Jubilee celebrations are going on in our house mainly in the form of cake baking with some Diamond Jubilee cupcakes. I love any excuse to bake a cake and that is probably going to take up a large part of this month. I am totally into all the souvenir paraphernalia and have started my collection. So far, the Jubilee Tate & Lyle golden syrup tin and the M&S Diamond Jubilee biscuit tin but I could and will go on purchasing all manner of goods I’m sure.
I did also spend last night putting together a Jubilee Pinboard on Pinterest . There are many hours to be lost on Pinterest and I certainly lost a lot of my evening to it looking for memorabilia. Sounds like a strange thing to do, but I do find I get lots of ideas and inspiration mainly because it is so colourful. And, I have created another Jubilee post (to come later) with an idea that I noticed has not yet been pinned!
Now, can you can imagine how lethal a trip to Lakeland can be at this time of the year? I went and came out armed with lots of goodies with which to make my Diamond Jubilee cupcakes. When it comes to cupcakes I follow my children’s preference for either ready to roll icing or glace icing. They are not keen on the half a pat of butter swirls but will gladly eat a pack of bright blue Renshaw’s straight from the packet!
These cupcakes were very good indeed. My 3 children particularly loved the edible stickers which tasted just like the sugared rice paper they had for the first time last year at Cranch’s Sweet shop in Salcombe. It was in the form of edible dollar bills!
I am entering these into Diamond Jubilee Forever Nigella which is being guest hosted this month by Nelly at Nelly’s Cupcakes. It is a monthly blogging event run by Sarah at Maison Cupcake.
Also, I have adapted Nigella’s cupcakes to include a banana and a splash of orange juice (RECIPE HERE). The banana will now be going into all my cupcakes. I can tell you that they were as fresh as a daisy even on Day 4 and the banana flavour was merely a hint.It lifted them into the realms of light and fluffiness that makes you feel as if they could not possibly be bad for you or contain any calories at all.
Diamond Jubilee Cupcakes
Ingredients :- Makes 12 cupcakes
The cupcakes are based on a Nigella recipe for Cupcakes which you can find HERE.
I have a adapted the recipe in these ways:-
1. Added a whole mashed banana to the cake batter after it has been beaten.
2. Added orange juice to replace the milk in the recipe.
3. Put all the ingredients into the KitchenAid and whisked them up together.
4. Used Stork margarine not butter.
5. Iced the cupcakes with Renshaw’s ready to roll coloured icing.
6. Decorated the cupcakes with edible Jubilee stickers I found at Lakeland.
I have another Jubilee idea to post up which I hope to enter into Homemade By Fleur’s Jubilee Themed Bake Club this month!
cute cupcakes – I was amazed to see jubilee paraphernalia at our british shop in Melbourne – I confined myself to a teatowel but was very tempted by more
I think I may be tempted by many things and am impressed that you have a British shop in Melbourne! Must be full of baked beans I guess and I have heard that Hellman’s mayo is popular too 🙂
These sound and look fabulous, and if you don’t mind I’ll copy your ideas. I have said I’ll bake for my daughter’s school Jubilee Picnic, so am thrilled to find such cakes to inspire me. Jude x
What a good idea having a school Jubilee picnic! I am afraid we won’t see much of the local celebrations as we will be in devon for the half term. Hope they have something we can join in with down there. May take along some Jubilee cupcakes anyway! xx
Oh these look wonderful! I’m a bit scared to start looking at all the Jubilee stuff in the shops because I think that once I start, I won’t be able to stop…
Well I would advise you not to venture onto the Jubilee Pinterest board then! I have seen so many goodies but in fact the ones I really like probably won’t cost too much. Teas, marmite,syrup, biscuits etc all great but reasonably priced. I am mad on packaging!!
I like your very-British cupcakes. The colour and designs are very bright, cheerful and patriotic 😀
This is my first time visiting your blog and “Like” you at Facebook 😀
Hi Zoe, thanks so much. I am pleased you like my patriotic and terribly British cupcakes! xx
these look gorgeous! I was going to make these for the Nigella challenge …. off I go to find another idea !!!
I would just do the same recipe! After all there are only a finite number of bakes that can be baked for Jubilee theme, plus the way you decorate them is bound to be different 🙂 xx
These cakes look absolutely stunning Laura. You have inspired me to get baking for the jubilee!
Thanks Charlotte, I am really getting into the Jubilee spirit now and keep buying things I want to use in my Jubilee inspired baking!
These are so cute!! Don’t worry, you don’t need an excuse to bake a cake. I just want to reach out and grab one!
Oh thanks, I am pleased you like them!!
FABULOUS Laura! I LOVE them and I am in the midst of a Jubilee Frenzy! I love all the cake cases and all of the bunting………I JUST love it all! I could steal of those cakes away from you……:-) Karen
Thanks Karen, I am loving all this Jubilee themed food at the moment :-0
Hi. Just popping over for the first time. I love the realises of your cupcakes. Those cuppies are perfectly baked, and I love the golden tint to the edges of the cupcakes. I’m looking forward to checking out the round up this month.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy some Jubilee baking too 🙂