Cupcake Beanie Knitting Pattern

Cupcake beanie



This hat is worked flat using dk baby wool. You can embellish and change this pattern easily. Changing the rib pattern to k2, p2 is also nice, as is knitting in beads as "sprinkles" in the icing section.

You will need
3.25mm needles
4.5mm needles
3 colours of yarn (sample uses brown, pink and red)
Small amount of stuffing

Using the 3.25mm needles, cast on 60 stitches in colour A. The sample uses a plain brown as colour A. Knit one, purl one to the end of the row. Complete 10 rows. This will create the ribbed bottom of the hat.

Change to the 4.5mm needles. Using colour B knit a row on the new needles. This makes the icing. The following rows (in pink in the sample) are all numbered from after the ribbed piece.

1: k1 front, yarn around needle, k1 back in every stitch on this row.

2: slip 1, p2 together, psso over the whole row (this creates the muffin top area

3: knit

4: purl

5-16: repeat rows 3-4

Row 17: Continuing with colour B, knit 3 stitches, knit 2 together. Repeat until the end of the row.

Row 18: Purl the row.

Row 19: Knit 2 stitches, knit 2 together. Repeat until the end of the row.

Row 20: Purl the row.

Row 21: Knit 1 stitch, knit 2 together. Repeat until the end of the row.

Row 22: Purl the row.

Row 23: Knit 2 together. Repeat until the end of the row.

Row 24: Purl the row.

Row 25: Knit 2 together. Repeat until the end of the row.

26: purl 2 together over the whole row

Change to red
On the remaining stitches k1 front and back over whole row
Stst 7 rows
K2 tog over row.

Cut the yarn with 30cm remaining. Slip all the stitches onto the yarn, and pull tight.
With a little stuffing, the size of a small walnut, stitch up the sides of the red cherry, and stuff. Wind the yarn around the base of the cherry, tightly shaping into a sphere.

Stitch up the side of the hat in matching yarn.


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Vanilla Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Cheese Icing

A whole ago I bought the Sunbeam Pattie cupcake maker, and I figured it would be a cute and easy way to bake with my niece. WRONG! It turns out that is is awesome for making just enough cupcakes for morning tea, so that they are always fresh!

Except generally cupcake recipes are for more cupcakes. Pattie makes 6 at a time so easily, so I've been working on recipes to make just a half dozen cupcakes at a time.

These are soft, fluffy and gorgeous.



Vanilla Cupcakes
1 egg
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup caster sugar
1/6 cup milk
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Beat the egg in a jug. This makes it easier to fill the cupcakes....

Add softened butter and sugar and beat. The mix should be light and soft.

Add milk, flour, baking powder and vanilla. Combine with a spatula.

Heat Pattie, placing the cupcake liners in the spaces. You can bake these at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes, but Pattie is only about 8 minutes.

Pour the mixture into cupcake liners, leaving about a cm at the top of the liner. The cupcake should rise to the top of the liner.

Bake for about 8 minutes in Pattie, or 15 in a conventional oven.

When cool, ice.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Icing

Tablespoon of butter
2 mini tubs of cream cheese
Strawberry essence
1/2 cup icing sugar

Heat the butter and cream cheese in the microwave for about 20 seconds. Stir briskly, mixing into a paste.

Add a few drops of strawberry essence. Stir.

Add the icing sugar, stir until combined.

Load into a piping bag and pipe onto the cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles if desired.


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