Prep
25 minsBake
25mins & 1h 30minsServes
10Difficulty
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Have cupcakes looked evermore ghostly? Get spooky with your little ones with this moist chocolate cupcake recipe, topped with googly-eyed meringues. We'd say they are more on the cuter side than scary!
To make the chocolate cupcakes (25 minutes for cupcakes)
Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan). Line a muffin tin with 10 cupcake cases and set it aside.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder, set aside.
Cream together the butter and Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Caster Sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add an egg, and whisk to combine. Add the yogurt and whisk again. Gently fold in the sifted flour and cocoa mixture and add 2 Tbsp of milk. Mix until just combined.
Divide the mixture between the cupcake cases and bake for 20-25 minutes until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes, before transferring into a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the meringue ghosts (1h 30minutes for the meringues)
Heat the oven to 120C (100C fan). Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
Put the egg whites into a bowl of an electric mixer and whisk to stiff peaks (when you lift the beaters the egg white forms peaks that don't flop over at the tip).
Add Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar, one tablespoon at a time, whisking back to stiff peaks after each addition, until all the sugar is incorporated. Transfer the mixture into a piping bag fitted with 1 cm plain, round nozzle.
Pipe the meringue ghosts onto the baking sheet. You want them to be roughly about 5cm wide and 4-5cm high. Hold the piping bag vertically to baking sheet and gently squeeze, pulling it up and away gently, to create a peak. Reserve about two tablespoons of the meringue to assemble the cupcakes.
Bake the meringues for 1h 30minutes until crisp. Remove from the oven and allow them to cool completely.
Use the remaining meringue to ‘glue’ the eyes into the ghosts. Top the chocolate cupcakes with the meringues and enjoy!
Ingredients – 8 items
1
For the chocolate cupcakes
Plain flour
Baking powder
Cocoa powder
Unsalted butter
softened
Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Pure Cane Caster Sugar
Large eggs
Natural yoghurt
room temperature
Milk
For the meringue ghosts
Large eggs
whites only
Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Pure Cane Caster Sugar
Black food gel
or sugar eyes for decoration
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Two of our favourite fruity flavours in one delicious scone triangle!
Here`s how to make them:
Ingredients
For the scones
3 tbsp Tate & Lyle Granulated Sugar
Zest of one lemon
175g self raising flour
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
45g unsalted butter
80ml milk
1½ tsp lemon juice (squeeze fresh from the zested lemon)
100g blueberries
A little milk, for brushing the scones
For the glaze (optional)
80g Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar
2-3 tsp lemon juice
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C/390F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a mixing bowl, rub the Tate & Lyle Granulated Sugar and lemon zest together.
Add in the flour, salt and baking powder, stirring everything together.
Tip in the butter and rub in until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Separately in a jug, mix together the milk and lemon juice. Pour into the flour mixture and roughly bring together. Add in the blueberries and mix through evenly, bringing the dough together.
Lightly flour your worktop then tip the dough out, squeezing together to form a disc about 1” thick. Cut into eight wedges, then transfer to the prepared baking sheet.
Lightly brush the tops of each scone with a little milk, then bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes until the scones are baked and golden on top.
For the glaze, mix together the Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar and as much lemon juice as required to achieve the consistency you like. Drizzle over the scones and enjoy!
Yet another dessert mash-up... and this time it`s Battenburg Blondies!
A delicious marzipan chessboard you can`t help but make a move for, it`s your favourite cake with an irresistible new texture...
Serves: 16
Ingredients:
200g unsalted butter
125g Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar
125g Tate & Lyle Soft Light Brown Sugar
¼ tsp salt
¾ tsp almond extract
2 large eggs
225g plain flour, sifted
75g ground almonds
Pink food colouring
6 mini Battenberg cakes (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (fan oven). Line an 8” square loose-bottomed tin with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large microwave-safe bowl, add in the butter and both sugars. Heat in 20-second bursts in the microwave until completely melted. Whisk the ingredients together until fully combined. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes.
Stir in the salt and almond extract, then whisk in the eggs one at a time until completely combined. Tip in the flour and ground almonds and mix again until completely combined.
Divide the blondie mixture equally between two bowls. Colour one of them pink using some food colouring, then transfer both into piping bags. Pipe alternating lines of the mixture in the tin, covering the bottom and using about half of the batter to do so. Shake the tin or use a small knife or spatula to help level the batter, then pipe a second layer of blondie mixture on top of the first, topping the pink lines with plain batter and the plain with pink. Again, shake the tin a little to level the top and fill in any gaps. Don’t worry too much, it will also spread during baking in the oven.
Once all the blondie mixture has been piped, place the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. The blondie is done when the top is pale golden and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean or with a few damp crumbs. Cool completely before slicing.
Once cooled, slice the blondie into 16 squares. Top with a couple of slices of mini Battenberg cake if you wish, using a little apricot jam to hold it in place.
Enjoy!
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Infused with Earl Grey and lemon, these fragrant and floral biscuits are something a little different if you can bear to part with the chocolate digestives...
Recipe below:
Prep Time – 30 mins (4 hours to chill)
Yield – 12 – 16 (dependant on the size of your cutters)
Ingredients
Biscuits
50g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar
250g unsalted butter
2 tbsp of Earl Grey Tea Leaves
220g plain flour
Pinch of salt
Icing
A squeeze of lemon
100g Tate & Lyle Fair Trade – Pure Cane Icing sugar
Instructions
Combine your tea leaves and butter, leaving overnight preferably to infuse. You can cover in a bowl and leave to the side as this mix shouldn’t be chilled.
Add your butter mix to a bowl your sugar and combine, then add the flour salt until a dough forms
Roll out your dough mix until even – about half an inch thick and cut with your biscuit cutter.
Pop onto a baking sheet and into a preheated oven at 180°C/ 160°C fan/ gas mark 4/ 350°F and bake for 15 mins. Keep and eye on them as they can burn quickly.
Whilst they cool make your icing and then drizzle generously once the biscuits are completely cold.
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