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making your cupcakes

There are many recipes for making cupcakes but the Madeira recipe on page 16 works perfectly well. The 2-egg mixture will make about 12 cupcakes so double or triple the amounts if you need more. Feel free to add chocolate chips, dried fruit, or even a dash of food coloring if you wish.

1 Pre-heat the oven to 300°F (150° C) and place your cupcake cases into the baking tray. Nowadays there’s a huge range of paper and foil cupcake cases available in all sorts of fancy colors and designs. You can also buy silicon cases which are very bright, colorful and also re-useable.

2 Mix up the batter.

3 Spoon the batter into the cupcake cases. The easiest way to do this is using two teaspoons. Use one to scoop a spoonful of batter out of the bowl. Use the other to push it off the first spoon into the cake case. Doing it this way should also stop your fingers from getting sticky. Fill the cake case about two thirds full.

4 Bake for about 25 minutes until the cakes are golden and springy to the touch.