Baby Bib & ABC Block Cupcakes: White Chocolate Strawberry

Baby Bib and ABC Block Cupcakes

An original recipe by Not Quite Nigella

White Chocolate and Strawberry Cupcakes

• 60g white chocolate chopped roughly

• 90g butter at room temperature

• 1 cup caster sugar

• 2 eggs

• 2/3 cup (100g) SR flour

• 2 tablespoons cornflour

• 1/4 cup hot water

• 100g strawberries chopped into small pieces

For decoration:

• 12 bibs (see below)

• 48 blocks (see below)

• 1 120g tube of pink writing icing fixed with a small star tip

Step 1 - Preheat oven to moderate 180degrees/160 fan forced.

Step 2 - Melt chocolate in bowl over small saucepan of simmering water

Step 3 - Beat butter, sugar and eggs in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy

Step 4 - Fold in flours, strawberries and melted chocolate and hot water. Spoon into cases.

Step 5 - Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer or toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool in tin.

For Bibs

You will need:

• Coloured fondant

• Round cutter and flower cutter (or cutters similar to produce a bib shape)

• Silver Cachous

• Candy Butterflies (bought unless you have a tiny cutter)

• a toothpick

Roll out fondant onto greaseproof paper and cut out bib shape by cutting out a small circle and then cutting off a section with another cutter (I just improvised using a petal cutter).

Using a toothpick, make light but firm holes along the edge to imitate stitching. Then using a tiny amount of water, adhere butterflies and silver cachous to bib.

For Alphabet Cubes

You will need:

• The cubes from Dolly mixture

• Edible pen

Draw letters on Dolly Mixture using edible ink pen. Easiest decoration ever plus you get to eat the rest of the Dolly Mixture

Alternative decoration, Milk bottles

For Milk Bottles

You will need:

• White fondant

• A small amount of coloured fondant (you can use the bits left over from your booties or bibs)

• a toothpick

Roll white fondant into a log shape with square ends. Roll a small ball of coloured fondant and attach to one end. Then with white fondant shape a little tip and add this to the coloured fondant. Make "measurement levels" with toothpick.

OR add a tip to a Milk Bottle lolly!