Cherry and Cocunut Cakes!!!

Today, I thought I would show you how to make these really tasty cherry and coconut cakes... 





For the cakes:
  • 8oz unsalted butter (softened)
  • 8oz caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 9oz flour
  • 1 heaped tsp of baking powder
  • 10 glace cherries
  • 25g desiccated coconut
For the decoration:
  • 240g unsalted butter (softened)
  • 400g icing sugar (sifted)
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • Sprinkles
1. Preheat the oven to 160°. Put butter, caster sugar and eggs into a mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to blend them together.
2. Gradually add the flour and baking powder until it is all mixed in thoroughly.

3. Chop up the glace cherries into quarters and put that into the mix along with the coconut. Blend a bit more.
4. Put cupcake cases into each section in a cupcake tin and fill each case equally. Bake for half an hour.
5. To make the buttercream icing, I used a recipe from one of Zoella's videos which I will leave a link at the end of this post. I've only recently started using this recipe but it's SOOO delicious!😋

6. Before you ice the cakes, wait until they are COMPLETELY cool. Put the nozzle into the bottom and spoon the icing into the piping bag. I used a No. 118 Kitchen Craft Petal Nozzle (link at the end of post) and a plastic, disposable piping bag. To create the flour-kind of pattern, squeeze the icing out moving your hand back and forth, around in a circle.

7. Add some sprinkles to the top and you're done!

If you have found this post useful or have ended up making these cakes, let me know how it went. Also, don't forget to click that 'Follow' button for updates to your email when I upload a new post!
Buttercream Icing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EacCdANAfyQ
Piping Nozzle: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/263052968415?chn=ps&adgroupid=49511180526&rlsatarget=pla399467214414&abcId=1130086&adtype=pla&merchantid=11
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Stay tuned for more,
Elly😆

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