Homemade cupcakes...

[curiousgeorgie]

Through no fault of my own I have been given the task of doing 50 cupcakes for the school Christmas party... 'Homemade and christmassy'

I am not a natural baker. It's not really a gift of mine and every time DD wants to make cakes we buy a Tom and Jerry box mix where all you do is add an egg...

Do you have a fool proof cupcake recipe you could share with me, and could you possibly also tell me how to ice them and make them look Christmassy?!!

(I'm having a bit of a panic now I have to be honest!)

I always use Mary Berry's cupcake recipe. Just ignore the icing part on the recipe I've linked to, but the cake recipe matches the one in my cookbook.

This looks doable.

Or this one.

I am a natural baker but in your position I would think about buying a couple of boxes of the tesco value plain cupcakes (I think there's about 20 in a box and they're probably cheaper than making from scratch) and having lots of fun decorating them with my dcs.

• get the smallest cup cake cases you can
• ordinary icing and gold/silver sprinkles

the 'weigh the egg' method is great

Easy recipe for mince pie cupcakes www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2795/little-mince-pie-cakes

Make in Christmassy cases, dust with snow icing sugar, done.

Ive just put my picture on another thread here, these are dead easy to do. Colour butter-cream blue and cover in snowflake sprinkles (got them in Morrisons) , some are also covered in fondant snowflakes I made using a snowflake cutter. I piped the icing on using a disposable piping bag and icing tip. Then covered in sparkly icing sugar from Asda.