orange juice. Top off with fresh orange and a sprig of mint.
3. Follow as above but use Whisky or Glayva a whiskey liqueur and add 2oz--1/2 cup of raisins. It is good if the raisins can be soaked in the same whisky or Glayva overnight. Make a frosting and add a dash of whisky, top off with raisins and a dark chocolate mini egg.
4. Follow as above but use Rum. I prefer dark rum and again soak the raisins overnight . Top off with frosting with rum and some dark chocolate eggs.
5. I topped off the cupcake in the photograph with frosting and I then dipped the cupcake upside down into a crumbled chocolate milk flake( this was on a plate ) to create an interesting nest like texture.

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