So for my step mum’s 50th birthday, I baked. On day one, brownies, made with 20 ounces of chocolate. Day two brought fluffy white cupcakes, which were more like little pound cakes than the overly sugary cupcake. Though they weren’t quite a pound each. In day three came icing and sprinkles. Fit for any birthday party.

I love the colour of the icing.

 

Incredibly chocolatey.

The white bits are chunks of white chocolate. They were well taken at the party.

The recipes for these came from Nigella Lawson’s book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess. This book is fabulous. By far my favourite cooking book so far. The icing recipe, however, came from my father, which he learned to make from my great aunt. Bless her. I’m not sure he’d appreciate me posting his cupcakes but I want to anyway, his icing came out too thick and thus did not spread very well. These are not lemon cupcakes, just cupcakes with bright yellow icing.

 

They should be lemon, don’t you think?

His also had an issue with sprinkles. The icing dried too fast. Lesson learned. He made a good effort so let’s applaud him anyway.