CUP CAKES WITH MUSK ICING
I went a bit Plath yesterday and spent the day in the kitchen. I made sweets galore, which I am going to blog soon. Hope that's ok for what has been up until now a savoury blog. I think they should have Ardi's approval if amount of sweets consumed is anything to go by.
So, this is a Cibis family classic, first encountered in the dubiously titled 'Nursing Mothers Cookbook'. Nursing, as in breast feeding. It's the BASIC PLAIN CAKE recipe that works equally well as a cake, as apposed to a cup cake, you just cook it for 45 minutes instead of 15.
CUP CAKES:
250g of self raising flour 1/2 a cup of milk
125g of butter 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla
125g of castor sugar 1/2 a teaspoon of salt
2 eggs (well beaten)
Set Oven to 180 degrees. Cream together sugar and butter using an electric beater, untill pale and creamy. Add eggs, whilst continuing to beat. Add remaining dry and wet ingredients alternately, whilst still continuing to beat. Divide into patty pans. Bake for 15 minutes.
ICING:
12 musk sticks 125g of butter
1/2 a cup of icing sugar 1/4 of a cup of water
Crumble musk sticks as much as possible. Mix all ingredients together until combined.
I cheated and added some food dye to make the icing pinker. Also note the musk stick stars used to decorate the cakes. They are achieved by cutting cross sectionally through the musk sticks. Imogen originally introduced me to this idea.
I went a bit Plath yesterday and spent the day in the kitchen. I made sweets galore, which I am going to blog soon. Hope that's ok for what has been up until now a savoury blog. I think they should have Ardi's approval if amount of sweets consumed is anything to go by.
So, this is a Cibis family classic, first encountered in the dubiously titled 'Nursing Mothers Cookbook'. Nursing, as in breast feeding. It's the BASIC PLAIN CAKE recipe that works equally well as a cake, as apposed to a cup cake, you just cook it for 45 minutes instead of 15.
CUP CAKES:
250g of self raising flour 1/2 a cup of milk
125g of butter 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla
125g of castor sugar 1/2 a teaspoon of salt
2 eggs (well beaten)
Set Oven to 180 degrees. Cream together sugar and butter using an electric beater, untill pale and creamy. Add eggs, whilst continuing to beat. Add remaining dry and wet ingredients alternately, whilst still continuing to beat. Divide into patty pans. Bake for 15 minutes.
ICING:
12 musk sticks 125g of butter
1/2 a cup of icing sugar 1/4 of a cup of water
Crumble musk sticks as much as possible. Mix all ingredients together until combined.
I cheated and added some food dye to make the icing pinker. Also note the musk stick stars used to decorate the cakes. They are achieved by cutting cross sectionally through the musk sticks. Imogen originally introduced me to this idea.
1 comment:
Hello,
I am looking for a Cibis family that lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 60s, maybe later. Can you help? My email address is ckittyroo@aol.com.
Thanks,
Tony
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