Cupcakes ????

Muppet81

Hello
I want to try making basic cupcakes. I am trying to find a recipe which will do just 6 (or I will pig out on them all and be ill) and is very simple. All the recipes I find are for 12 or 24.
Could anyone help me please?
I have been considering one of the Lakeland cupcake makers and I know they have a recipe for 6 but I can't really afford a dedicated cupcake maker.
Also a very basic buttercream topping which can be swirled onto them, mainly to hide the fact that anyhting I make usually peaks on the top.. I keep finding complicated meringue type buttercream toppings and I will be out of my depth.
Cheers

fiscalfreckles

Can't you just halve the quantities for a recipe for 12?

Buttercream is easiest if you just do twice as much icing sugar as butter, say 4oz butter + 8oz icing sugar, add a drop of milk too and food colouring if desired. Or cocoa powder to make it chocolatey.

pinksleepybear

You could just freeze the extras ones and then have them available for emergencies....

Best part of cupcakes is licking the bowl afterwards though.

Apollonia

I just recently discovered this tip for making fairy cakes (aka cupcakes):

weigh your egg/s in the shell and then whatever the egg/s weigh is the same weight that you need of butter, sugar and flour.

This makes it much easier to do small amounts because if you use a medium or small egg that only weighs, e.g. 40g then you use less of everything else = less cakes! But this way the proportions are still correct and I found that 1 medium egg is enough for 6 or 7 cakes.

It is difficult to halve recipes that use 3 eggs but I've found the above method foolproof!

HTH

ladylouise62

Apollonia - thanks for sharing - I know the standard weights, but that's no good if you have differently sized eggs.

Muppet81

Thank you all. I will have a lovely afternoon tomorrow in baking land.

What a clever little website to enable you to produce the number you want. Must be useful for larger numbers.

By the way ...... the suggestion of making more and freezing ..... far too weak willed