I had a few hours to myself at the weekend so I curled up with Martha Stewart’s fabulous Living magazine. There are so many delicious recipes and bits and bobs in it ……but I started with the back page where there are the most delicious looking cupcakes…..and I’m sure by now you must all realise that I love cake!
Warning these are absolutely delicious, moreish and not at all sickly…..you could probably be persuaded to polish off at least two in one sitting!
I couldn’t get nectarines as in the recipe so used peaches instead.
Ingredients
For the Cakes
- 160g self raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 70ml full fat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 85g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 170g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 medium peaches,peeled,pitted and chopped finely
For the Topping
- 240ml double cream
- 120ml sour cream
- 3 tablespoons caster sugar
- 1 peach sliced very finely to decorate
- Preheat oven to 180ºC
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together
- Stir together the milk and vanilla extract
- Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time with the mixer running.
- Beat in a third of the flour alternating with the milk mixture until all combined.
- Line a muffin tin with cases and add one tablespoon of mixture into each case. Add a heaped tablespoon of chopped peach and then top with two tablespoons of mixture.
- Bake for about 25 minutes or until the edges are starting to turn golden. Leave to cool.
- Whisk the sour cream, cream and sugar to medium peaks. Top the cakes with a generous helping of the cream and decorate with peach slices.
- Enjoy….and try not to eat all at once.
Makes 12 extremely lovely cupcakes!
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Those look utterly amazing (am thinking you may have a new career in the baking industry – you make everything look so pretty!). When I have a moment – I will somehow figure out how to convert all that to “American” & make them ASAP.
Hopefully you got my conversion. XX
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Melt-in-you-mouth yummy looking! I was reading your ingredients and chuckled to myself…I need to check online how to switch from standard to metric measurements 🙂
I converted the recipe myself so here it is in American measurements:
1 1/4 cups flour
1/3 cup whole milk
6 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sour cream.
All of the other ingredients are the same
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These really do look lovely – I can almost taste the icing now… Mmmm… Yep, I would think I could manage to eat at least 2 lol…!:)
I find cream makes me feel ill but these are very moreish…..not very good for my waistline though! 😉
Ooooh yummy! I think I might give these a go
they really are…and didn’t last long enough! 😉
Absolutely beautiful. Love the delicate little wafers of peach on the top too. Adorable.
Thank you, they tasted good too. 😀 x