As I have moved home recently I had a house warming party this weekend which, of course, called for lots of cupcakes!
I made three batches of 12 cupcakes; one chocolate batch, one vanilla batch with a big chunk of dark chocolate in each cake (a lot like my white chocolate cakes), and finally a batch of vanilla cakes with chocolate sprinkles added to the mix.
Now, it may seem strange to put the sprinkles actually into the mix but I think it gives a great taste and effect - you get lots of specks of chocolate in the vanilla sponge, yum! You can also try this with brightly coloured sugar sprinkles which will give you lots of rainbow specks in the cake - wow!
I iced the cakes with buttercream (equal parts butter and icing sugar) and piped it out using a zip lock bag with a snipped corner.
I had decided on a chocolate and blue theme for the cakes so you will notice they were all made in blue cases. I also used one of my favourite sprinkles on some of the cakes - a blue sugar from Martha Stewart which I bought in Macy's when I visited in New York last July.
On the remaining cakes I used lots of different chocolate sprinkles on the top; stars, hundreds and thousands in both milk and dark chocolate, choc chips and chocolate covered toffee balls.
And they were all absolutely delicious! :D
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