New Sunday habit

In what looks like becoming a new habit each Sunday, yesterday afternoon I decided to try making cupcakes. Everyone says they are easy, so it should be more difficult for me to stuff them up compared to the previous challenges involved in Sonia's birthday cake.

Here is a picture of the results. The recipe said it would make 24 - in actual fact it made 20 (for those of you who are observant, the missing ones have been eaten). The chocolate ones are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate chunks, raisins, rum flavouring, and chocolate butter cream icing. The other ones are plain with lemon butter cream icing.


The next photos are the story of making Sonia's birthday cake. The first one is of the cake after taking out of the oven, and trying to get it out of the tin.



And you need to see what the turntable from the oven/microwave looked like after taking the cake off it. The detritus that you see is part of what spilled over the side of the cake tin. Remember that this is what is left after I

1. scraped it off with a spoon so that it would not spill over the side of the turntable onto the floor of the microwave, and
2. scooped some of the cake mixture out of the cake tin (while it was cooking) using a jug that I use for making milk for coffee...
   

And of course you need to understand what sort of oven we are cooking with...



Below is a picture of the cake at the end of the process. It actually looked ok (IMHO), and tasted fine.