Sunday 6 February 2011

Blueberry Burst Cupcakes

This is the first recipe I've made out of the Love Bakery cupcake book. This book is well worth a read for all you lovelys out there who like making cupcakes. The book is full of lots of fab recipes from the basic vanilla cupcake to more unusual flavours such as rhubarb and custard.

The sponge of these cakes is plain vanilla - I really liked this recipe for the sponge. It seemed to rise really well and was lovely and fluffy. I will definitely be using this recipe again when I want a batch of vanilla cupcakes.

I then used an apple corer to remove the centre of each cake and filled the cake with a spoonful of blueberry jam. I used St Dalfour's Wild Blueberry jam and it was definitely worth the extra pennies. The jam has a very high fruit content and is not sweetened with additional sugar but with fruit juice.

I then topped the cupcakes with a swirl of vanilla butter cream. The recipe called for cream cheese frosting but I'm always a bit against topping my cakes with this as they don't keep as well. I bought some new Wilton nozzles recently as I had got a little bored with using the same ones. I thought this one would make a nice alternative! I then popped a few blueberries on each cake.





7 comments:

  1. I have only tried one recipe from this book so far but really liked it, your cupcakes look lovely. I think I'll try the rhubarb and custard next, they're calling me.

    Thanks so much for visiting and following my little blog, since it seems you are as cupcake crazy as me I will happily follow back. x

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  2. Ahh thank you for following me back! I came across your blog as Katiecakes mentioned you on hers. Love the Valentines day cupcakes...i think i might have a go at some next weekend!

    Hehe the rhubarb and custard ones are calling me too...dont they look scrummy! xxx

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  3. These look absolutely perfect, yum. Nice one :) x
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  4. Yum - they look so good. Really like the fresh blueberry theme throughout. May need to get myself a copy of that book ;0)

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  5. They look really delicious! Love the plate too!

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  6. These look lovely - I've yet to bake something bad from the Love Bakery book!

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  7. Oo yay thanks for your comments everyone :) yep chele definitely get a copy of the book..its fab..lots of really cute ideas for decorating too; and anne i cant wait to try some other recipes from it..there are some really uniqie ones in there which i cant wait to try! Thanks hanna for your compliment on the plate...it was my grans and when we were clearing her house out last year it really caught my eye...i have a matching tea cup and saucer..so cute!

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