You probably hadn’t thought of using yerba mate for cooking but its surprisingly tasty..this simple recipe for 12 cupcakes is quick and easy, and brings a subtly different flavour to your baking.
Set oven to 180C
Ingredients for the cakes Ingredients for the icing
200g sugar 100g butter
150g self raising flour 200g icing sugar
75ml evaporated milk 1 x Tablespoon instant yerba mate
Pinch of salt Green colouring (optional)
1 x teaspoon vanilla essence Items to decorate e.g. flowers/stars/hundreds & thousands etc
2 x teaspoon baking powder
1 x tablespoon wine vinegar
1 x egg
2 x tablespoons instant yerba mate (if you don’t have it you could make an extremely strong infusion and use that instead, in which case reduce the amount of evaporated milk)
- Sift and mix together the dry ingredients – set aside
- Whisk all the ‘wet’ ingredients together
- Bit-by-bit add in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients mixing in well
- The resulting mixture should be gloopy
- Fill the fairy cake cases about ¾ full and bake for 25-30 mins
- To make the topping – whip all topping ingredients (apart from the decorative items) together and use to decorate the cakes when they have cooled down
