Cupcake.

Well, recently I have been stuffing my face with those delicious Cheese and Onion Pasties made by the Greggs crew. (I advise you not to go to the Manchester Arndale top floor but the bottom floor - they're the nicer ones) However, when I stood on the scales a month later after eating two a day - and two doughnuts for dessert - I weighed 100kg, not advisable for me. Also, my cholesterol levels were definitely to the brim. I was eating LDLs faster than you could say "soft, waxy fat". I love the flavour of the cheese and the onions, so I thought of portraying it in a meal that is healthier than pastry - cupcakes! I remembered not to use blue food colouring because blue symbolises being full up and loss of apetite. They are delicious.

Take a look at how I made them.

80g self raising flour

90g butter

90g sugar

2 medium eggs

20g grated cheddar cheese

30g finely grated worcester cheese

1 onion (I prefer red onion, but you can use either)

1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring

MAKES TWELVE CUPCAKES

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Like any other cake, start by mixing the butter and sugar until they become one.
3. Then you can sift the flour - make sure you trap as much air as possible to aerate it. Also, nitrogen tastes quite nice. Well y'know, it is boring having too much cake.
4. This is the fun bit! Mix the worcester cheese with the egg (by hand or whisk, you choose) until it is all lovely yellow. Then mix this with the cake. Add the vanilla flavouring.
5. Dice the onion into tiny, tiny pieces and mix it into the mixture.
6. Pour the mixture into the cupcake trays.
7. Leave in oven for 15 minutes.
8. Quickly take them out and sprinkle cheddar cheese over them.
9. Finish baking in oven - should take 4 or 5 minutes.
10. Eat when it is cooler... unless you like cakes hot from the oven.

I hope you like this! You can try different types of cheese to maximise the taste.

You might think this meal is outrageously sickening and demented, but it tastes

rather fetching, I hope you must agree. First I felt sick when I thought of the

cheesey cakes in the oven with bits of onion, but I really like them now. I do not,

however, have a picture as I ate them before I thought of sharing this recipe.

What I like most about this dish is that it is both savoury and sweet - you can have

dinner and dessert in one cake! (Or maybe two, or three. Depends how hungry you

get.) And okay, cakes aren't that healthy too but it's easier to go to Gregg's than

make your own so recently I have made less.

Have fun and enjoy!

xx

Cakey