Honey top cupcakes

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 | Cooking

Time passes quickly and life with a two year old doesn’t leave much time for anything much, least of all blogging, so these pages have seen little love for a good long while now. In fact, baking has been this hurried event where I’ve started using the same one or two recipes over and over again for bread, which makes for rather boring blog posts, to be honest.

Today when my daughter woke up from her midday sleep, she resolutely pointed to one of my baking books, flipped around for a short while then resolutely pointed to a recipe for honey top cupcakes and making them could only go too slow (she was trying to get her apron fastened almost before we managed to get into the kitchen).

With such a scrumptious base, how can you go wrong? In case you wonder, we like to bake—probably also more than is good for us, but that is another story—so we have a decent stock of cupcake forms, here nicely added to our metal form to lessen the clean-up mess.

Our daughter diligently helped mix flour, spices, egg, wheat-based cream and the sugar-honey-margarine base above into a coherent dough that we (more or less successfully) managed to move into the forms.

This just leaves a bit of baking to be done for a while.

And, of course, no cupcake is complete without some form of icing. A nice lemon icing with red fruit colour. Nothing too pompous so our darling daughter won’t die of sugar shock.

It’s awesome to be baking the whole family together, in case anyone should be wondering.

With cinnamon, ginger and ground clove these cupcakes taste very Christmasy (basically the same things we stuff into our Christmas cookies over here). So, with a chance of beating even the store advertisements… have yourself a merry little Christmas.

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2 Comments to Honey top cupcakes

Søren B. Vrist.
October 3, 2010

Nice! I’ve also been having fun with my muffin/cupcake forms lately!
Quadrouple-chokolate muffins, apple-cinnamon muffins, fennel/ricotta muffins etc.

I like the idea about the joint effort between you and your daughter :)

Any chance you could outline the ingredients for these honey-top ones?

Henrik Stuart
October 4, 2010

Melt 130 g honey, 100 g packed brown sugar, 80 g margarine, cool and whisk together with 1 egg and 100 g 13% wheat cream. Fold 250 g wheat flour, a bit of baking powder, cinnamon, fresh ginger, ground clove and bitter orange shell and the desiccated shell of one organic lemon. They are a tad dry unless you add a decent amount of icing (either a mix of confectioner’s sugar and margarine, or standard icing with confectioner’s sugar and water/lemon juice).

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