Hummingbird Bakery Marshmallow Cupcakes

This is the first recipe I've tried from the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. I made them for H's birthday at the weekend...appropriate since she bought me the book for christmas...maybe a subtle hint...

Hummingbird cupcakes are amazing and if ever you get the opportunity to visit one of the shops do...the Black Bottom Cupcakes are positively orgasmic...

I'd heard mixed reviews about the actual recipe book though, so was presently surprised at how straight forward and easy it is to use. You can link to the marshmallow cupcake recipe here if you'd like to try making them.

Once you've weighed out all your ingredients you just mix all the dry ones and the softened butter together in a freestanding mixer with a paddle attachment. Or like me with a handheld one, until they resemble bread crumbs.

Then mix in the wet ingredients and three quarter fill the cases with the batter, bake...and then leave to cool...

Then the fun begins!

You scoop little hollows of cake out of each one and fill with melted marshmallows...this bit was not as easy as it looks as you can see from my attempt...because the melted marshmallow gets all stringy like mozarella cheese on a pizza as it cools down...













...but the doesn't matter because that all gets covered over with the scrumptuos marshmallow frosting...

There's going to be no stopping my cupcake baking from this point on...the lavender cupcakes look beautiful, so do the the green tea ones...and there are cookies and muffins and pies and cheesecakes...not to mention special cakes like the Brooklyn Blackout Cake... I've got to make a graduation cake for next week...so maybe I'll try that one...

The marshmallow birthday cupcakes had been planned for a birthday picnic in Richmond park that sadly got rained off. H suggested Esfahan Persian restaurant in Putney and then a walk by the river.

The foods was very good. We've eaten at a number of Persian resteraunts in London and foodwise this would rate amongst the top ones. I even tried an intriguing drink called Sekanjebin with delicious sweet sour taste...

...an amazing day...