Chai and vanilla cupcakes

Chai and Vanilla Cupcakes

Have you ever tried Chai Spiced Latte? It's like the stuff they sell in coffee shops and it's sooooo nice! So naturally I decided to make cupcakes using it :D

I also decided to have a go at using my icing pipe -- mooma bought me a cupcake creations book yonks ago with a free one that I had yet to test out! I had a tiny bit of glitter left over too...


I used Mary Norwak's rich cake as the cupcake base and simply added a whole load of chai instead of cocoa powder. The vanilla buttercream was just the usual mix pipped on top of the cupcake. The recipe for this is:

Cake Mix

175g butter
150g castor sugar
225g plain flour
25g chai latte (add more if you love cinnamon...)
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs

Buttercream

100g butter
200g icing sugar
1 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla

• Turn the oven to 180°C/GM4
• Cream the butter & sugar until light & fluffy.
• Sift the flour & baking powder and add a little to the creamed mixture.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
  
• Fold in flour & chai.
• Divide into cupcake cases (makes about 24) about 3/4 full.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes.
• When cooled, ice and decorate!

Pretentious cupcake shot!