Battenburg Cupcakes!

Very busy day baking today for my littlest man's Christening but I couldn't resist creating a new cupcake, and here it is; my Battenburg Cupcake! It is a really easy cupcake to make and I think it looks really cute. I hope they do down well tomorrow!

Yummy Mummy's Battenburg Cupcakes

Makes 12

Cakes:

6oz/150g self raising flour,

6oz/150g castor sugar,

6oz/150g Stork,

3 large eggs,

3 tsp of almond extract,

Pink food colouring.

Buttercream icing:

6oz/150g Stork,

12oz/300g icing sugar,

1-2 tsp of almond extract,

Yellow food colouring,

3 mini battenburgs (I used Mr Kiplings).

1. Preheat oven to 190C/gas mark 5.

2,Mix together the self raising flour, castor sugar, Stork, eggs and almond extract. Separate the mixture into 2 equal amounts.

3. Colour one half pink and leave the other half plain.

4. Spoon 1 tsp of pink cake mixture and 1 tsp of plain cake mixture into the bottom of each cake case.

5. Repeat on top, putting pink on top of plain and plain on top of pink. This should give a sort of 'battenburgy' look then when cut/bitten.

6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until springy on top.

7. Leave to cool completely.

8. Mix together the Stork, icing sugar, almond extract and yellow food colouring together to make the buttercream.

9. Use a piping bag and nozzle to pipe the icing on in swirls, or you could use a knife to spread it on if you prefer.

10. Cut thin slices of mini battenburg and pop on top!

Voila!

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