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WE LOVE... GREEN VELVET CUPCAKES pg38 // EARL GREY CUPCAKES pg39 // HAZELNUT MUFFINS pg40

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WWW.FOODHEAVENMAG.COM NOVEMBER baking heaven 37

Strawberry

dream cupcakes

SERVES 12

For the cupcakes

20g (¾oz) freeze-dried strawberries

150g (5½oz) caster sugar

150g (5½oz) self-raising fl our

150g (5½oz) butter or margarine

For the decorating ingredients

400g (14oz) Renshaw Vanilla Frosting

Rainbow Dust Strawberry Colour

ProGel

250g (9oz) Renshaw Poppy Red

Ready-to-Roll Icing

250g (9oz) Renshaw Bottle Green

Ready-to-Roll Icing

Baking the cupcakes

1 Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with

12 paper cases. Preheat the oven to

160°C/Gas Mark 3.

2 Crush the dried strawberries in a bowl

with the end of your rolling pin or in a

pestle and mortar, until it’s in fine pieces.

3 In a bowl, cream together the butter

and sugar until light and fluffy.

4 Slowly beat the eggs into the mixture.

If the mixture begins to curdle, add

1 tbsp of the flour. Add the crushed

strawberries. Once combined, add the

remaining flour and fold in.

5 Divide the mixture between the

cases. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until

golden and it springs back when

pressed. Allow to cool for 2 minutes,

then remove the cupcakes from the tin

and cool on a wire rack.

Decorating the cupcakes

6 In a bowl, mix 3 tbsp Renshaw Vanilla

frosting with a small drop of Rainbow

Dust Strawberry ProGel. Add more or

less of the food colouring dependant on

your chosen shade of colour.

7 Using a disposable piping bag, snap off

the end and insert a 2D piping nozzle.

8 Line the sides of the piping bag with a

thin layer of the coloured frosting, then

fill the centre of the piping bag with

frosting straight from the pot.

9 Pipe a rose on the top of the

cupcakes. Start to pipe in the centre and

pipe around the top of the cupcake.

10 To make the mini strawberries,

make large pea-sized cones with Poppy

Red Icing, then add markings using the

point of a cocktail stick or pointed tool.

Set to one side.

11 Roll out the Bottle Green icing on a

clean, dry surface dusted with icing

sugar. Use a small blossom cutter to

cute out leaf shapes and attach these to

the strawberry with a small amount

of water, then place onto the piped

flower at the outside join.

By Renshaw (renshawbaking.com)