Pretty cupcake

Day one of project muffcup. I must say, its really not as easy as I thought to create beautiful cupcakes. How to achieve pretty appearance and have it taste just as awesome? Its something to work on. So we plunge into this project not really know how to go about doing it.

Started by shopping at poon huat. Awesome place to get baking materials. Then baking simple vanilla cupcakes as our canvas. Last but not least the decorations.

For the butter cream. I cant remember the exact recipe quantity. But its simply, butter, icing sugar and vanilla and colouring.

Used the jelly heart shaped mould to bake the first batch of cupcakes and the result was pretty good. Easy to remove, easy to wash.

How to get purple with primary colours? Proportions are important. We did trial an error.

The recipe for the butter cream (from memory)

115g Butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

Icing sugar ( start by adding 1 cup, at a time till you achieve the consistency desired.)

2 tbss milk

Cream butter and vanilla.

Add Sugar.

Beat in Milk

*Important not to over beat the mixture or it might become too watery.

Ferrero Rocher Cupcake with chocolate Ganache.

Today we celebrated Marcus's belated birthday and I decided to share some of my baking love with my 'german' friends. It was nice to sit around and bitch about things in general.

I had in mind what I wanted to bake. But wanted to make it a little more fancy. Since there is a box of Ferrero Rocher lying around, I decided to use a simple vanilla cupcake. Which I got from the Martha steward's Billy's Vanilla cupcake recipe. Before putting the cupcakes into the oven, I place a Ferrero Rocher into each cupcake mixture. Much to my surprise the Chocolate did not melt in the heat and the form remained even after the heat!

I also found a really neat recipe for chocolate ganache and tried it out too.

Looks like a donut top down.

Piped the Chocolate Ganache round the chocolate.

Here is the Chocolate Ganache recipe.

Really easy to make!