Vanilla Buttercream Recipe

This recipe with ice and cover a 9inch cake, or 12 cupcakes!

Ingredients

• 125g Unsalted Butter (half a block)
• 250g Icing Sugar (half a bag of Tate & Lyle)
• 1teaspoon vanilla essence
• Colouring (optional!)

Equipment

• Mixer
• Scales
• Spatula

Time to mix

1. Soften the butter before putting it into the mixing bowl and mix until smooth,
2. Slowly add the icing sugar and mix together until all the ingredients are combined.
3. Add the teaspoon of vanilla essence and food colouring if using. Use the spatula to push all ingredients together so that you get an even colour through the icing.
4. Mix the icing for around 3-5 minutes to get it smooth and creamy.

Use a knife to sandwich together the large cake (add a layer of jam too if you like!) Then ice around the edges and the top.
Fill an icing bag half full of buttercream and pipe onto the cupcakes, or alternatively hand ice them with a knife.
Done!

Basic Sponge Cake Recipe

This recipe is so simple and the base recipe for most flavours of cupcakes that Crumbs creates.
Its also really easy to remember, you will soon get to know it off by heart and be baking without looking at the recipe!
You can make around 12 muffin sized Cupcakes with this recipe. Or double the quantity to make a 3 layered 9 inch cake!

You will need...

Ingredients

• 3 Medium Sized Eggs
• 180g Self Raising Flour
• 180g Caster Sugar
• 180g Soft Margarine (Stork)

Equipment

• Mixer
• Kitchen Scales
• Spatula
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon
• Muffin Tray & 12 Cupcake Cases
• 3 lined 9" tins (if making large cake)

Time to Bake!

1. First place your mixing bowl on top of the scales.
2. Next crack all of the eggs into the bowl, then add Self Raising Flour, Caster sugar and lastly the Margarine.
3. Then mix, until all of the ingredients are combined together and it looks silky smooth (Yes, it really is that easy!)
4. Lastly place the Cupcake Cases into the Muffin Tin and spoon the mixture into each case, using the table spoon and scraping off with the teaspoon so that you get a similar amount in each case.
   If you have doubled the recipe and are making a large cake then divide your mixture between the 3 lined tins and smooth evenly with a spatula.

Put the Cupcakes in the oven for 18 minutes. 200degrees/fan oven 180degrees. 

Larger cakes in the oven for around 35 minutes. 170degrees/fan oven 150degrees.

     Leave to cool before icing.

Cupcakes iced with vanilla buttercream! recipe to follow..

First Crumbs Post!

Ive never done a blog before so don't really know what i am doing, hear its quite easy so i thought i'd have a go! I started a small Cake Business from home officially in March this year, very difficult & hard work but i love it at the same time! I thought i would share a few photos, recipes, ideas and things that are going on in the Crumbs world with anyone whos interested! I'll leave you with a photo of my favourite cakes i've done recently. Hope you enjoy!