The smell of chocolate is DIVINE.....!!! My nutella cupcakes are currently happily baking in the oven and wow.... I can really smell the chocolate!!! Yummmyyyy!!! Boy, have I missed my oven and kitchen! :)
This weekend was a food feast!!! Eulynn organised a really nice steamboat dinner last night (forgot to take pics!) for a few of us - such good fun! Loads of food and fantastic fellowship! Friday night we had 2 birthday surprises - which funnily enough I missed both of them by about 5mins! Hahaha! But yes there was more food.... and more laughs and tons of fun!!! This is what is called "home"!!!
Raspberry trifle cupcakes turned out pretty nice, except that I misread the custard icing method and hence it didnt quite have that nice peak form... but it was still pretty yummy! Bought REAL vanilla bean paste (@ $10 a jar! TINY jar too! yikes!) to use as well... :) Anyway, they look a lot prettier than the nutella cupcakes... and it was nice and moist, and not too sweet. This recipe was taken from Donna Hay's magazine... she has some really nice pretty cupcakes in there!
My nutella cupcakes are DONE! I was going to make some pretty decorations and cover it with chocolate frosting, but I think that is going to be an overkill by the smells of it! So perhaps next week we'll do something pretty, for now... we'll enjoy the cupcakes in its natural form, hehe!!! :) (Recipe courtesy from "Baking Sheet" http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com search for "Nutella")
Taste verdict: The recipe was not wrong when it said it would be a little bit tricky to swirl the nutella as the cupcake base is very thick and rich!!! My family enjoyed the cupcakes very much (yay!) - I think it was a rich and solid cupcake, but unfortunately, I think it could have been a bit more moist... it was a little bit more dry than I would have liked it to be! I think it's fairly ordinary... the raspberry trifle one was a little more special! :)
I think next weekend will be proper savoury cooking..... stay tuned!!!
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2 comments:
Yr raspberry trifle cupcakes look great. Yeah, the nutella cupcakes can be a bit dry - I always add layer by layer of nutella in the cupcakes so u can get them at each bite. Am also getting a jar of the vanilla paste from Australia - heard it's really pricey!
The raspberry cupcake sounds and looks really yummy. Unfartunately, I've missed that issue from Donna Hay and was wondering if you could share that recipe with me.
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