White Chocolate and Strawberry Cupcakes

Piping on the cupcakes

   I baked a simple Strawberry cupcake recipe and added some red food colouring to the cupcakes. Once they’d cooled on a wire rack, I made some white chocolate icing by melting 75g of white cooking chocolate and adding it to 110g of creamed icing sugar and 50g of margarine. The mixture was a little thick so I added3 drops of milk – I know from a previous experience that you only need drops or the icing will turn to a slop! I then spooned the mixture into a piping bag, fitted with a star nozzle before piping generous swirls on the top of the cupcakes. To decorate I placed silver balls on the icing.

The gourmet chocolate icing