Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes

Ingredients needed for Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes:

125g of Self Raising flour
1 teaspoon of Baking Powder
200g Caster Sugar
4 Eggs
4 tbsp of Lemon Juice
Graded rind of 1 Large Lemon
150ml Sunflower Oil
150 ml Soured Cream

Buttercream Icing:

250g Butter
500g Icing Sugar

Method:

Step 1:- Preheat oven to 180 degrees or gas mark 4. Put cupcake cases in a cupcake or muffin tin.

Step 2:- Sift the flour and baking baking powder into mixing bowl and stir in the caster sugar.

Step 3: In a different bowl, whisk the eggs, soured cream, lemon rind,lemon juice and oil together. Pour liquid ingredients in with the dry ingredients and mix till evenly combined.

Step 4: put mixture into cupcake cases. And make sure it's about 3/4 of the way full. Put into oven for about 20-25 mins until golden brown on top and if poked with a knife in the centre it would come out clean.

Step 5: Allow cakes to cool down completely and start the icing. The butter needs to me at room temperature (not rock solid) otherwise it'll be a nightmare to work with. Next add the sugar slowly do about 100g each time and check if it's tastes okay by trying a bit. If you would like it a bit more sugary then feel free to use more.

Step 6:- Stir mix till they are have a Buttercream texture to it. They put on Cupcakes and decorate as you wish :)

Enjoy :)

Next week: Student Pasta Bake.

Love,

Fran Helsing! x

Long Time no Speak.....Glossybox August 2014! x

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the lack of blogging been super busy with working as was helping out at a play scheme for children with disabilities called LUPS which stands for Let Us Playscheme. This blog post is about this months Glossybox which I accidently ordered two boxes but I love all the products nevertheless. Without any further delay lets get started.

List of Products (from both boxes in order of appearance in photos):

 Philip Kingsley Elasticizer (preshampoo) x2

- Lalique Laligue (perfume) x2

- Kryolan for Glossybox Highlight cashmere [fullsize product] x2

- Essence Longlasting Lipstick in natural beauty [fullsize product] x1

- Yves Rocher Pink Nail Polish in Rose [birthday bonus] x2

- Figs and Rouge Mini Hand Cream x2

- Pep Cosmeceuticals Skinpep Hydra Sun Defence SPF30 Day Cream x1

First Thoughts:

- Love the Essence Lipstick, think it is a perfect colour for all year round.

- interesting packaging from Figs and Rouge *puts handcream on hands,smells it and rubs on hands* wow i love the smell as it smells sweet and refreshing at the same time.

Favourites of this months Glossy box:

- Lalique Laligue as loves the smell as smells very grown up and it in a travel size too which is really handy for if your going out some where nice and want to spray some nice perfume on.

- Essence Longlasting Lipstick in natural beauty is an amazing colour and I love pink lipsticks anyway

- Figs and Rouge Mini Hand Cream

- Yves Rocher Pink Nail Polish in Rose as I'm already wearing it on my nails.

Interested in giving a try:

-Philip Kingsley as never heard of a pre-shampoo before so very interested in trying it out.

- the  Pep Cosmeceuticals Skinpep Hydra Sun Defence SPF30 Day Cream as have used sun defence lots of times of course but want to see what affect it has and what type of a finish it leaves.

 - Kryolan for Glossybox Highlight cashmere as don't really use highlighters that much so definitely want to give this product ago.

That's it for this week I am going to be doing this baking this sunday Lemon dizzle cupcakes :)

So if you want the recipe turn in for sunday's (not) healthy sunday haha.

Enjoy your weekend,

Love Fran Helsing! x