Raspberry Surprise cup cakes


(24 cup cakes) Ingredients:


345g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 225g softened butter 345g caster sugar 4 eggs (beaten) 10 tbsp milk


24 fresh raspberries


Ingredients for the butter cream:


300g icing sugar (sifted)


700g butter (softened) 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 tbsp milk


Method:


Preheat oven to 180°C and line a cupcake baking tray.


Place butter and caster sugar in a bowl and beat until creamy. Sift in flour and baking powder, carefully folding into the ingredients.


Add in eggs, one at a time, beating each new addition well. Add milk and beat the mixture into a thick-ish consistency.


Spoon the mixture into the cupcake tray, up to about half full and place a raspberry in each one. Top with the remaining cake mixture.


Place into to the centre of the oven for 15 - 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes, then empty from the tray and leave on wire to cool.


Ice with required design either using butter cream or fondant.


Purrrfect cakes for every occasion.


Contact Sarah-Jane 0780 15 11 274


www.minkykittencakes.co.uk Have fun cooking


with children... Cooking with your toddler or pre-school chiId can be a great bonding experience as well as a fun and a fantastic way to pass a rainy afternoon! It helps to encourage healthy eating and a general interest in all kinds of food from an early age and also provides many useful learning experiences.


Mathematics - counting out ingredients (eg 3 eggs), learning about “more than” or “less than”


Language & Logic Skills - learning lots of cook- ing vocabulary in a fun way, as well as following instructions in order


Science - learning where ingredients come from (eg eggs from chickens, milk from cows), and about changing materials (juice becomes ice lollies when frozen, liquid cake mixture becomes solid sponge when cooked)


Physical Skills - holding spoons, mixing, shaking and pouring all help to develop your child’s fine motor skills; and feeling ingredients helps improve their sense of touch


Social Development - in particular if the cooking is done with a sibling or friend, children can learn how to take turns and to enjoy sharing and eating what they have made too!


Tips for Success ...


• young children have short attention spans so give them simple jobs, one at a time


• allow your child to do as many of the cooking tasks as possible (but avoiding sharp knives, hot ovens and other potentially dangerous items of course)


• include the cleaning up as part of the activity Small Steps 29


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