The girls love baking and cooking, cupcakes are the latest craze over here, so we booked onto a 'decorating' course for a day in Parnell. It's based at 'Millie's Cookshop' and was quite a surprise..
The shop has a section to it which is a cooking school, complete with demonstration kitchen, tables and all the equipment an aspiring chef could ever dream of! There were 'cups' to make cupcakes in (when we all know the name originally came from the amounts in the cake 'a cup of flour, a cup of sugar' not what it was baked in!)
We had to take our own aprons, but everything else was provided and the fun began! It was very hands on, the girls were fully occupied and I was distracted by all the goodies in the shop section and spent a small fortune...
They made Cookie Monster cupcakes, flowers, clowns, meadows, bee hives and more, and of course, my girls were the best..
It was difficult to resist until we got home and had a cupcake fest - of course, the next day, when I arrived home they'd made a whole batch more - so we're cupcaked out!
here's an 1833 recipe for you to try..
"Cup cake. Cup cake is about as good as pound cake, and is cheaper. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs, well beat together, and baked in pans or cups. Bake twenty minutes, and no more."---American Frugal Housewife, Mrs. Child
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