Try it yourself

THIS week, Arlene Thompson - a member of Sainsbury's Try Team - shows you how to make some delicious light sponge cupcakes, topped with a real fruit icing.
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Jul 2010, 10:29 BST
Updated 27th Jul 2010, 14:30 BST

Try making these easy cupcakes with your children over the summer holidays. They will love getting involved.

Very berry cupcakes

Ingredients:

Eight tablespoons golden caster sugar

225g softened butter

Eight heaped tablespoons self-raising flour

Two large eggs

Zest of one lemon and one orange

200g soft cheese

Two tablespoons icing sugar

A handful of raspberries or blackberries plus a few for decoration

Preheat the oven to 180C, fan 160C, gas 4.

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Mix together the caster sugar, butter, flour, eggs, lemon and orange zest in a food processor until light and fluffy (you can do this by hand if you do not have a food processor).

Spoon the mixture evenly into 12 cupcake cases placed in a cupcake tin. Bake for 15 minutes, then leave to cool on a wire rack. Meanwhile, mix the soft cheese, icing sugar and berries together in a food processor until smooth.

When the cupcakes are cool, place a small teaspoonful of icing on top of each one and finish off with a whole raspberry or blackberry.