Food In Fiction - Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe

Ingredients

• 2 tsp double-acting baking powder 
• 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a little hot water
• 100 g butter soft
• 2 tbsp warm golden syrup 
• 2 tsp nutella 
• 225 g self-raising flour 
• 100 g caster sugar 

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• baking pan

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 200c/gas mark 6.
2. Sift the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Rub in the butter, add the sugar, bicarb, syrup and nutella.
3. Roll into walnut-sized balls and place on a greased baking tray, pressing down the centre of each ball with your thumb.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes. Keep an eye on them, as you can see mine are a little brown at the edges.notes: Issy (the main character in the book) says that while these are baking you should eat 4 tsp of nutella, then eat the entire tray of cookies while reading a gossip magazine and wearing pyjamas.