Roopa While I like to experiment with my baking, it’s nice to have some go-to recipes that always turn out well. These are all quite easy to make, and very easily adaptable. Go-To Chocolate Recipe These are moist but crumbly, with a good amount of chocolate flavour. EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES 1 cup flour 50g cocoa … More Go-To Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcake Recipes
Roopa These puff pastry cinnamon rolls were a multi-day venture. I made the puff pastry on the first day, and did the rolling out and baking on the second day. It worked out pretty well since you need to thoroughly chill puff pastry dough anyways. I used rough puff pastry, but traditional puff pastry is … More Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls
Roopa I tried experimenting with some different flavour combinations today. I made cinnamon chocolate cupcakes with a flour based icing. The cupcakes themselves were more brownie-like than cake-like, so it’s really about personal preference. Some people LOVED them, but others prefer a crumblier cake. The frosting – found in this book – is much less … More Cinnamon Chocolate Cupcakes with Cinnamon Frosting
Alana As much as I prefer making cakes and cupcakes from scratch, sometimes a box cake or two creeps into my baking repertoire. Box cakes are actually pretty good, but I do like to modify the ingredients on occasion. Adding a box of pudding mix, or substituting buttermilk for regular milk changes it up a … More Box Cake
Alana I love colourful cupcakes, especially when there is more than one colour. I definitely would say that I prefer Americolor over Wilton brand gels (pastes?). I’ve noticed that Wilton is streaky sometimes, which can be a little bit frustrating when you’ve worked hard on baking and decorating a cake/cupcakes. Tube method I’ve tried a … More Colourful Icing Swirls
Roopa Today was my first time going to Hendrix, a fancy kitchen supply store. I really wanted to buy all the things, but I limited myself to a few excellent items. I sort of take after my dad in that I shop a little backwards; rather than buying tools for a project, I like to … More So Many Things!
Alana Oh the Nanaimo bar birthday cake. I would consider this to be the cake I should be proudest of, and therefore chose it as the subject of my first post on Chateau Gateau! The initial concept of a Nanaimo bar + cake mash-up was (unfortunately) not my idea. When my buddy Nate’s birthday was … More Nanaimo Bar Birthday Cake
Roopa I got to try out my new book already! It’s my friend’s birthday on Saturday, and he requested some form of marble cake. Handily enough, I found a marble cake recipe in ‘Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.’ The cake began with making the chocolate and vanilla batters, and mixing them together. I don’t … More Marble Cake
I was gifted recipe books for my birthday! One of them may have been from myself. I am very excited to start trying these out!
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