all right hello we're going to make some cupcakes today first thing we want to do
is set our oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit which is also the same as 180
degrees Celsius now let's prepare our dish below there are two choices when
you're making cupcakes you can use your muffin your muffin pan and you can
butter and flour them or you can just put these cupcake papers in so I'm doing
a special gift for my mom so I'm going to shoot combination of okay so let's go
make our batter we'll just put this aside grab our bowl we've got two bowls
we're going to be separating three eggs and then we also have half a teaspoon of
lemon extract half a tablespoon of vanilla extract 1/2 a teaspoon of salt
and half a teaspoon of baking powder we have half a cup of sugar and half a cup
of flour now these are not exact measurements and if you are in the
metric just simply grab a cup and fill it halfway full okay so we're going to
take our eggs and we're gonna separate them we're putting all of the white in
One Bowl careful not to put the yolk in there and all of you can another bowl
cause we're going to be fluffing them separately and we don't want the egg
white to be destroyed by the egg yolk because egg whites mess up really nicely
and you does not it's got fat in it
and that prevents it from fluffing up really well so there we go alright so we
have our egg whites and our egg yolks I'm going to add sugar to the egg yolks
and I'm going to add the lemon extract and the vanilla extract and I'm going to
just put this aside and let it sit for a moment then I'm also going to just grab
our flour and I'm going to add the baking powder and the salt to midday
today so my salt decided to clump that's fine okay so what we're going to do is
we're going to just mix that mixture together nicely if you just twist the
spoon around it'll mix it beautifully for you alright okay so what we're gonna
do is we're first going to whip our white so that we don't get any thank you
on our beaters because that would stop it from working out so nicely okay so
now you can test your egg white to see if it's fluffy enough by tilting it and
it shouldn't move and you can even turn it upside down and it won't fall out you
tilt it first though in case it does move so that it won't fall completely
onto the table let's put that aside now we're going to mix our egg sugar and
extracts together
all right I like to beat it a long time so it gets really nice and fluffy like
that so now we're going to pour our yolk mixture into our egg whites and I like
to use decided pull out one good every last bit of it that we can
Hey
all right okay so now what we're gonna do is fold it gently together you don't
want to mix it like crazy because I will get rid of all the beautiful fluffy air
bubbles that we've created I'm gonna just fold it gently now we're going to
add our flour mixture sprinkle it in and sprinkle about half of it in together
gently you just go underneath and pull up and as you pull up the egg will pick
up the flour and you'll mix it together great so now we're gonna put the rest of
our flour mixture in together nicely every time I fold it the air break
something like that it's a nice fluffy mixture okay so I'm just gonna grab some
spoons
okay cups now I just use 2 soup spoons what I'm gonna do is first up I'm simply
going to do is scoop up some of the mixture and scrape it off into the cup
you want to fill the cup about halfway full which is about one spoonful rest of
it
now we have our cupcakes ready to go in the oven all right we're gonna put our
cupcakes in the oven the rat to be the middle again and put the cupcakes in the
center that's the rat so that they cook evenly because they're small cakes I'm
actually only going to cook the first time for 10 minutes check it and then
just do intervals of 5 minutes after that so I'll set my timer for 10 minutes
all right 10 minutes is gone passes have a look in the see through the window I
can see that they're not quite ready as well just look there's still quite white
and fresh just another 5 more minutes see how our timer has gone so I thought
a wooden toothpick and we're going to just check and see if our cakes are
ready just going to show you something you take your wooden pick and you stick
it in and pull it out it's not quite ready then it has pieces of cake step to
the side let me show you
so that means we have to let it cook a little bit longer so I know let it cook
for another five I like to go five minutes at a time so we don't overcook
it so we're back the timer is going off again so let's see if they're ready they
look good I'll show you our wooden pick and we'll do ours and see what happens
that one came up beautifully clean I'm testing the largest cupcakes because the
smaller ones will also be done if the bigger ones are done they are perfect
there is nothing left on that stick if you can see that all right so then we're
gonna take our cupcake set and turn off our oven and I'm just gonna go grab a
towel to cover the cupcakes with all right so we have a towel and we're just
going to cover our cupcakes and let them cool down and this way no flies will get
on them and they won't dry out all right and then we'll decorate them in a little
while