Almond cupcakes with grapes

Name: Almond cupcakes with grapes
Ingredients: 10 dried or fresh apple stalks (optional); 10 dried or fresh apple stalks (optional); a little sieved (strained) apricot jam; 225 g/8 oz marzipan; 75 g/3 oz/6 tbsp butter, softened; 100 g/3½ oz/scant ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 3 eggs, lightly beaten; 15 ml/1 tbsp grappa; 100 g/3½ oz/scant ½ cup ground almonds; 150 g/5 oz/1¼ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 10 ml/2 tsp baking powder; 10 ml/2 tsp Seville orange marmalade, sieved (strained); 500 g/1¼ lb white marzipan; green and purple food colouring; green and purple food colouring; 50 g/2 oz royal icing

Preparation info

Makes
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Bunches of marzipan grapes decorate these spectacular tea party cakes, but if you would prefer a simpler decoration you could finish the cakes elegantly with just a single green vine leaf laid on top.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz marzipan
75 g/3

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Line the cups of a bun tin (pan) with paper cases. Beat the marzipan, butter and sugar together until smooth with an electric mixer. With the whisk running, add the eggs in a very thin stream, beating well until the mixture