Strawberry Cupcakes

honestly the best cupcakes I've made recently. They smell so good !

The recipe by Claire Ptak on the Guardian website is a winner. It's easy to make, and the fresh strawberry puree makes it unique - you can smell the fruit inside.
Double quantities made 2 1/2 dozen, so a little batter goes a long way.

Hummingbird Bakery: Strawberry Cupcakes

The coming together of two great institutions - Hummingbird Bakery and Park Side Farm in Enfield has meant that we were able to produce this fab creation. Granny & Grandpa are visiting so we went to do some PYO at our local, Parkside. We picked punnets and punnets of strawbs (honestly, you can't believe how much we came home with!) and I'd got the Hummingbird recipe off Charlotte. It took a day or two to get all the ingredients prepped and little people at the ready, but we now have a plate of 15 cupcakes with strawberries at the bottom, vanilla sponge on top of that, and then a cream cheese icing topping, finished with crumbled digestive biscuits. The combination of which is quite sublime.

it's tennis season : wimbledon cake

This is a great little recipe, again from Mary Berry : Wimbledon Cake. I'd never baked with semolina before, but it's simple enough and produces a very very light cake (you fold the egg yolks, sugar and semolina into the stiffly beaten egg whites). I decided to engineer a cupcake version for easier consumption. It worked. Quite delish in the hot weather.