Friday Night Treat

After school I was in the baking mood, so I flicked through some recipe books and decided on s’more chocolate cupcakes.

The sponge was just a regular chocolate mix, but it was the marshmallow icing that was the real challenge. Firstly I didn’t have enough egg whites so I have to down size the recipe for the icing. You had to bring to the boil 150g of sugar along with 113ml of water. When it had reached the ‘soft ball’ stage (when a drop of the syrup is put in a bowl of very cold water and forms a ball, but when taken out lays flat in your hand) you had to add it 3 egg whites that you had whisked up so it was ‘foamy’, you too had to whisk the syrup and egg whites until the bowl was luke warm, also the mixture should have doubled in size.    

This recipe was taken from ‘The Hummingbird bakery cake days’ recipe book.