December 2011
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Gingerbread Cupcakes
Yum! I can’t wait to try making these! You can view the recipe here
November 2011
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Birthday Chocolate Cupcakes
My new boss is having a birthday!
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup boiling water
1 1/3 cup plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
120g butter
1 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
Method
1. Add cocoa and boiling water, stir until smooth 2. Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy 3. Add eggs, one at a time, beat until smooth 4. Add vanilla, flour, baking powder...
October 2011
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5 minute chocolate cake
Sorry for my extended absence! Moving is a lengthy process!
Nothing beats a warm chocolate-y cake on a chilly Sunday evening! But when you don’t feel like a full on baking session and the only chocolate you have in the house is in powder form…what do you do?
{Beware:- This the most dangerous cake recipe in the world. You are now only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time...
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July 2011
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Birthday Gluten Free Cupcakes!
These last few weeks have been so tiring! I’ve been doing some work experience in a law firm to finish off my qualifications and I have not had much time to spend baking or blogging. One of my good GF friends had a birthday a few weeks ago, so I could hardly resist baking her some cupcake treats!
PS: Tumblr has gone and done something so that I can no longer re-size the photos so I...
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Ultimate Fudge Brownies
I thought it was about time to bake something other than cupcakes….plus Boyfriend has been badgering me for brownies since a colleague bought some in to work.
~RECIPE~
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups coca powder (unsweetened)
2 3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
5 large eggs
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 2/3 cups plain flour
1. Position a rack...
June 2011
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Birthday Cupcakes!
It was my manager’s birthday on Friday and she managed to keep quiet about it until it was all over and done with. But I decided that since I had this big bowl of Ganache in my fridge I might as well make her some birthday cupcakes!!
Novice or Pro?
The difference between an novice and a professional baker….a novice still burns cupcakes in the oven.
I’m a novice >.<
May 2011
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Birthday Mini Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
One of my close friends is having a very large joint triplicate birthday party tonight. When she came to visit me last night, I impulsively decided to bake her LOTS of mini cupcakes for the event =D. We (I*) baked for HOURS and I am pretty chuffed at the end result.
I used the same recipe for the Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes in my previous post, but I used normal self-raising flour...
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Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes
I have been meaning to find a good gluten free chocolate cupcake recipe for a while for my friends/family and I managed to find a really simple and delicious recipe here.
Ingredients
1 2/3 cups gluten free self raising flour – I used Orgran (which is available from Woolies!!)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups milk
100g melted butter or ...
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My new "Mix Master"
So I might really want a mix master. And I might kind of have bought one. Except it didn’t cost me an arm and a leg, and it’s not a “Mix Master”. But it IS a stand mixer that only cost me $30 from a discount store. SCORE!! So to celebrate my epic win, I decided to bake!
And it was so worth the $30.
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Elana's Pantry →
All the gluten-free recipes you could possibly want!
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“Procrastibaking: a portmanteau word to describe the process of baking for the...”
– my friend Mooncake saw this somewhere and thought I might like it!
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Ginger cupcakes
I’ve been craving gingerbread biscuits or men or something with ginger in it for a while now, so in the spirit of learning new things I thought I would mix and mash some recipes together and make Ginger cupcakes. Yum!
Because I sort of made the recipe up as I went, they were good and really yummy but really moist and sticky, so the recipe needs perfecting yet. ...
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Not related to baking!
But she is so cute! Meet my puppy (who is not really a puppy anymore) - Hollie =)
To adorable!
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Playing around in photoshop
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Vanilla and Vanilla/Coffee Cupcakes
Woohoo! Got my new camera today!!! I squealed and jumped and danced when it arrived at work today I was so excited! I may have played with it on my lunch break… and then when I got home I thought I would whip up some cupcakes and test it out! It is AWESOME! The quality of the photos compared to a point-and-shoot is just epic, I think I’m in love!
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I'm so excited!!
I feel like a kid before Christmas. Except Santa got delayed by some horrible freak accident and it’s now New Year’s Eve and I still haven’t got my presents. Because I just bought a Canon 400D with a memory card and a camera bag from a friend for $300 and its NOT HERE YET!!! Granted it’s three years old but I don’t care I’ve wanted one for so long and I’m...
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Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes - DELICIOUS!
For those of you who love coffee, you NEED to make these cupcakes!!! I have only just started drinking coffee, but I made these and took them into work where they were devoured in about two hours by coffee-loving junkies with rave reviews. One of the girls who had never really eaten my cupcakes before because she was “watching her weight” ate TWO and said they were the best cupcakes...
“When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko...”
– http://www.quotegarden.com/food.html
April 2011
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Birthday Cake!
Every year my boyfriend and I have a massive birthday party as we are only two days apart. Although we only have one party, its a huge one and this year I knew I would be making our own birthday cakes..I even took the day off work to make them!!
These are two tiered Moist Chocolate Cake’s filled with Buttercream Frosting in the middle, on the top/sides and the piping on the edge. The...
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My new cupcake stand!
It is awesome!! It was only $18 from Bargain City =D I have already put it to good use!
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Photographing Food
Something I want to start getting into now that I have this blog up and running is learning how to take awesome pictures of my projects - and surprisingly I have found some really useful sites and thought I would share:
Food Photography Blog
Depth of Field
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Useful Websites
There are so many websites out there about cupcakes and cake decorating that sometimes it felt like looking through a haystack for a needle trying to find some good information and tips.
I have found Wilton’s an invaluable resource for recipes and especially decorations tips and techniques!! They have a great section on piping and which tips create which looks.
It got a little bit...
Trial and Error
There are so many amazing cupcakes out there that sometimes I feel a little overwhelmed and I can’t even imagine where to begin. But I did begin, even though the first few times my piping attempts looked a bit like colourful turds:
Although I have much got better:
