A Relaxing Weekend

Thank you for your comments on yesterdays post, I am glad it made you smile and yes I am very proud of Aidan for doing so well :-)

I have had a lovely relaxing long weekend, I have read, baked, cross stitched, spent time with Family and it was just what was needed before I begin my 1st week of working Full Time in over 2 and a half years, bit daunted by it but I am sure it will be fine when I work out a routine.

The oven is in and working now which is wonderful, and this morning I christened it by baking some Beetroot Cupcakes. They are moist, absolutely delicious and not at all Earthy as I feared.

The recipe is from "Eat Me by Cookie Girl"

3 Large Eggs
2 tbsp Milk
100ml Sunflower oil
110g Caster sugar
100g Plain flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
85g Grated Raw Beetroot
55g Roasted Hazelnuts
1/2 tsp Cinnamon

Icing
110g Unsalted Butter
110g Cream Cheese
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
450g Icing sugar (I actaully only used 300g)
I also added a tiny amount of pink food colouring

• Preheat oven to 170c / Gas 3, line 12 hole muffin tin with paper cases
  
• Whisk the yolks and milk together.
  
• In a seperate bowl whisk the oil and sugar together and add this to the egg mixture
• Sift the flour and baking powder to the batter.
  
• Add the beetroot, hazelnuts, and cinnamon.
• In a clean bowl whisk egg whites until they form stiff peaks, gently fold this into the pink batter.
• Divide the mixture between the paper cases and bake for approx 20 mins, allow to cool on a wire rack when cooked.
• For the Icing, whisk the butter and cream cheese together. Then add the vanilla extract, pink colouring and add the icing sugar a little at a time until fully combined. Pipe the icing onto the cakes or spread it onto them with a palette knife.

I hope you have all had a relaxing weekend too x x