Lemony cupcakes from last week. I'm doing my first Saturday stall this week which I am equally excited and scared about. I'm in a different spot on the market not with my usual little gang. I'm going to be next a sausage stall which could be a mixed blessing. In one way at least I'll get hungry people passing by, but it will smell of sausages oh dear. But cupcakes make a good pudding after a big German sausage or at least that's what I'll tell people :))

I'm doing lots of big cakes on the stall now and this is one of them! I'm also working on autumn recipes for cupcakes and tried apple today but they didn't quite work out and sunk in the middle. I tried adding a spoonful of homemade apple butter in some of the cases and then stirring it in to the sponge mixture but it didn't work very well in either case. Perhaps it was my apple butter which was sort of a made up recipe from all the hundreds on the web. Some say do add butter, some say don't, some say use cider so in the end I used a very old recipe by Marguerite Patten but halved the sugar. All very complicated and I'm sure I'm over complicating it..