Name: Gingerbread Christmas Light Cupcakes | Zoella | AD
Uploaded: 2018-12-22T13:24:40.000Z
Duration: 15 min 53 s
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Hollo everybody as you can see I am in the kitchen

I am getting festive, and I'm going to do some baking because everyone loves to bake around this time of year

I'm working with Waitrose in this video as part of their new Christmas campaign Christmas together

Which is essentially everyone coming together friends family strangers and making the most of the Christmas season

Or simply just having fun christmas is a time for everyone to be together and that is exactly

What Waitrose wants to get across which I think is lovely

so in this video i'm gonna be making some gingerbread fairy light cupcakes

But I'm mixing up the decoration a little bit because I saw a really cool picture on Pinterest

That I'm going to attempt to copy because it looks really cool and very magical very Christmassy

So let's get started first thing you want to do is pre-heat your oven to 175 degrees Celsius

get yourself a baking tin or a cupcake baking tin and

Fill it with your chosen cupcake cases. I've gone for gold because I think it's quite Christmassy

Perfect okay now you're all prepared. It's time to start mixing

Which is the messy job, but also the fun job, so I'm going to pop that to one side

If you're planning on doing any baking around Christmas season

Get organized get all your ingredients out make sure that all around you

So you're not like scrambling through cupboards trying to find things if it's all there out front of you

It makes it much more simpler and much more enjoyable right I've got my trusty KitchenAid first thing

I'm gonna do is cream together the butter and the sugar

There we go pop that to the side because you will need it for later. I'm now gonna pop the butter in the KitchenAid

Now we need to weigh out the sugar and we need 100 grams of caster sugar

Now you've done that you want to cream that together, so it's all nice and soft and smooth

Next thing you need to add to the butter and sugar is your treacle we need 125

Milliliters of treacle I can appreciate measuring up treacle is not the easiest

Don't lick treacle out of the thing it's not like golden syrup. It doesn't taste good

It tastes rank if you just eat it out of the bin trust me. I think I did that last time

Next thing you need to do is crack in one large egg and one large egg yolk

I am using the Waitrose free-range eggs all their eggs are free-range which is good

So the second egg you do only want the yolk so you need to do a little bit of

There we go happy with that, in it goes perfect now you want to give that a good mix

Doesn't look too appetizing right now, but trust me it will be lovely

Now in a separate Bowl you want to mix together all your dry ingredients, so I'm going to move the eggs away

I always shake my whole body when I get flour out

In it goes you then want to add 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Now it's time to add all your spices which make the cake tastes absolutely

Amazing this is what for me makes this feel like a very Christmassy recipe because it's very warming and spicy and just delicious

Basically so the first spice you want to add to your dry mixture is ginger

And you want to add one and a quarter teaspoon of ginger. I think ginger is my favorite spice

There we go the next spice you want to add is cinnamon and you want to add one teaspoon of cinnamon

It's like Christmas you could literally just smell that all day

There we go the next one that you want to add is mixed spice or allspice and you want to add half a teaspoon of that

Then lastly you want to grab some ground nutmeg

Which also whoa that smells so much stronger in this than it does when you bake with it. Whoa. again

You want to add half the teaspoon of that?

Now you're all spiced up spice up your life we're never done

I'm also going to add a quarter of a teaspoon of salt as well

And that is all your dry ingredients now in a bowl you then want to add it to your wet ingredients and

You just want to mix this until it's just combined you don't want to over beat it

I've got spices up my nose these are going to be delicious

Okay for this next bit you want to grab yourself a

Saucepan just a little one and pop it on a small hole and you want to use

Since this measuring jug is too big, so I don't know I've just made a guess

You just want to really carefully heat up the milk being careful not to boil it. That's the last thing you want

The milk is now hot, so I'm going to add that into the mixture

This is when the mixture starts to look so delicious

And make sure I've got everything of the edges

Now you have your absolutely delicious looking cake mixture, it's time to spoon it into your cupcake cases

One for pushing it into the cupcake cases

Now all you have to do is pop these in your oven for around

20 minutes or until they are springy to touch a little bit more golden on the outside and tidy up your kitchen

We don't have much longer on the cupcakes

but whilst they're still in the oven I'm gonna start on making the buttercream icing this is literally a simple buttercream icing recipe and

This is just a general one that I tend to follow so for this you will need

Perfect you want to beat this until it is really light in colour