Baking with friends

Baking and Eating with friends has to be one of the best pass times.

Last Friday night, one of my friends came over and we had homemade burgers for dinner, and baked cupcakes for tea after. 

We used a basic pound cake variation recipe adding bits and pieces. Some had banana, some had chocolate chips and some had both.

How we made our super easy, super tasty cupcakes.

Ingredients: (per 6 cupcakes)

3 tablespoons of unsalted butter

3 tablespoons of sugar

3 tablespoons of self raising flour

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Extras - dark chocolate chips (lots), 1 mashed banana

Method:

-pre heat oven to 180 degrees C

-cream the butter and sugar, until well combined

-add one tablespoon of flour, and mix

-lightly whisk the egg before adding to the mixture

-once the mixture is well combined add the rest of the flour and mix until well combined

-now is the time to add anything else you want, vanilla, chocolate chips, and banana. The banana will make the cakes more moist, so you may need to add another spoon of flour.

-bake for 12-15minutes

We iced the cakes with a vanilla butter cream icing, and decorated with chocolate shavings.

Yummy :)