Shopping List

Want to go shopping and start baking your own cupcakes? Here’s a handy list of supplies that I have in the kitchen if you want to start baking and wonder what I have!

• Plain Flour
• Self-Raising Flour
• Baking Powder
• Bicarb Soda
• Caster Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Icing sugar
• Milk
• Unsalted butter
• Eggs
• Cream
• Vanilla Essence (If it’s too expensive, you can use Imitation Vanilla if you need to)
• Food colouring
• Various essences (almond, peppermint, rosewater, orange, strawberry, chocolate, coffee, rum, list goes on.. check your local supermarket)
• Cooking chocolate (white, milk, dark)

To make some of the specialty cupcakes and desserts you’ve seen on this blog:

• Maple Syrup
• Buttermilk
• Oreo biscuits
• Gelatine
• Jelly
• Lemons (or lemon juice)
• Yo-Yo Biscuits
• Rice Flour (for gluten free)
• Corn Flour (for gluten free)
• Lactose-free margarine (for dairy free cupcakes), Nuttelex is a good vegan margarine
• Frozen raspberries or strawberries

And don’t forget the decorating! Here’s some of what the supermarket has in stock:

• White Icing (this comes in a box and is also known as fondant, or RTR)
• Betty Crocker Icing Ready-To-Use (Vanilla and Chocolate)
• Icing in a can (It’s all the same flavour, but it comes in pink, blue and white)
• Decorating icing tubes (they come in lots of colours)