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55Total Time
25Prep Time
30Bake Time
12Serves
Easy

Poppy Cupcakes

3 Reviews

About the bake

A great treat for Remembrance Sunday with a cup of tea watching the procession… If you can't get hold of the different colours of sugar paste icing, just buy white and then colour it with red and black food colouring.  

55Total Time
25Prep Time
30Bake Time
12Serves
Easy

Method

  1. Step 1:

    Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan 160°C, gas mark 4) and line a muffin tin with 12 cupcake cases.

  2. Step 2:

    Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the eggs one by one mixing after each one.

  3. Step 3:

    Sift the flour and carefully fold into the mixture. Then stir in the vanilla extract.

  4. Step 4:

    Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are approximately ½ full. Then bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool.

  5. Step 5:

    To decorate, roll out some of the white icing until it is about 4-5mm thick, then cut a disc about the same size as the top of the cupcake. Brush the top of the cake with some warmed apricot jam, then position the icing on top.

  6. Step 6:

    Next roll out some of the red icing and using a flower cutter cut out some flowers. Place the flower onto a folded tea towel and use your fingers to carefully thin out the petals so that they start to curl.

  7. Step 7:

    Place these on the top of the cupcake using water to glue it to the white icing. To finish take small pieces of black icing and roll into a ball then squash it slightly. Attach this to the centre of each poppy flower again using some water.

Ingredients

  • For the cakes

    • 250g Butter (unsalted)
    • 250g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
    • 4 Egg(s) (free range) (medium)
    • 250g Allinson's Self Raising Flour
    • 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
  • For the decoration

    • 1 tbsp Apricot Jam
    • 300g White sugar paste icing
    • 250g Red sugar paste icing
    • 50g Black sugar paste icing

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