Tea time at a Karoo guest farm isn’t tea time without some cake or tart on offer with your afternoon coffee or tea. One of Anne Bowker’s most popular teatime dishes when they ran a guest farmi was Cupcakes, decorated with slices of green fig preserve as leaves with tiny fresh briar roses.
Cupcakes
125 g Butter
155 g Caster sugar
2 Eggs
115g Flour
1 1/2 t Baking powder
150 ml Milk
- Preheat oven to 180 and line muffin tins with paper cases
- Beat together butter and sugar with an electric beater until pale and creamy
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition
- Stir in flour and milk and spoon into cases
- Bake for 15 minutes until skewer comes out clean
- Take out of muffin pan and cool on a rack
- Ice when cool with vanilla flavoured butter icing and decorate
Anne makes double quantities every time as they are delicious and get snapped up in no time at all.
