Curly Wurly Cupcakes

Something is wrong with me. I've suddenly become extremely interested in getting the children into the kitchen and us creating some yummy cakes.

I don't know why as this is often Harvey's way of "helping."

We had some Curly Wurly chocolate bars in the house so we decided to use those up in a cake rather than just eating straight from the packet.


Alyssa's "chocolate" mix

60g unsalted butter
60g caster sugar
50g self-raising flour
10g cocoa powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 egg

Harvey's mix

60g butter
45g light soft brown sugar
60g self-raising flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 egg

(the original recipe called for 1tbsp golden syrup but we'd used all of that up on pancakes previously so we didn't worry with that bit)

They each had a bowl and had to cream together the butter and sugar. Add in all the rest of the ingredients and beat it altogether.

They then had to put a teaspoon each into their 12 silicone cupcake cases.

"off you go....get all hot and yummy." ~ Harvey

Harvey does like to talk to his cakes. (I suppose it's like some gardeners believing that if you talk to the plants they will grow better.)

I put them into the pre-heated oven at 190c / 170C fan / Gas mark 5.

They spent 20 minutes in there until looked lovely and golden. Allow to cool and remember not to eat any as they need some frosting!

Frosting mixture

1 and a half bars of chopped up Curly Wurly.
3 tbsp double cream
1 tbsp caster sugar
275g icing sugar
75g butter
1 tbsp milk

Melt the Curly Wurly, double cream and cater sugar in a suacepan stirring all the time. That was Harvey's job as it likes to stir. (In more ways than one!)   Leave to cool slightly.

Rb the butter and icing sugar together in a bowl with the back of a wooden spoon. Alyssa's job and she has a question for you all ~ "why does it have to be a wooden spoon?"

Once combined, add the milk and then 1.5tbsp of the Curly Wurly sauce to it. Whisk until lovely and fluffy.

The original recipe calls to pipe the frosting onto the cake but we just "dolloped it" on. You then just need to drizzle over some of the Curly Wurly sauce. Decorate with chopped up bits of another Curly Wurly ...... if you haven't eaten it whilst baking!

WARNING ~ this frosting is incredibly sweet and you do get lots of it on each cake. Next time I may double the amount of cakes for that quantity of frosting.

The original recipe we 'sort of' followed can be found here http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/658608

No avoiding the washing up when you are baking.