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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

  • Whether thats with cooking, baking,

  • 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

  • I've done this recipe before on my blog

  • 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

  • so

  • Let's get our mixing bowl and our scales

  • I've got my butter here and

  • We need 75 grams of butter

  • That's 96 so I'll take some off

  • 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

  • There we go

  • 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

  • Pour that in

  • There we go, made a right old mess

  • 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

  • And it's always nicer

  • I think to use larger eggs in baking

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

  • egg dancing

  • 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

  • So you want 175 grams of plain flour

  • I always shake my whole body when I get flour out

  • I'm like

  • Okay

  • cocoa powder

  • Here

  • We want 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder

  • 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

  • hundred percent

  • one and a quarter

  • 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

  • And

  • 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

  • 125 milliliters of

  • milk

  • All right

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

  • And you want to pour it in a saucepan

  • And

  • 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

  • very gently

  • Add a little bit and I'm gonna

  • This is when the mixture starts to look so delicious

  • just gonna use my spatula

  • 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

  • two spoons

  • One for spooning

  • 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

  • 240 grams of unsalted butter

  • Let's see how much this is

  • 171 so we do need another

  • Oh 245

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

  • so basically until it goes from yellow to white

  • Cakes are out now you need to put these on a cooling tray

  • Until they are actually cool not like a little bit warm, or I don't have time

  • I'm going to fit the icing onto a warm, hot cake wait till they're cold, otherwise your cakes will look really bad

  • I do think the one thing you need to have patience for like a hundred percent

  • Mark, I'm talking to you now

  • These are on the cooling rack I'm gonna leave these

  • Just there to the side

  • Whilst I carry on with the butter icing I've been mixing this for around five minutes

  • I'm just gonna do once more just scraping all the butter off the edge

  • Just to make sure we've got every little bit, and it's as creamy as possible

  • Okay, I'm now going to measure out 400 grams of icing sugar into a bowl

  • There we go

  • it's essentially nearly the entire box and

  • You're just going to very gently cream the butter and add little bits of icing sugar as you go

  • hmm smells so good

  • Now you're going to want to add two teaspoons of vanilla I have some vanilla bean paste one

  • And two

  • Then you want to add four tablespoons of milk although

  • I would do this gradually so you can see whether the consistency of the icing is how you want it

  • So I'll maybe do two first

  • Mix that

  • this looks so great

  • Should I try a little bit

  • Hmm honestly, I think this is the best buttercream icing I've ever made

  • oh, one more tablespoon

  • Okay, I'm going in for my fourth tablespoon

  • Now what my cakes are completely cool

  • I've got the writing chocolate in a glass of boiling water, so that's nice and melted now

  • It's time to do my favorite bit. Which is to ice the cupcakes

  • Just going to cut the end of my piping bag off

  • And pop my nozzle in

  • And then fold your bag over

  • And start filling it

  • Right I am going to start from the outside and work my right in so that I can make like a point

  • I've decided to go with M&Ms because they are the brightest colors and for this because we're doing like some fairy lights

  • Needs to be bright so oh

  • That wasn't as smooth as I thought it was gonna be I thought it was just gonna go ahh

  • My writing chocolate has fully melted you could cut the end off

  • You want to start and kind of just go all the way around to the top

  • Don't know how easy this is gonna be with chocolate. Let's just give this a go

  • There we go perfect one done

  • Okay

  • I Quite like it when it goes a wiggly

  • It looks like proper fairy lights you know what I mean

  • Okay

  • Chocolate is done

  • I actually do think this is going to taste much nicer because we've used chocolate not

  • Writing icing so you want to get your M&Ms, and then you just want to stick them in

  • Very light

  • Okay, and there you go. These are my

  • Definitely don't look quite as good as the Pinterest version, but I'm really happy with them, and they are very delicious cupcakes

  • I will leave all the

  • Ingredients and the links and sources to everything down below if you guys want to recreate these in time for Christmas

  • Don't forget to share your photos or videos of your together moments using the hashtag Christmas together

  • I think that's gonna be such a lovely positive hashtag, and I can't wait to see what you guys post in it

  • I also can't wait to see if you decide to make these they'll probably look better than mine

  • but I'm excited to see them give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it, and I will see you again very soon I

  • Really want to eat one of these should I try I'm gonna try one guys

  • Gingerbread cupcake

  • I've got it all around my mouth?

  • Oh my

  • These are the best things I've ever made

Hollo everybody as you can see I am in the kitchen

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