Mama's Cosmopolitan Cupcake
National Cupcake Champion 2009 Kevin Sibley, founder of Mama's Cupcakes, created a highly tempting couture cupcake to celebrate the release of the movie Sex and the City 2."I'm constantly experimenting with new flavours and recipes so the chance to create a cupcake in honour of SJP and her friends was just too good to miss," says Kevin.
Kevin's Cosmopolitan combines fresh orange juice and cranberries with a generous splash of Cointreau, finished off with a crème fraiche/cream cheese topping and edible glitter.
Makes 12 cupcakes
- 150g butter softened
- 150g Caster Sugar
- 3 egg
- 150g self raising flour
- 1 tbsp fresh orange juice
- Grated rind of 1 orange
To decorate:
- 200g Cream Cheese
- 4 tbsp Crème fraiche
- 4 tbsp icing sugar
- 3 or 4 tbsp Cointreau and Cranberry mix
- Red food colour
- Edible glitter
Mix together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Whisk in the eggs one at a time. Fold in the flour. Then stir in the orange juice and orange rind. Fill the 12 cupcake cases and cook for 20 mins at Gas 4 (180 electric)
To decorate, whisk the cream cheese, crème fraiche and icing sugar until light and creamy. Mix in the cointreau and cranberry and a little red food colour to make it pink enough. Then pipe the mixture in swirls on the cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle with edible glitter and top with some orange rind.
>> visit Mamas Cupcakes Website
>> Read the interview with Kevin Sibley
Originally published on www.bakeryinfo.co.uk , May 2009
