Gloverly Cupcakes

We were very much looking forward to bread week! We eat a lot of bread in our house, I bake bread anywhere between 2-6 times a week. Up until a few years ago I rarely made bread as Rich didn’t really eat gluten so had had very little bread making experience. But now Rich is eating it again and I am totally addicted to bread making. I had Chloe as my little helper this week, click here to see how we got on.

I was a little nervous about making a laminated dough as it really is a bit hit and miss as to whether it works. I have learnt that if the butter is too hard it will crack when you roll it up which then means the dough can get holes in and it doesn’t laminate as well. But equally if it’s too soft it will just squish out everywhere. So it’s quite hard to judge!

Chloe helped with all the weighing out and whisking the crème pat. She also loved feeling the soft dough. Paul’s recipe can be found here. When it came to spreading the filling and rolling the dough up, I found the filling quite squishy and it did ooze out a bit. I was worried that when they baked they would loose their shape a bit, I tried to carefully tuck the ends under slightly to stop them getting tails. I worked on most of them, but a few still came a bit unstuck. Looking at the photo on the bake off website, it looks a bit like they have been baked in crumpet rings so they keep their shape.

We couldn’t wait to tuck in! I was going to save them for breakfast in the morning, but we ate one each at tea time and will have them again for breakfast in the morning. They were absolutely amazing!