Hey folks.
Today we are showing you how to make these amazing millionaire shortbread cupcakes.
Yes hey folks this is a recipe we have uploaded to a cool new community called we bake.
Yes this a community that rewards you for baking.
Rewarded for baking rewards like star and stuff yes amazing.
Like you get rewarded for making cake and eating it.
The first baking social media platform that celebrates baking but also coaches and motivates
bakers to do more of what they love.
And thats for bakers of any level right Mrs Barry.
Yes I mean some people we are urm better at baking than others we do not get competitive
do we.
No.
Mrs Barry is better than me you guys know that I know I am trying.
Create your own profile and follow other bakers and it offers useful advice and fun inspiration
as well as great challenges and rewards.
Imagine a mix between Facebook and Instagram but with just 100 percent baking content.
So some of you baking fans out there are going to love it.
Sounds like the perfect social media.
The home of cake yes.
The first community challenge we are taking part in is the cupcake champion challenge.
If feel like a should say cage match on the end and wear a wrestling outfit of something.
But these beauties are in there and if you do not get involved we are going to win which
is awesome but erh yeah it is just a basic little cupcake really.
It is its super easy but we have added some daring decorations.
Makes it look better than it actually is but honestly it is amazing you are going to love
these.
So first up grab yourself a large mixing bowl and this is going to be your mothership for
the make of these cupcakes.
Where it all happens yes.
Your going to add in your room temperature butter followed by your sugar and cream it
together until light and fluffy.
Oh use an electric whisk for that it does help and then the next step is to chuck in
three eggs.
Chuck we are not going to chuck in three eggs.
Well just place them in straight from a chickens bum optional um just get them from the store.
Add the eggs in there again whisking it.
Was that funny I just told a joke the kids laughed.
Come here that was funny yes I will pay for in a minute.
So get all those eggs in there give it a darn good beat together and be sure to erh scrape
down the sides.
Yes you do not want to leave any sides behind must get out of the bowl.
You do not want any eggless mixture you want it all nice and eggy.
Sift in your flour followed by it is worth saying that while you were sifting I can quite
an excited face sorry about that.
Ive not been that excited about sifting before.
Followed by a teaspoon of baking powder.
So you want to get that all in there make it all folded get it all incoperated together
make sure there is no flour or baking powder left in or any residue all together until
it is nice and smooth again.
Next up we added in our chocolate chips.
Now these are chocolate chips mixed with a little bit of flour and we didnt know that.
No which is the benefit of community right because mixing them with flour apparently
stops the chocolate chips sinking to the bottom of your cupcakes.
Now one of you guys told us that so thank you very much that�s really great to get
some advice and tips from other bakers thank you.
The power of community.
With the batter to one side you are going to mix together your coca powder with some
boiling water to form like kind of like paste thing.
Which although is cocoa powder you get addiced and think oh I am excited about that Mrs Barry
did go down that route I dont think I caught that on camera.
I did try a bit.
Everyone likes to lick the bowl right and I thought this is going to be tasey it is
chocolate forgot it is dark cocoa powder that you are just meant to add into cakes to make
the cakes taste nice.
It was very yeah I wouldnt recommend it.
Yeah it did go into are batter and it did look good it was all marbley once it went
through first looking absolutely gorgeous you want to swim in there.
Get it a nice consistent colour again but dont eat it no.
Get some cup cupcake cases as modelled by these lovely two on screen now.
Yea I dont know who they are but I dont think cup cases modelling is not there forte I think
I would be more of a hand model if anything.
Get that batter evenly divided into those cupcake cases and then slide away and into
the oven and bake them for how long Mrs B about 12 to 15 minutes.
Ok until springy to touch and then all you are going to do is leave them to cool down
fully on a wire rack.
Meanwhile we can make are awesome buttercream.
For the buttercream tip some room temperature butter into a bowl and beat it together with
a wooden spoon.
Yeah that way is kind of cleans and grasps.
Another tip that you guys have given us as well because we were getting like a cloud
a shower puff of icing sugar shower.
But by doing that and by doing it by hand as well it helps control it a little bit more
so gradually add all the icing sugar in there with the butter until it has merged.
Add in the milk followed by the vanilla extract.
Oh yes mix that through together get that flavour fully merged in there.
You could actually use caramel extract as well but that might take it a little over
board today.
It is all about cooking with confidence and experimentation right.
Yeah I have definite found that since I have started this journey with you urm the more
I have decorated cakes and the more I have made them the more confident I have become.
Yeah plus if it doesnt work out you try again and you get cake and also if it doesn�t
work out for you she gets me to do it.
You will get better with practice but hey practising means more cake.
When it comes to coring the cupcakes we are not doing that today.
That is right we are using some Dr Oetker easy cake fillers so we can push it straight
into the sponge itself and pump it full of flavour.
This one being salted caramel flavour which compliments the millionaire shortbread theme
amazingly.
Sprinkle on top some bashed up biscuits.
Oh yeah let it rain raining with bread crumbs baby well not breadcrumbs that is Mary Poppins.
Biscuit crumbs yes.
With that buttercream pushed into your piping bag swirl on your buttercream and then shove
in a millionaires shortbread why not.
Looking good.
A little final rain of biscuit crumbs on top.
Delicious.
All done.
So there you have it.
We have just posted this recipe on our we bake profile so you can make this at home
so go over there check it out over now.
Become a we bake member and do not forget to enter the cupcake champion challenge because
if you dont we are going to win it and the prize is actually pretty cool.
It is a trip to London and a visit to some baking hotspots.
So give it a go and do try out this recipe and as always do send us a picture.
Thats it then folks we will see you next time can I eat this now.
Oh now my millionaire short bread has fallen out I get to eat that in fact I am going to
eat it all.
Leave some for me.
See ya bye.