Extremely posh but nevertheless low
Elegant yet simple rose cupcakes, decorated with sugar roses.
Ingredients
basic cupcakes (see p.18)
1 quantity
icing sugar (sifted)
200 g / 7 oz / 1 1/3 cups
boiling water
gel food colouring
sugar roses (candied)
12
Instructions
1
Step 1
Make the cupcakes as for the recipe on p.18, and allow them to cool.
2
Step 2
To make the icing, put the icing sugar in a bowl, and slowly add boiling water until you have a thick soup consistency. Add the food colouring and pour over cakes. Wait about 10 minutes before carefully placing (plonking) a rose on top of each cupcake.
