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Thursday, 29 October 2015

'BLOODY' GOOD TOFFEE CREAM PUMPKIN CUPCAKES

Happy Halloween readers! I baked some delicious pumpkin cakes today and I thought I'd upload a post about them. Every year I buy a pumpkin and display it proudly in my home but I never get round to doing anything with the slimy contents I've just broke several nails scraping out of it! Not this year, I made these yummy 'Bloody' Toffee cream Pumpkin Cupcakes! Perfect Halloween treats!



 Here's what I did!

You will need:
Pumpkin flesh- minus the seeds!
3 tablespoonfuls of rapeseed oil
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
3 large eggs
3 teaspoons of mixed spices
300g of light brown sugar
225g of self raising flour
Toffee cream
Red food dye
Cupcake cases



How to make them:

First of all you will need to open up your pumpkin and de-seed the pumpkin flesh. It then needs to go in a microwaveable bowl with one tablespoon of water, cover with pierced piece of cling film. Then pop in the microwave for 8 minutes. Once it has steamed nicely, carefully take off the cling film and use a knife to cut through the pumpkin to ensure it's nice and soft  and leave to one side to cool.


Next mix the sugar, eggs, bicarbonate of soda and mixed spices together in a large bowl. Sieve and add the flour and stir until nice and golden in colour. Pour the softened pumpkin through a sieve to get rid of excess water and then gradually add the pumpkin to the mixture and stir well.



Once it's all nicely mixed, put two spoonfuls of mixture into each cake case and place in the oven at 180 degrees for 18 minutes until they are a light golden colour.





Once cooled I used some toffee cream and smoothed this over the top of the cakes and then put drops of red food dye on the top to look like blood for Halloween!


 



These cakes were really yummy and a great way to use the pumpkin too! Plus whilst the cakes were cooking I carved my pumpkins face!

If you have any other great recipes let me know or even better if you make these cakes let me know too! Twitter and Instagram links on the blog!



Have a happy, safe Halloween everyone!

Steph x




Here's the original recipe 



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