Drizzle cake question

[MrsDoolittle]

I haven't done this before but I've been dying to for ages.

Can I use stork instead of butter or does it have to be butter?

Can I put it into little cake cases in a bun tin?

TIA

Stork is fine.
Don't see why not - will cook quicker though. I use 2 loaf tins rather than 1 big tin and it works fine.

AH, I've wondered that. What about the drizzling - will it work with little cakes? I rather love the idea of mini lemon drizzle cupcakes.

That's great - you don't think they won't taste as good?

It's just the drizzling with the syrup - will it work as well, do you think?

Tell you what, you do it and report back?

They probably won't taste quite as good, no, but they'll be fine. Butter is obviously a superior taste I've made chocolate cake with dairy fre spread before and it's been absolutely fine.

No reason the drizzling won't work, no.

I've made Nigella's version i nlittle mini loaf tins and they've taken the syrup OK.

MI, Did I recommend a Corgi plumber to you once??

No, sorry, no. Although we do have a rather lovely plumber called Rosie, whose number I might be able to find.

I'll use coffee spoons to drizzle the lemon onto the little cakes

Will let you know.... Going to do it now

Wheres MarsLady these days ??

Silly question but what SHOULD the drizzle bit actually look like, colour, consistency etc?

Okay, I have put into 12 cupcakes and a loaf tin.

Should I put the icing on after I've turned it out of the loaf tin?

Hmm... I do it before but I line my tin with a loaf shaped paper case. I think I'd still do it before taking it out of the tin.

Polgara, I make some up as a syrup so it soaks into the cake. Then I make some up as icing consistency to ice the top.

Aha thanks Soupdragon. I DON'T bake but was tempted so much by the famous lemon drizzle cake I have actually made 2 last week!! First one I ended up with the syrupy (well watery actually!) consistency and the second with the icing so wasn't sure which was actually right. But like the sound of your instruction so will do that next time - coz I'm on a roll here you know even made things for the school fair (dh nearly fell over!!).

Hmmmmmmmm - it's tastes better today than it did yesterday

I think even MarsLady herself says you can do the icing bit however you like!

I presume your cupcake versions turned out OK then MrsD?

To be honest I was a little disappointed with those. The simply ddn't look appetising enough, more like plain fairy cakes and I think they lacked the lovely 'cakey' texture in the loaf.
So I will give them another go, but in deep muffin tins, I think and I would give them a thick white lemon icing on top. Maybe grate some lemon over the top, as in the long swirls IYSWIM?

Yes, I know what you mean