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Star recipe<br />
<strong>Mini</strong> <strong>cupcakes</strong><br />
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This recipe makes<br />
8 mini <strong>cupcakes</strong><br />
You will need…<br />
110g soft butter<br />
110g caster sugar<br />
80g plain flour<br />
30g cocoa powder<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
1 medium egg<br />
1 tsp vanilla essence<br />
3 tbsp fromage frais<br />
8 raspberries<br />
Oven<br />
Preheat your oven to<br />
180ºC/350ºF/Gas mark 4<br />
Top tip!<br />
You could use any<br />
leftover mixture in<br />
your muffi n cases<br />
from issue one!<br />
ASK A<br />
GROWN-UP<br />
FOR HELP!<br />
Use this issue’s great gifts to make<br />
tasty mini chocolate <strong>cupcakes</strong>!<br />
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1 Put the butter and sugar 2 Put the flour in a sieve and<br />
in a bowl and beat it until it shake it gently over the bowl<br />
goes pale and feels lighter. until it has all fallen through.<br />
3 Sift the cocoa and baking<br />
powder into the bowl in the<br />
same way.<br />
Sieving the<br />
flour will make<br />
the cakes light<br />
and fluffy!<br />
BACKPACK_07_p06-09_Star_recipe.indd 7 23/02/2012 11:00<br />
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4 Crack the egg into a small<br />
bowl. Make sure no bits of shell<br />
fall in! Pour into your big bowl.<br />
5 Measure out a teaspoon<br />
of vanilla essence, then mix<br />
everything together.<br />
Grown-ups!<br />
You can tell the cakes<br />
are ready when they<br />
have risen above the<br />
rim of the case and<br />
feel fi rm to the touch.<br />
6 Place the cases on a baking 7 Ask an adult to bake your<br />
tray and spoon a little of the cakes for about 20 mins, or<br />
mixture into each one.<br />
until they have risen.<br />
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Place the <strong>cupcakes</strong><br />
on your Dora<br />
serving plate!<br />
Try this!<br />
Here are some other ways<br />
to finish off your cakes...<br />
Use another fruit<br />
on the top such<br />
as a strawberry.<br />
Top with a blob<br />
of fromage frais<br />
and a raspberry.<br />
Tick the one<br />
you like best!<br />
Cut in half and<br />
sandwich with a<br />
little raspberry jam.<br />
Mmm...<br />
¡Delicioso!<br />
SPANISH!<br />
delicious<br />
delicioso<br />
say ‘del-iss-ee-OH-so’<br />
YOU DID IT!<br />
BACKPACK_07_p06-09_Star_recipe.indd 9 23/02/2012 11:01<br />
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