Summer is finally underway and though you were probably expecting to see a post on ‘How to get the perfect bikini body‘, you’re going to get a ‘How to hide in a muffin top‘ one instead as we’re talking baking again! 😀 Though I wasn’t planning to do another post on baking so soon, I couldn’t help but share this one as these cupcakes are too hard to resist! Also, I have an upcoming trip planned to visit the family soon, so the days have been filled with shopping, shopping and more shopping … thus, very little time to sit down and write something at the mo! Besides, I am certain you are busy planning out your own trip and these scrumptious looking cupcakes are just what you needed to see after the frustration of everything that goes into organising a holiday …. So fasten your seat belts coz we are now ready for take off ….
My mum is very fond of gardening and has an extremely beautiful garden. That leaves me with no choice but to develop an interest in gardening too …. buuut … the edible kind! While in her house, you’ll find a lush green garden, colourful flowers and birds chirping … in my garden, you’ll find a vanilla cupcake with chocolate buttercream frosting (that’s the garden), marshmallows (those will be the flowers) and sprinkles flying everywhere! The life span of her garden is probably all-year round, but the life span of my edible garden is less than 24 hours coz they are hard to resist! You’ll be going ‘Mmmmm’ from the very first bite itself. I hope you haven’t already decided these are too hard to make, coz I have included a tutorial below just to prove you can! But before we get to that, need to go over the recipe first ….
Serving: makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients for the cupcake:
All Purpose Flour: 1 and 1/3 cup
Unsalted Butter (at room temperature): 113 grams
Caster Sugar: 1 cup
Eggs: 2
Baking Powder: 2 tsp
Vanilla Essence: 2 tsp
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Whole milk: 1/3 cup
Mini Marshmallows: as required
Ingredients for the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
Icing Sugar: 2 and 1/2 cups
Unsalted Butter (at room temperature): 125 grams
Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp
Whole Milk: 1 tbsp
Melted Chocolate: 1/4 cup
Cocoa Powder: 1/4 cup
Method for the cupcakes:
- Pre-heat your oven at 180 degrees Celsius and have your cupcake tray ready lined with cases.
- In a bowl whisk together the butter and sugar until it forms a creamy mixture.
- Add the eggs one by one, followed by vanilla essence.
- In a separate bowl, add all the dry ingredients together i.e.. all purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Mix the ingredients with a spoon or spatula.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and gently fold (I would recommend you use a spatula for this process instead of a hand-whisk to avoid over-mixing which would result in hard cupcakes) until the ingredients are well-combined.
- Add the whole milk to the batter and fold again until smooth.
- Add equal amounts of batter to your cases. The cupcakes should only be filled 2/3rd full as they will rise during the baking process.
- Bake the cupcakes in the pre-heated oven for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cupcake comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Method for the chocolate buttercream frosting:
I would recommend using a stand mixer for the frosting as it takes a bit of time.
- In a bowl, beat the unsalted butter at room temperature until it starts to go a bit white (from yellow). This takes approximately 5 minutes.
- Add the vanilla essence, followed by the icing sugar (a little at a time), and beat again until all ingredients are well-combined.
- Add approximately 1 and 1/2 tbsp of milk and beat again until it forms stiff peaks.
- Add the melted chocolate and cocoa powder to the frosting and combine well.
Method to decorate:
Just one look at the tutorial below, and you’ll be going OMG at how easy they are to decorate …. but sssshhhhh, lets keep that a secret! 😉
Now that there is nothing left to do but to eat them, time to sign off and go over the pending shopping list again …
Until the next post, lets keep it strictly lighthearted! 🙂
Oh yummy. I will drool in my dreams!
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Haha make sure you are walking if you will be eating those in your dreams 😂
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I think I run sometimes as Hubby says I kick him!
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Haha! Run Forest Ruuun 😁
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OMG. Those are sooo pretty, I don’t think I could bring myself to ever eat them. 😛
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Thank you! You will, you will once you could smell that heavenly chocolate frosting and marshmallows combo … they all scream eat me! Eat me! Hope the tutorial pics made sense coz I expect you to bake these next ☺
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Ha! Oh, wait…you’re serious. 😛
Well, next time I’m feeling adventurous, I just may give it a try…
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Haha! Yes … I’m gonna turn your bake twice a year to thrice 😇 … am sure you’ll do a fab job at it! ☺
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Sure…if your idea of fab involves accidentally burning the house down!
Ok, ok. I’m not quite that bad. 😛
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Says someone who baked an impressive Minion cake 😬
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These are beautiful. I’ll definitely have to try these.
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Thank you! Please do … they look complicated but so easy … let me know how you get on 🙂
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These are so pretty and very nice marshmallow decoration 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Yummy, yummy…
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Thank you ☺
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Beautiful and delicious…a perfect combination!
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Thank you very much! 😊 Chocolate & Marshmallows combination never fails 🙂
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WOW!! You’re an artist!!
Start a bakery man!! I’ll come sit there everyday eating your food ❤
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Thank you .. That is a huge compliment! But I just bake for fun and the day I start a bakery, it will turn into a boring job! But if i ever do, my first cake will be a GoT one just for you .. haha!
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Hmmm.. that’s probably true. You keep baking and posting photos like this tho! 😀
Also, this ranks as one of the sweetest things anyone has ever said to me ❤
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Awww, well you still have me grinning at the wonderful compliment too! You made my day …
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Wow… they look so amazing!!!! Also, just to let you know, I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award :), here is a link to my post: https://frankiefancies.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/liebster-award/ xx
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Thank you Frankie!! I have already been nominated for the liebster award … so will combine both questions when I get to it … really appreciate the nomination … will have a look at yours now 🙂
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I’m going to have to drool at this and wait till winter to bake them so I can hide in my giant sweaters. 🙂 So delicious!
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Thank you! 😀 Hope winter is not too far where you are 😂
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Winter doesn’t exist in India. 😂😂😂😂
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I suggest you close the door, turn the ac on full, wear a snow cap and gloves … and bake those cupcakes!
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Hahaha. That sounds like a plan.
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Those look delicious, now I am tempted to make them once I get home
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Thank you Micha … the good news is they are fairly simple and bake in no time … esp if you go for mini versions
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They look amazing!
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Thank you 😙
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Oh my goodness! You have a gift! I couldn’t, for the life of me, bake anything what more something as pretty as this one?
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Thank you so much! Believe it or not, I was just heading over to your blog to see how your trip to Greece was … 🙂
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It will take so many days for me to finish all the posts for that trip so don’t rush. Lol.
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Hehe, too late! Have already updated myself on your trip 😀
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Those are beautiful! Xx
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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These are so beautiful! I’m going to have to try the marshmallow petal thing, if I can keep the marshmallows in the house that long. My son loves them.
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Thank you! Just think marshmallows dipped in chocolate …. Mmmmmmm! 😁
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Hahaha, “how to hide a muffin top”, I definitely need that stat!
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Hahaha 😁
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