Valentine's DIY - Sweetheart Cupcakes

 

Today's DIY is for some delicious cupcakes. Pink and heart-shaped make them a perfect

Valentine's treat. They'd be great to take to work or for a get together with friends.

40g ground almonds

1/2 tsp baking powder

110g self-raising flour

110g butter

110g caster sugar

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

red food colouring

for the icing: 

75g icing sugar

red food colouring

12 marbles 

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Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.Cream the butter and sugar together.

Beat in the eggs, vanilla extract and a couple drops red food colouring.

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 Stir in the flour mixture until combined

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Spoon the mixture into paper cases, and then tuck a marble into each hole

in the tin, between the case and the tin itself. (This gives you a heart shaped cake :) )

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Bake for 10-15 minutes, and allow to cool fully.

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 Mix the icing sugar with enough water to give the consistency 

of single cream. Add a few drops of food colouring. Pour/spread over each cake.

I added some gold and silver sugar pearls sprinkled over the top of each cake too.

There you have a dozen of the most fabulous looking (and tasting) cakes!