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Nigellas Lavendar Cupcakes Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Auntybea / All my dishes 1 year, 5 months ago This is Nigella's recipe and picture of her lavendar cupcakes. The recipe calls for lavendar sugar, which she says can be made by cutting up a few lavender sprigs and keeping them in a jar of castor sugar for a few days. Prep:5m Cook:20m Servings:12	Auntybea
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Ingredients

FOR THE CUPCAKES:

125g self-raising flour

125g very soft unsalted butter

125g lavender sugar, sieved

2 eggs

pinch salt

few tablespoons milk

FOR THE ICING:

250g Instant Royal Icing powder

violet food colouring paste

handful real lavender stalks

Directions

Preheat the oven to 200ºC/gas mark 6 and line a 12-bun cupcake or muffin tin with paper cases. Take butter, eggs and milk out of the fridge in time to make sure they're at room temperature.

Put all the ingredients for the cupcakes, except for the milk, into the bowl of a food processor, fitted with a double-bladed knife, and blitz till totally combined. Process again, adding enough milk to make a batter with a smooth, flowing texture, then remove the blade and spoon and scrape the batter equally into the waiting cupcake cases.

Bake for about 20 minutes, by which time the sponge should be cooked through and springy to the touch. Remove from the oven, leave for 5 minutes or so, then arrange the cupcakes in their paper cases on a wire rack to cool.

Once they're cool, you can get on with the icing. You want the icing to sit thickly on the cupcakes not run off them, and you can aid this by cutting off any risen humps with a sharp knife first, so that each cake is flat-topped.

Make the icing and dye the mixture a faint lilac with a spot or two of food colouring.

Top each pretty-pale cupcake with a little sprig of lavender before the icing's set dry.

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Comments

justjakesmom 1 year, 5 months ago said:
OK So you know I don't bake! these sound good, but . . . . You know I don't bake

liezel 1 year, 5 months ago said:
This sounds and looks awesome. Really love the colour! Thanks soooo much for sharing!

mumtazcatering 1 year, 5 months ago said:
Yummmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyy.......:]
awesome....................:}
Mumtaz

silverqueen 1 year, 5 months ago said:
Got my 5 sound really good to will make thes next week for our ladies luncheon at church.

Silver

kjroxx 1 year, 5 months ago said:
These are too pretty not to make! Great post, thanks.

morninlite 1 year, 5 months ago said:
I've not baked with flowers...yet! I've wanted to try it since Christmas time. Thanks for giving me a recipe to try.

jeffsgirl 1 year, 5 months ago said:
Lavendar is my favorite color.Anything in purple and I am drawn to it.These are so lovely. I have always wanted to bake with flowers also.Thank-you for this beautiful recipe.Here is a 5 for you.

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