Easy cupcakes and brownies
December 26, 2007 kitchen trials 7 CommentsIt has be
en a long time since I ‘reported’ any kitchen trials of mine but I could assure you that the kitchen has been really busy with many of them! Ok, I’m no pro at cooking and that’s why it’s categorized as ‘kitchen trials’. So, expect non-perfection of my doing though the little knowledge shared is InshaAllah useful, plus, I will only share/recommend recipes that I’ve successfully tried. I’ve found an easy cupcake recipe from the net that I’ve been using to make lovely cupcakes these days. I can’t remember from which site it was but it might be from Cooks.com. I will usually get a few recipes to compare, choose the easiest and alter to my needs or likings. But this recipe works praise be to Allah so I didn’t do much alteration with it. And here it is;
2 large eggs
125g/4oz soft margarine (I used vegetable fat spread)
125g/4oz self-raise flour (so you won’t need other raising agents)
125g/4oz sugar (increase or decrease as you wish, I usually decrease ‘em)
1 -2 tsp vanilla essence (as much as you need and sometimes I use banana which tastes really fine)
Turn this recipe into brownies by adding 225g cooking chocolate/white choc; add in hazelnuts/walnuts if desired. If you’re measuring with a cup, everything’s equivalent to 1, except sugar would be 1/3 of it. If you have a mixer than just put everything together. But if you’re a manual chef like me, follow these simple steps:
Cream butter and sugar. Throw in the eggs … yes, just throw them in and beat them until everything’s well mixed. Fold in half the flour; mix well and then throw in the rest. I do like ‘throwing’ recipes - hassle free they are ;). Fill them into the cups; only 1/3 if you’d like a topping afterwards. Otherwise filling 1/2 the cups would be fine. Bake for 18-20 mins, Gas Mark 4.
Left pic: My cuppy brownies, topped with buttercream.
Right pic: The ‘failing’, runny butter cream decoration. Never never never trust recipes without trying them out first! 
