I had intended to bake some cakes yesterday, but other things got in the way, so it had to wait until this afternoon. This time I decided to have a go at Apple and Walnut Cupcakes from The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days cookbook. I misread the recipe to start with, as it tells you to mix together most of the ingredients initially, but lists the butter first, whereas I always weigh my dry ingredients first, so that I can use the same bowl for measuring throughout, so I got the weights and ingredients mixed up, and had to start again. Then, when I’d read the recipe yesterday before I went shopping, I read the wrong amount of cream cheese, so bought some small pots, only to find I was about 200g short, and had to dash to the supermarket before they shut to get some more for the icing. The icing was a bit too thick to pipe easily, so I ended up just spooning over the cakes – not very smoothly, but it tastes lovely so I guess it doesn’t matter too much!
Anyway, it all seems to have turned out well in the end and here’s the finished results:
