So, I've bent under the mounting pressure to make cupcakes. Every food blog I visit is making cupcakes, red velvet ones, carrot ones, ginger and caramel ones - you name the flavouring, it's out there in blogland. There are two reasons I don't bake these days. One - Adriano and Dario prefer not to eat sweet food. Two - I have very little time with a full time job. But this weekend is Easter and so the time issue doesn't exist and I do happen to like sweet food so, if absolutely pressed to, I can eat them all. The criteria for what sort I would make rested with the ingredients I had in the cupboard. Vanilla and lemon mightn't be a traditional combination but that's what I came up with. Vanilla in the batter and lemon in the icing. It was really quite simple - a bit of sifting, a bit of beating and the cakes were done. While they baked, I threw the icing together and searched high and low for my icing piping set. You know what I mean - that bag thing with different shaped nozzles to make … [Read more...] about Lemon & Vanilla Beauties – my first attempt at the all-popular cupcakes