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1. When your food processor lid doesn’t like to come off once you’ve put it on, that’s annoying (I realise that that is not strictly about cupcakes, but it’s related, promise)

2. It’s good to have various sizes of paper cases floating about, so that you can always use the same ones, and keep wondering why you bought the others

3. Adding vanilla scented caster sugar and vanilla essence is really not overdoing it

4. Even though the lid is sticking and being generally very annoying for a very new appliance, you will be glad you used your food processor, and didn’t mix the cakes by hand. Especially when you’re meant to be studying, not baking.

5. My oven takes 20 minutes to bake cupcakes, not 15

6. Cupcakes are best eaten in their naked, un-iced state 12.5 minutes after they’ve come out of the oven. They’re a little crispy around the outside and warm and soft on the inside

7. 125g of unsalted butter is not enough to make icing for 11 cupcakes

8. It’s always worth getting out the Dr. Oetker icing bag. You have to justify that purchase somehow

9. Sprinkles are generally a nice touch

10. Lemon icing is good because it counteracts the sweetness of the cake. Plus, if you use real butter in the icing, it’s already a nice yellow colour which you don’t have to faff with