Fairy Tale Recipes: Baking Fairy Tale Cakes for Big Bad Trolls

Trolls, fairies and princesses was a great speciality of the illustrator Bauer, as you can see from the painting below:

I want to make a nice cup cake recipe, which can well with a fairy tale about trolls and fairies.

I am thinking about forrest strawberries as an element to the cup cake perhaps? These are obviously difficult to get hold off, but you can also just use normal strawberries.

2 cups white flour.

1 cup butter

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 3/4 cups sugar

4 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 1/4 cups milk

15 strawberries.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Into a medium bowl, sift together flours, baking powder, and salt; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and then beat in vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in three parts, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour; beat until combined after each addition. Fold in strawberries.

Line 12-cup cup cake pans with paper liners

Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cups so that each is about two-thirds full.

Bake until the cup cakes are golden brown for about 21 minutes.

Transfer them to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove the cup cakes from the pan and cool completely on wire racks.

Now its time to make something for the top of the cup cakes.

Ingredients:

3 egg whites

1 cups sugar

1 butter, room temperature,

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 strawberry jam

In a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water, combine egg whites and sugar. Cook, whisking constantly, until sugar has dissolved and mixture is warm to the touch.