Hello Gadgeteers, this week I have been mostly eating vinyl records. No it’s not that I’ve been developing my taste in music (guffaw), what I mean is I’ve been enjoying cupcakes decorated to look like vinyl LPs. They were lovingly crafted by Anne Nicholls (thanks Mum) to take pride of place atop our three-tier vinyl cake stands and they looked so cool I thought I’d share them with you all.
Ingredients (to make 18):
For the cakes:
100g Margarine
100g Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
100g Self-Raising Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
4 Drops Vanilla Essence
Decoration:
18x Licorice Catherine Wheels
100g Butter / Margerine
200g Icing Sugar
4 Drops Vanilla Essence
1 Tablespoon Milk
Ready made fondant icing (colour of your choice)
Black food colouring
1. It’s your standard cupcake but getting this bit right can be the difference between your cakes being smooth like Barry White or just a gravelly mess like Tom Waits. Preheat the oven to 160C. Put the marge, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and vanilla into a bowl, mix it up and beat for a couple of minutes until smooth and glossy. Divide the mixture equally between 18 paper cake cases and place on a baking tray / cake tray.
2. “Hey good lookin’ What you got cookin’?” It’s the cupcakes Roy, pay attention! They need to be in the oven for about 15-20 minutes until firm to the touch. Don’t open the oven door too early though or they’ll be as flat and lifeless as Florence and the Machine.
3. Hope you like Eric Clapton because there’s plenty of Cream on these babies. Cream the butter or marge until soft, beating the sugar a little at a time. Add the vanilla essence and sufficient milk to give a fairly firm but spreading consistency. Pipe it onto the top of the cake and pop on a licorice wheel.
4. And vinylly… (yeah I’m sorry for that one) you can’t become successful without a record label. Cut a small circle of fondant icing, pop it on top of the catherine wheel and paint the text onto the label with a fine paint brush. Music has never sounded sweeter.
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