Kit Kat Confetti Cupcakes!

So what do you get when you have cupcake fever and lodsa hundreds and thousands and two packets of kit Kat chunky in your fridge?

A kit kat confetti cupcake!

I made these in darling little souffle cups and then printed out these cupcake wrappers from here!
Doesn't it look GREAT??

The icing is a simple buttercream coloured PINK for my friend's birthday (she's a pink chick, you see)

I'm starting to think Pink is the best icing colour ever.

The verdict? Great!
but the hundreds and thousands kind of lost some of their colour in the oven.
But you still get the pretty coloured dots in you cake.

i would advice you to put about two tablespoons of these little jimmies.
What am i doing?
here is the recipe:

Kit Kat Confetti Cupcakes:
225g unsalted butter, soft
225g sugar
225g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp hundreds ad thousands
2 Kit Kat Chunky bars, cut into 12 equal pieces

Cream butter and sugar together till pale yellow. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine all the dry ingredients and add it to the beaten butter mixture together with the vanilla essence. Whisk with an electric mixer until smooth, about 3 mins. Add the hundreds and thousands and mix until well distributed.

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C and line a cupcake tray with 12 cupcake liners. Drop a tablespoon of batter onto each cupcake liner and then place a Kit Kat piece on top. Cover the Kit Kat piece with the remanding batter.

Bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes in tin before removing to place on a wire rack.

Buttercream
225g unsalted butter, soft
375g icing sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp of flavouring (optional)
Dash of colouring (optional)

cream butter until it is soft and very pale in colour. while whisking, add the sifted icing sugar a spoonful at a time. Make sure the icing sugar is well combined. Lastly add flavouring and colouring (optional)

There we go.

here is a cross section of my Kit Kat Confetti Cupcakes
This was the excess batter so it didn't really have many hundreds and thousands inside.
i also didn't make much of an effort to dress it up. i was just dying to see what it looked like on the inside.

Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

The bad presentation of this cake was probably my fault.
i forgot to use a spatula to even out the cake before i baked it.

huh.
But whatever it lacked in looks, i guess it made up for it taste.
That's what Daisy said anyway.

So it's a tea cake. I guess it's like any old cake but for some reason the recipe book had it under 'Tea cakes'.

So here is the recipe.
Hopefully someone else would try it and get it to look a tad bit better than mine.

-60g unsalted butter
-1/3 cup caster sugar
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-1 egg, beaten
-1/2 cup apple, diced
-1 1/4 cup self-raising flour
-1/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and line a 20-cm round tin.

Cream butter, sugar and cinnamon together until smooth. Add egg and beat further.

Mix in the flour and milk.

Fold in the apples.

Bake for 30 min and cool for a further 10 min.

Cinnamon Glace icing
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-87g icing sugar
-Warm water

Mix icing sugar and cinnamon together. Pour in warm water and mix until thick and slightly sticky. Pour over cooled cake.

Maybe i should have taken a photo of the SLICE of cake.
hmmm.

Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

I know what you're thinking.
No, really.
i do.

Whoopie pies?
What on earth is that?

apparently it's the new cupcake.
Although i beg to differ because i LOVE cupcakes and i refuse to believe anything can replace it.

Especially something named--well-whoopie.

Then i got wondering. Whoopie? What is up with that?
So the story behind it is that the Amish women used to bake these pies to put in their husband's lunchboxes when they go out to work in the farms.
And when the Amish guys open the lunchboxes and see the pies, they shout' Whoopie!"

i don't know how much of that story is actually true. Wikipedia can be a deceiving place.

SO i got googling and sadly found out that all whoopie pies require shortening.

It's not that i don't have shortening. i do. It's just that shortening gets me all worried about the trans-fats.
Does Crisco have Trans-fats?

i was about to give up when i realised that half the magic of baking was all about the substituting.
So i replaced the shortening with, you guessed it, butter.

To be a bit more daring, i tried out a Peanut Butter whoopie Pie recipe because i LOVE LOVE PB.

Here's the recipe:

FOR THE PIES:
-2 tbsp peanut butter
-6 tbsp butter
-75g cocoa powder
-185g flour
-200g brown sugar
-225 ml milk
-1 egg
-1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
-1 tsp vanilla
-Salt

1. Preheat oven to 176 degrees Celsius. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.

2. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt together in a medium bowl.

3. In a food mixer, cream together the butter and peanut butter. Add the brown sugar and continue mixing. Add the egg and vanilla and beat further till well mixed.

4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture along with the milk. Make sure it is evenly mixed.

5. Using a cookie scooper, scoop even amounts of batter neatly onto the baking tray and bake for 15 minutes.

FOR THE CREAM:
-2/3 cup peanut butter
-1/2 cup butter
-3/4 cup icing sugar

1. mix all together and use a piping bag to put the icing on the flat side of one pie. Sandwich another pie on top of it.


So. happy baking.
I know baking makes me happy,
whether i burn it or not.

Note: These pies are like spongy-cakey kind of biscuits. Not really pies. i wonder why they call them that.