Saturday, May 10, 2008

{Baking Craze}

I baked again! This time with Jasmine... and we baked rum & raisin cupcakes! It's a very easy recipe from the 500 cupcakes & muffins recipe book. Esther, I'm putting your wonderful gift to good use, huh? hehe...

I've tagged this page since day 1 cos I know rum & raisin is one of Calvin's favourite flavours. So, as Jas and I were deciding on what to bake, Calvin suggested this.



    Rum & Raisin Cupcakes [makes 1 1/2 dozen]
    Ingredients:
    for the cupcakes
    75g raisins
    3 tbsp dark rum
    225g unsalted butter, softened
    225g caster sugar
    225g self-raising flour
    1 tsp baking powder
    4 eggs

    for the syrup
    5 tbsp dark rum
    2 tbsp light brown sugar

    Method:
    Soak the raisins in the rum for 2-3 hours or overnight to soften them. Drain.

    Preheat the oven to 175 deg C. Place 18 paper baking cases in muffin tins. Combine all the cupcake ingredients in a large bowl and beat with an electric whisk until smooth and pale, about 2-3 minutes. Stir in the sultanas. Spoon the batter into the cases. Bake for 20 minutes.

    While the cupcakes are in the oven, combine the syrup ingredients in a pan. Over low heat, dissolve the sugar in the rum. Simmer for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat. Remove tins from the oven. With a toothpick, prick 5 holes in each cupcake and pour the warm syrup over them. Then remove the cupcakes and cool on a rack.
We made 2 batches and we ended up with 48 mini cupcakes. Each batch that went into the oven, we modified some parts of the recipe. We both preferred the last batch where we stirred in the rum syrup into the batter before baking. That gave a bit more rum taste to the cupcakes and also gave them a bit more moisture. We love our products!! (^__*)


P.S. I'm already planning for another baking session.. :p [oh... notice my new hairdo??]

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