Warm Yumminess in a Teacup!

Is it one of those cold rainy days when you don’t feel like doing anything but stay in your house? So isn’t your basic right as a human being to just enjoy a nice sweet treat while curled up next to your heater? So you pad to the kitchen preparing to make the most delicious desert in existence but to your absolute horror THERE ARE NO MORE CUPCAKE CASES!

But don’t worry because you can cook the cupcake in a teacup, yep, you heard me right A TEACUP!

Warm, Delicious Strawberry Cupcakes in a Teacup

All you need to do is get:

- 8tbsp (120mL) of butter; some extra for greasing

-4 tbsp (60mL) of strawberry jam

-115 grams of caster sugar

-2 eggs, lightly beaten

-1 tsp (5mL) vanilla essence

-115 grams of self raising flour

-450 grams of fresh strawberries (you can get non-fresh ones, I suppose, as long as your stomach is strong enough)

-some icing sugar (yeah, I know I’m being kinda vague)

Method:

0. Preheat the oven to a toasty temperature of 180 degrees Celsius

1. Grease 6 heavy and fairly thick teacups with butter. Put 2 spoonfuls of strawberry jam into the bottom of each teacup.

2. Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until it’s light and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs whilst beating, and then add the vanilla essence.

3. Sift in the flour and using a large spoon of some sort fold it into the mixture.

4. Spoon the mixture into the teacups.

5. Place the cups into a roasting tin and then pour in water until it comes up to 1/3 of the way up the side of the cups.

6. Bake them at 180 degrees Celsius for around 40 minutes or until it is well risen and golden brown. If you’re not sure just poke a skewer or chopstick into it and see if it comes out clean. (tip: if the top is over browning place a sheet of foil over it.

7. Once it’s done, leave the cupcakes to cool for a while and then lift them out of the oven and place them on saucers for that extra embellishment.

8. Place a few strawberries on each cupcake and then dust them over with icing sugar for that one final touch (alternatively you could place pink icing on it like in the photo).

Viola! Now you can go curl up like a cat and spend the rest of the day with your six new friends. J