Cupcakes Of Hope
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One Cupcake Recipe, 3 Flavours
This versatile cupcake recipe can be altered to make three different flavoured cupcakes.
Vegan Cupcakes Recipe
Makes 12 Ingredients: 250ml soy, oat or rice milk 1 tsp white vinegar 180ml sugar 80ml vegetable oil 1 tsp vanilla extract 120g (250ml) cake flour 80ml cocoa powder ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees...
Marshmallow Frosting Recipe
Makes enough to frost 12 cupcakes Ingredients: 4 large egg whites 120g (250ml) white sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract Method: Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl over gently simmering water until hot to the touch. Remove from the heat. Use an electric beater with a whisk...
3 Frostings you Need to Make Recipe
Ermine Frosting Makes enough to frost 12 cupcakes Ingredients: 35g cake flour 100g white sugar Pinch of fine salt 250ml milk 225g unsalted butter ½ tsp vanilla essence Method: Whisk the flour, sugar, salt and milk together in a saucepan. Place over low heat and cook...
Cupcakes in an Air-fryer Recipe
The secret to making perfect cupcakes in an air fryer is to use silicone or foil cupcake cases. The strong airflow in the air fryer can otherwise cause your cupcakes to distort so don’t be tempted to skip this step.
Two-Ingredient Condensed Milk Buttercream Recipe
This genius frosting recipe is easy to whip up and tastes delicious too! Turn it into virtually any flavour by adding cocoa powder, peanut butter, caramel, fruit puree or flavour extracts.
Low Sugar Frosting Recipe
Better known as Ermine, roux or flour buttercream, this delicious frosting is made using a cooked pudding mixture which adds creaminess, reduces the sugar content and is a great budget-saving way of bulking up frosting, too!
Low Sugar Cupcakes Recipe
This moist and fluffy cupcake recipe uses much less sugar than the average cupcake recipe. If you’d like to reduce the sugar content even further, replace some or even all of the sugar with a sugar replacer such as xylitol.
Wow, check out this NEW pediatric oncology clinic
Earlier this year we received a request from Dr Tanya Schickerling to assist with decorating her new paediatric oncology clinic at the Netcare Alberton Hospital. We were super excited as this meant that for the first time children from the south of Johannesburg would...
Cancer Survivor Day 2022
JUST WHO IS YOUR CANCER HERO? That is the question on everyone's lips. As we approach June we remember that it's time to honour the cancer heroes and heroines that have touched our lives in a big or small way. Take some time to reflect and think about anyone you know...