What's the deal with Cream Cheese?!

I love white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake possibly more than I will my first born child - so what better for my first experimental cupcake?  How wrong could I have been?!

In my wisdom I decided I'd swap half the butter for cream cheese an at first it seemed to actually work perfectly.  So made up the rest of the mixture as normal. Melted a whole slab of white chocolate, burnt it but shoved it in anyway.  How do you burn chocolate?!  Then decided the best way to get raspberry in would just be these little flakes I found - but they seemed so tiny I chucked the whole bag in to make sure there was some in every cake.  Mistake number 3. 

All seemed well so in the oven they went, smelling gorgeous an seeming promising.  First one out though an the results needed obvious improvement. The cakes didn't rise properly due to the mixture being messed about.  The cream cheese taste was nowhere to be found an the choc was only there if you knew to look for it.  Uh-oh.  The raspberry however was so strong I may rethink that too.  

So keep tuned for my improvment on this,  Im thinking cream cheese frosting and choc drops.  Anyone wants to taste let me know!  

Sarah xx

So let me start this off...

Right,  I'm sure you all know I'm slightly addicted to baking.  It's not exactly a secret.  So welcome to my blog of ideas and creations that I want to use in my bakery when I get round to opening one.  All suggestions welcome and I always need people to test for me!

Firstly, normal fairy cakes.  A little offering if you will.  Use this recipe, enjoy and create your own mini masterpieces.

You need
4 ounce self raising flour
4 ounce caster sugar
4 ounce butter/marg
2 eggs

Method
Mix the sugar and butter up til it's all light an fluffyish and you can't see any of the sugar anymore.
Beat in one egg(don't worry if it looks horrible or curdles...keep mixing it fixes itself)
Add half the flour, have fun trying to keep it in the bowl. 
Beat in the other egg, and the rest of the flour.
Fill cake cases an bake for about 15 mins or until golden brown on top at 180C

ENJOY!

So there ya go,  the original little cakes that started it all.  Now to experiment and get some pictures up for you all to drool over. 

Sarah x