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Say the word ‘cupcake’ to anyone, and there’s a high probability that you’ll get a response along the lines of ‘where’, ‘can I have one’, ‘yes please’, ‘what flavour’, or simply a bewildered stare. Don’t worry about that last one.  As soon as you produce a cupcake, that bewildered look will turn into a ‘for me?’

The fun thing about cupcakes is that they’re small, perfect for one, and usually decorated beautifully. The other delicious part of cupcakes comes from the ability to experiment and make an endless variety of flavours.

Here at Kambrook, we’re taking the experimenting serious, and have partnered up with Higher Living, who make the most gorgeous range of herbal teas. Now, instead of just drinking the tea, we’ve added it to two of our cupcake creations, which we’re sharing with you today.

We have a tea pack from Higher Living to give away to five lucky readers. Higher Living Tea is one of a very few brands that still proudly produce and pack all of their products in Great Britain. Higher Living Teas are organic, 100% natural and most are naturally caffeine free so you can be sure that you are getting the very best from your cup.

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Citrus and Vitality ‘Tea’ Cakes with Cream Cheese Icing

• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cooking Time: 20 minutes
• Makes 24

INGREDIENTS

• 125g butter, softened
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 lemon, rind and juice
• 1 orange, rind and juice
• 1 ruby red grapefruit, rind and juice
• 3 x 59g free range eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour

SYRUP

• ½ cup boiling water
• ½ cup caster sugar
• 2 x Higher Living ‘Vitality’ teabags 

ICING

• 125g cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup icing sugar mixture, sifted
• 1 tsp lemon juice

DIRECTIONS 

1. Preheat a fan forced oven to 170C and line 2 x 12 holed muffin trays with patty pans.
2. Using an electric mixer with the beater attached, cream the butter and sugar until whipped and lightened in colour, approximately 4 minutes. Add the rind of the lemon, orange and grapefruit and mix for a further 30 seconds.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Remove the bowl from the mixer and gently fold through the flour and the juice from the lemon, orange and grapefruit. There should be approximately 350ml of liquid from the citrus.
4. Place a heaped tablespoon of mixture into each patty pan and then place them into the oven to bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer can be removed cleanly.
5. While the cupcakes are still hot, stab 6 holes in the top of each using a skewer. Combine the ingredients for the syrup in a jug and pour a teaspoon over each cupcake and allow to stand until cooled.
6. To make the icing, place the icing ingredients into the mixer bowl with the beaters attached and whip until combined and fluffy, approximately 3 minutes. Drop a teaspoon sized dollop onto each cupcake and serve immediately.

Hazelnut and Cinnamon ‘Tea’ Cakes

• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cooking Time: 20 minutes
• Makes 12

INGREDIENTS

• 2 x Higher Living Cinnamon teabags (carefully cut the top of each tea bag and tip out the tea leaf contents into a small bowl) 
• ½ cup milk
• 130g butter, softened
• ½ cup caster sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 2 x 59g free range eggs
• 125g hazelnut meal
• 1 cup self raising flour
• ½ cup chocolate hazelnut spread

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat a fan forced oven to 170C and spray and 12 well muffin tin with canola oil spray.
2. In a jug, place the loose tea leaf contents from the tea bags and the milk, and then stir to combine. Place into the microwave for 60 seconds and allow to stand for  5 minutes.
3. Using an electric mixer with the beaters attached, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla until lightened in colour and thickened.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Fold through the hazelnut meal , flour and milk on a low speed and evenly distribute the mixture to the muffin tray wells.
5. Place into the oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown and serve with a dollop of chocolate hazelnut spread.

** This Competition has now finished, thank you to all who participated! **  

NOW FOR THE WINNING PART

The lovely people at Higher Living are giving five (5) lucky readers the chance to win one of their Higher Living tea packs (consisting of each tea show above). All you have to do is answer in twenty-five words or less this simple question in the comments section of this blog post: What is your favourite flavoured cupcake?

Five (5) lucky winners will be selected and will win their very own Higher Living tea pack, RRP $18.45.

Please note:

• Only one entry per person
• Open to Australian residents only
• Five (5) winners will be selected by Kambrook
• The winners will be contacted by email and Kambrook reserves the right to announce the winners on our online site https://aperfectpantry.com.au

This competition will run from 9am 12th August 2013 to 12pm 18th August 2013.

Click here for full Terms & Conditions.

IF YOUR ENTRY EXCEEDS 25 WORDS YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM WINNING!