Quick Lemon Cupcake Recipe

                                       

Lemon Cupcakes

I have recently started to really enjoy baking and in years to come I hope to get Alfie to help with the fun too! So, here is a simple lemon cupcake recipe but you could remove the lemon ingredients and add different flavourings!

Ingredients:

175g Caster Sugar

175g Self Raising Flour

175g Butter (softened)

1/2 tsp of Baking Powder

3 large eggs

1/2 tsp of Vanilla Extract

Peel of 2 lemons and juice of 1 lemon

Buttercream Icing:

350g Icing Sugar

175g Butter (softened)

Peel of 1 lemon

Juice of 1/2 a lemon 

How to:

Put all the ingredients for the sponge mix in one bowl and use an electric whisk to mix until smooth. Divide mixture into the 12 cupcake cases (usually 3/4 in each case)  and put in a preheated oven of 180 degrees for 20-25 mins or when they are firm and spongy to touch. 

To make the icing put the butter, icing sugar, lemon juice and half the lemon peel in a bowl and prepare to have an icing sugar cloud in your kitchen! Mix until smooth or to required consistency and put in an icing bag and ice away....use the remaining peel to decorate the cupcakes once finished. 

Leave your cupcakes to set and then enjoy! Hope you like them!

Katie xoxo

Return to blogging but with a baby in tow!

So..... It's been a while and my life has definitely changed! 

On Tuesday December 31st 2013 at 11.26am I gave birth to a gorgeous baby boy called Alfie. From that moment on I have never loved anyone or anything as much as I do for this little man. Don't get me wrong it has been the hardest thing I have ever done but I wouldn't it change for the world! 

I am due to go back to work in less than 5 days and I wanted to start documenting Alfie's life and my own via blogging again. I have also been inspired to blog all thing beauty, babies and beyond by Rebecca from www.percyandgrace.co.uk who does fantastic day in the life's on Youtube and blog posts that show very special moments of her gorgeous little family's life that will be memories captured forever as well as having informative and helpful blog posts along the way that help all mummies! Watching mummy videos on YouTube and reading endless blogs in the middle of the night whilst feeding Alfie has inspired me to write about my life - the good and the bad! I still love my makeup and beauty and there will be blog posts about them but I want to use my blog as a Dear Diary so in months and years to come I can look back and remember these memories.

So there's a quick summary of what's happened in the last year or so and what I hope to achieve via my blog. 

See you all soon

Katie and Alfie xoxo