Cupflakes

At the start of the summer I celebrated my 21st Birthday with a big party at my house. This meant there had to be cake, and lots of it. Cupcakes are a bit of a trend at the moment with little shops popping up all over the place. However, to buy from a 'professional' can be quite expensive so we decided to make our own and I was extremely happy with the results!

I had a little team of helpers including my best friend, Granny and Mum to help with the icing and decorating but I slaved away all morning making batch after batch of cakes. We ended up with about 60 and yes, we are still eating them now!

The recipe:

10 oz sugar

10 oz margarine

10 oz self raising flour

5 eggs

I repeated this recipe about 3 times in the end, I think it is fair to say I got a bit carried away!

For the icing my Granny made the most delicious butter cream. She told me not to ask for the measurements because she always judges it as she goes along but I know we got through 5 and a half blocks of butter and two and half boxes of icing sugar! Her secret ingredient is a dash of milk which made the icing as light as air, it really was delicious. She also added a drop of vanilla essence followed by pink or yellow food colouring.

We then spent the rest of the afternoon decorating the cakes with different toppings that we got from the supermarket which was definitely the most fun part! My personal favourites are the ones which look like little ice creams with flakes in which my friend cleverly named 'Cupflakes'.

I was so pleased with how the cakes came out and everyone at the party commented on how great they looked and tasted. We saved so much money making the cakes ourselves and had a lot of fun at the same time!