Pink Velvet Cuppies

 Selamat Hari Raya!

I'm in still in my raya mood, eventhough I had to get back to work on the 6th day of Raya..Booo. Well. at least I had a great time celebrating Eid with my family. Hope it was great for everyone else too :)
Anyway, it has been a week after my Eid holidays, and my office planned a Pot Luck for Eid. I'm not much of a cook, so I opted to bring desserts.

I used the same recipe as the Red Velvet Cake, but since I'm out of red food colouring, I used pink food colouring instead, hence the name, Pink Velvet cuppies. I doubled the recipe and managed to get about 35 pcs of medium size cuppies (2.5" souffle cups)

Since the the recipe for the cake you can get it from here, I just want to share the recipe for the frosting. It claims to be a pipeable cream cheese frosting and it is easy to make.

Pipeable Cream Cheese Frosting adapted from ThePinkWhisk

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Yields enough frosting to cover about 32 cupcakes

Ingredients:
70 g of butter,soften
250 g cream cheese, cold
200 g icing sugar, sifted (use less if you don't like it too sweet)

Steps:
1. Cream butter and a tablespoon of icing sugar until fluffy and light.

2. Add the cold cream cheese, and mix well. Make sure you don't overbeat the cream cheese, since it will turn runny if beaten too long.

3. Tadaaaaa!

I personally love this recipe, and planned to make swirls as topping for the cuppies, but since my piping skills are crappy, i just spread the frosting with a spatula and decorate with sugar hearts. 

Pack and ready to go!

Here are a few photos from the pot luck. I had fun, and am very very full afterward. 

Food Galore!

Pink Velvet in action! These were gone in a jiffy :P

Me and my colleagues

Till next time,
Happy trying!

Love,
eL

Double Choc Chip Muffin

I bake these muffins a few weeks back, but only got around to blog it today, since I'm on medical leave for the week. I love muffins and I love chocolate. Combined the two together, and I'm in bliss :)
This recipe was adapted from Nigella Lawson's choc chip recipe here


Double Choc Muffin
Difficulty level: Easy 
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Baking time: 25 minutes

Yields: 18 pieces of medium muffins

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 cup milk
90 ml vegetable oil
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence

Steps:
1. Mix all the dry ingredients together (Flour+baking powder+baking soda+cocoa powder+choc chip)

2. Mix all the wet ingredients together (Oil+milk+egg+vanilla essence)

3. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry mixture and stir until combine. DO NOT over-mixed the batter as it will make the muffin dry.

4. Pour into muffin cases and decorate the top with extra chocolate chips and bake for 25 minutes at 160C.

 

5. Tadaaaa!

Taste: Yummy, but I think, next time, I'll substitute the oil with melted butter. I think everything is nicer with butter. hihihihi :D

p/s: I froze my muffins for a week, and it still taste the same. Thaw it out first, then bake for 10 minutes.

Happy trying!

Love,
el

BananaNana Muffin

Last week, when i visited my Fiance's mum, she gave me a bunch of bananas to bring home. I don't really eat like banana, so I decided to turn it into a muffin. :)

The recipe was easy, I don't even use my hand-mixer.

Adapted from The Awesome Banana Muffin Recipe

Ingredients:

6 small bananas, mashed
1/3 cup melted unsalted butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
almond slivers/choc chip for garnish

Steps:

1. Mixed the mashed bananas, melted butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla essence together.

2. Sieve the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a separated bowl.
3. Add the flour mixture and the wet mixture together. Mixed well.

4. Fill into muffin cups, garnish with almond slivers or chocolate chip and bake for 25 minutes at 160C.

The end result:

The taste: Moist, banana cake :)