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Strawberry & Rose Teacup Cakes
Celebration
Topic 7
What food do you think about when it is time to celebrate?? Is it just me, or does champagne come to mind first. After all, what is a celebration without a bottle or two of bubbly?
Needless to say I have been struggling to associate a particular food with a celebration, upon asking around most people seem to think of cake when there is a celebration. My next thought was the celebrations themselves, in our house it is mainly birthdays we celebrate, and sure enough, it is all about the cake.
It will be my gorgeous little girl’s fourth birthday at the beginning of May and she is already planning her party. She plans to invite friends for a Princess and Pirates Tea Party. We have been doing the rounds together visiting op shops looking for gorgeous tea cups. I plan to use an image from this photographic shoot to make the tea party invitations for her party.
Ingredients:
90gm butter
½ t/s vanilla
½ cup caster sugar
1 cup SR flour
2 T/s milk
2 eggs
6-8 t/s strawberry jam
Icing:
125gm butter softened
1 ½ cups icing sugar
1 ½ Tbs rose water
Decorations as desired
Method:
Preheat oven to 160 degrees and add muffin papers to tin.
Beat butter, flour, sugar, vanilla and milk in a small electric mixer bowl until it resembles bread crumbs. Add the eggs and beat until pale on a medium to high speed.
Put a spoonful of the mixture in each of the patty papers ensuring the base of the papers are covered.
Add ½ a teaspoon of jam to each of the cupcakes.
Continue to top the cupcakes with the remainder of the mixture.
Bake for 20minutes or until golden and cooked.
To make the butter cream beat the butter until pale.
Add the icing sugar and rose water.
Pipe the cakes with butter cream mixture and top with any decorations.
Please have a look at how my fellow challengers have interpreted the theme of "Celebration"!
What would be your favourite celebration food?
Banana & Caramel Cupcake
I can’t believe it has been so long since I updated! The time is just flying and I don’t seem to be able to catch up at the moment. Some readers may know I have three kids at home at the moment, plus a Chinese student from Hong Kong staying with us until June, (her name is Kristy). One of my little ones has just started Kindy, and I can’t seem to get a good routine going at the moment. Also more dear hubby had a surfing accident and ruptured his A/c joint. He has just had surgery to reconstruct the shoulder and is a little worse for wear at the moment.
I have so many wonderful stories to share from our recent trip to Fiji, but for today I will have to leave you wanting, and instead offer you a peace offering, my delicious Banana & Caramel Cupcake with Ginger frosting.
I hope you enjoy them, the caramel in the centre makes a nice surprise when you bite in...
Ingredients:
2 cups SR flour
1 t/s cinnamon
125gm melted butter
¾ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed banana
Filling:
Nestles Caramel Top
Icing:
1 ½ cups Icing sugar
Vanilla Essence
125 gm Butter (softened)
1 t/s ground ginger
Method:
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees, and line a muffin tin with papers.
In a bowl add all the dry ingredients. In a plastic jug combine all the liquid ingredients.
Pour the liquid into the dry products and stir until combined.
Cook until a skewer comes out clean. Cool.
Remove a semi circle of cake from the top of the muffins to allow room for the caramel filling. Fill the centre of the muffin with Caramel.
For the icing beat the four ingredients until light and fluffy. Pipe onto the cakes and then refrigerate.
I had a little fun with the presentation of these cakes. Little Miss A kindly allowed me the use of her tea sets and dolls house furniture to photograph the cakes. There was a proviso that she could eat the cake I was photographing when I was done. As you can see we struck a deal.
The Sweetest Things
The Sweetest Thing…
…is watching a child’s eyes widen and light up when they walk into “The Sweetest Things” cake shop. There were too many delicious choices, and I had instantly excited children.
We had been going for a stroll around the Terrigal shops when we happened upon this apparition of sugar. It was immediately obvious that a quick look in the window was not going to satisfy either the children or myself. Hubby had given instructions that the children were allowed one item only… I kinda guessed the same went for me.
There were so many different cute items to choose from. The little ones were toing and froing between choices. There was giggling and jumping with excitement.
Little A finally chose a pink cupcake because that is her favourite colour. The flavour combination of her cupcake was Turkish delight and musk, it was absolutely delicious and finished in no time.
Mr L couldn’t go past the cookie monster with his chocolate chip mouth and his beady fondant eyes. Cookie Monster had first caught my attention from outside the shop so we had to buy him.
There was momentary silence while the children devoured their treats. I used the time wisely and photographed more of the cute baked goods. I loved the little iced sugar cookies packaged and ready for gift giving. There were teapots of all colours, happy pirates, sad pirates and angry pirates, and the cutest cookie of all, a little buzzing bee in a gorgeous old fashioned cake tin.
Being the Christmas holidays the shop was still full of festive cakes such a rum balls and white chocolate snowmen.
There were gingerbread houses of varying sizes gorgeously decorated with lollies.
I loved the bright red mistletoe on the Christmas cupcakes and the iced shortbread Christmas Trees.
The chocolate cupcakes also got my attention, they were so nicely decorated. I couldn’t imagine trying to eat one by myself but it would be such a gorgeous little gift.
The Sweetest Things also makes wedding and special event cakes to order.
The shop is located at Shop 4, Crowne Plaza, Terrigal, Phone 02 4385 2253.
Ferrero Rocher Cupcake
I was very excited to be told that Ferrero Rocher would be advertising on my site. You may have noticed that I love desserts! So in celebration I decided that I would bake a tribute to the great chocolate.
This is my first Ferrero Rocher inspired dessert, but you can rest assured I have a few more planned to follow. Top of the list had to be a cupcake!
The cupcake itself is a moist brownie style cake which has Frangelico, honey and melted dark chocolate to give it the rich decedent flavours found in the Ferrero. The frosting is a lush Nutella and dark chocolate butter cream icing, and the “piece de resistance”, naturally a Ferrero Rocher chocolate is perched, pride of place!
Ingredients:
250gm butter
150gm dark chocolate
¾ cup honey
1 cup sugar
1 cup condensed milk
1 cup Frangelico
1 ½ cups plain flour
¾ cup SR flour
¼ cup cocoa
2 eggs
Method:
Pre heat the oven to 150 degrees.
In a saucepan over a low heat, combine the butter, chocolate, honey, sugar, condensed milk and Frangelico until all the ingredients are melted.
Place the flours, and cocoa in a mixing bowl and pour the chocolate mixture into the flour.
Once flours and chocolate are combined add the two eggs and mix well.
Pour batter into prepared cupcake pan and bake.
Bake for 15-20 mins
Frosting
250gm butter
160 gm dark chocolate melted
1 cup Nutella
2 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup cream
In an electric mixer beat the butter, chocolate, Nutella and icing sugar until well combined and fluffy.
Add the cream to the mixture and beat again for about 3 mins. The mixture should be fluffy and light and increased in volume.
Place mixture into a piping bag and ice the cooled cupcakes. Add a Ferrero Rocher to the top of the cupcakes. Refrigerate the cupcakes. Take the cupcakes out of the fridge prior to serving to bring up to room temperature.
If you are now craving the Ferrero, take a look at the new Ferrrero Boutique website. Maybe do some Christmas shopping online by clicking in the lovely chocolate image to the right. I will be back tommorrow to tell you all about the launch.
Spring Cupcakes
These little spring cupcakes are a sweet mix of orange cupcake, mango syrup and mango ganache covered in a fondant icing.
This is my first attempt at decorating a cupcake with anything other than a thick slab of butter cream or straight icing. I am the first to admit that I am not a patient person, and anything requiring fine motor skills is usually a little beyond me. But, from a distance, I am calling these cupcakes a success. Some are a little lopsided, but still not bad for someone who is all thumbs!
The taste however is out of this world, even if I do say so myself.
Cake Ingredients:
6 T/s Butter Melted
4 Eggs
6 T/s freshly squeezed orange
finely grated rind from 2 oranges
2 cups SR flour
1 ½ cups sugar
Mango Ganache Ingredients:
200gm Cadbury Dream Chocolate
3 T/s Mango Syrup
1/3 cup Mango Syrup (additional) *see recipe
1 pkt white fondant
pink food colouring
Method:
Mango Syrup should be made ahead of time and cooled in the fridge. *See recipe
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl.
Add all the wet ingredients to the bowl of dry, and mix together by hand.
Spoon mixture into cupcake papers and bake for approximately 10- 20mins (depending on size).
To make the ganache, warm white chocolate in the microwave for 1min, stir and add the mango syrup, return to the microwave for 30 seconds or until mixture is fluid when stirred.
Cool the cupcakes on a wire rack. Once cooled, cut a circle from the top of the cakes and scoop out about 1 teaspoon of cake.
Using the straight mango syrup add about 1/3 of a teaspoon to each of the cupcake cavities.
Next take a teaspoon of the ganache and fill the cupcakes to the top. Try to ensure you have a smooth flat surface.
Open the prepared fondant and divide into 2 balls. 2/3 of the fondant will remain white. 1/3 will be coloured pink.
Roll out the white fondant and cut into circles a suitable size to cover the cupcake. Use a fluted biscuit cutter.
Gently cover each of the cupcakes with the fondant.
Dip a chopstick in pink food colouring and wipe the chopstick over the reserved ball of white fondant. Knead the colour through the fondant until you achieve even pink colouring.
Roll out the pink fondant and using a flower cookie cutter to cut flowers for each of the cupcakes.
With the remainder of the white fondant cut a smaller flower.
Using the pink fondant roll a ball to form the centre of each flower.
Assemble the flower in the centre of each of the cupcakes.
So why spring cupcakes??? They weather has been perfect for picnicking, and I loved the idea of a citrusy cupcake with a spring time flower on the top, to celebrate the start of my favourite time of year.
So please tell me, what sweet treat do you like to take on a picnic?
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I wish I had you for my mum when I was 5!
That cake would have been the talk of the town for the rest of the year - fantastic job.
A lot of your blogs will be interactively design and style that visitor share data to read your blog.
Thank you so much, it is going to be a wonderful surprise for my Mum, I wish everyone a great day with your own special people, those who helped you become who you are today.
Mum definitely deserves the hamper, because she is an amazing woman that has brought up 3 kids through tough times. She is the best mum a son could ask for.
She's had it tough, working hard
deserving much more than just a card
So let's raise a glass and toast her true
The best person in the world - Mum, that's you!
Thanks for the info on Rasa Malaysia's book. I used to visit her website for recipes but some time ago, igot a new PC and forgot to bookmark it!
You're too modest Julie! You did a great job with the cake! :D
Yellow strawberries and cream is just perfect for mum as a reward for putting up with two kids who were a pain in the bum.
I would have loved to have seen those martini glasses! Hope Miss A had a lovely time celebrating turning 5 :D
It shouldn't. It should go to me as whilst trying to make sure my mum, step-mum, MIL, Step-MIL, 3 x Grandmas are spoilt on Mother's Day, I always seem to get forgotten!
My poor old mum is battling to care for my step dad who has advanced Parkinsons. My real dad who has had a stroke still expects her to be there for him, my bro is going bankrupt and she lives two states away from her only gransdon. Her life has little joy- JUst wish for one thing nice to happen to her. We all love our mums, good luck to you all!
Perfect place to relax and forget about all the troubles we have in the city and just unwind ~ can't wait to go to somewhere like this hehe
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