Cupcake Experiments with Foodie Flavours

Having bought some new intense flavours at Cake International last month from Foodie Flavours, I figured it was about time I tried them out, and what better time than for a get together with friends who can be your guinea pig tasters.

New flavours to try out are....BUBBLEGUM and STRAWBERRY

As it was only the buttercream I was intending to flavour differently I began as i alwasy do with my trusty cupcake recipe, a simple light vanilla sponge but this time I chose to colour it a nice pale pink.

Quick tip....use an ice cream scoop to get an even amount of cake mix into each case, this will help give a nice uniform look to your baked cakes.

After 20-25 minutes in the oven the cakes came out to cool...and my kitchen was smelling lovely!

Once cooled it was time to start the buttercream. I made this simple by mixing up a flavourless batch (250g butter to 500g icing sugar plus a little warm water), once smooth I separated the mix into 2 bowls ready to add flavour and colour.

The strawberry cupcakes were a traditional pink and the bubblegum was blue.

As these were testers the decoration was kept simple.

But I can honestly say they went down well and were delicious!

Foodie Flavours can be purchased from http://www.foodieflavours.com/ 
I will DEFINITELY be getting more of these!