Can I Bake? #2

After the interesting outcome from our first attempt at baking, we decided to choose a more simple recipe from the Primrose Bakery recipe book. We chose Chocolate Cupcakes and Coffee Buttercream Icing.

Cream butter, sugar and add egg yolks.Then add melted chocolate/(chocolate powder because we're lazy). 

Mix together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. 

 

Add 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix, add 1/3 of milk and mix. Repeat until all the flour and milk has been added.

Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases-

We then added the rest of the mixture into the cake tin again- just incase the cupcakes fail...

They were both put into the oven for 20-25 minutes. After 25 minutes we realised the cakes weren't rising. Which is a tad strange. Then we realised we didn't turn the oven on. So. Please make sure the oven is turned on and not just the light otherwise the cakes take twice as long to cook.

While the cakes were cooking we made the coffee buttercream icing. 

 

 Mix all the ingredients until it is smooth and creamy.

 We then put it in the freezer to cool it down a bit before icing the cakes. 

I AM VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU THAT THE CUPCAKES CAME OUT FINE AND THE ICING TASTED AMAZING.

The cake looked fine... Then we tried to take it out... 

.... Nevermind. I have come to accept that whenever I bake, SOMETHING will go wrong. But nevertheless, I am very happy with the outcome of the cupcakes. Who would've thought that the 'professional' cupcakes would come out better than the ice cream cookies.