I think these were the Cupcakes that I was looking forward to the most. They caught my eye when I first throught about doing all of this and I was just so excited for them. And they are lovely. Well, I am a massive fan of them. Others however, are less convinced. Also there are many stages to the making of the cupcakes.
Stage the first, you have to make something called a "Lemon Cream" - see video - I realised this was lemon curd after I'd done most of the making of it. Oh dear, and I made it a little runny because of this. Faux pas. But now I have half a jar of runny curd as a by-product - good save, especially on crumpets (jar in right picture). Making this curd was all about heating, in yes, a bain maries and whisking for ever, and it still wasn't quite right.
Stage the second, making the cupcakes. You know, I'm gettin quite familiar with how Wagman thinks. So I made the cakes, no probs. Decided as magnificent a cake as these deserved to be only made in Monster Muffin size, so you know, they satisfied.
Third stage, cutting little pits out of the cakes and putting the runny curd in. Cake mining I call it. Pretty fun and you get little nibbles of cake to have. Nice.
Fourth stage, making meringue and putting it on top and then putting the cakes back in the oven. Phew. At this point we talked about meringue and how crispy merignue is best. Difficult, however to make a crispy meringue without drying out the cake as crispy meringue really needs to cook for ages. So ignored that and made sticky meringue, only a few minutes in the oven.
And then you could eat them, and my are they tasty!
Yet, the Daisy-o-meter liked them, but preferred the orgasmic brownie and Rachel said they were nice in a very polite manner. Steph however thinks they may be the best so far. I like that opinion.
Despite the many stages, they only felt like a faff cos I was really hungover. Not cos they are finicky. (I do defend things I love, but other diss, like Trawlermen.)
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