Alana + Roopa After recently becoming addicted to ‘The Great British Bake Off,’ we felt a need to diversify from cupcakes. Today’s experiment was a Tarte Tatin, adapted from one of the recipes used on the show. We used apples instead of bananas…mostly because there were apples at my house. The recipe used can be … More Apple Tarte Tatin
Roopa The goal of the day was to create some sort of inceptcupake. It sort of worked. Regardless, they were delicious. I mostly used this recipe:http://www.sprinklebakes.com/2010/05/triple-salted-caramel-cupcakes.html Instead of the brown sugar cupcake, I used this chocolate cupcake recipe. I then piped a little icing on a caramel cup and put it on top!
Roopa I think brown sugar cupcakes are my new favourite type of cupcake, since they’re so buttery and caramelly. I’ve always really liked them, but couldn’t find a single eggless version. It took me about 4 attempts, but I finally managed to create one that I like! The first attempts tasted good, but were a little … More Eggless Brown Sugar Cupcakes
Roopa These needed to be diabetic-friendly, so I went with a whole wheat carrot muffin recipe with a really thin layer of cream cheese icing; I made it a little runnier than usual, so it filled the top of the muffin nicely with a single piping layer. Apparently they were excellent, and didn’t taste healthy … More Healthy(ish) Carrot Cupcakes
Roopa After a few attempts, I perfected an eggless buttermilk cake. I usually like to add blueberries as well. The icing was a pretty basic buttercream, but a white chocolate buttercream goes quite well. INGREDIENTS 82g softened butter 100g sugar 2 tbsp. applesauce 1 tbsp. milk 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar 1 tsp. vanilla extract … More Eggless Buttermilk Cupcakes
Roopa These cupcakes are the direct result of needing to use up random ingredients in my house. They are very sweet (depending on the banana), but pretty excellent. They are a brown sugar cupcake base with almond flavoured whipped cream, bananas, and caramel on top. The brown sugar cupcake has a caramelly taste, so it … More Caramel Banana Cupcakes
Roopa I was feeling bored and unemployed one day, and decided to start experimenting with fondant. I haven’t really worked with it so far, so I thought I’d start with some basic flowers. The cupcake itself is a chocolate cupcake with almond white chocolate frosting. This chocolate cake recipe is my go-to recipe. CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES … More Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes + First Attempts with Fondant
Roopa I felt like doing something a little more artistic, so I made a few types of cookies – specifically, mehndi cookies and COLORFUL SPIRAL COOKIES. I got both ideas from Sprinklebakes, but I changed around the sugar cookie recipe. My take on the mehndi cookie. They definitely improved with each iteration, and google image … More Mehndi Cookies
Strawberry Lavender Buttermilk Cake Alana This year I didn’t really make any plans for my birthday. Turning 22 didn’t really seem like a huge deal, so I decided that I would spend the weekend making myself an extravagant birthday cake. I wanted to make a lavender cake last year, but I didn’t have time because … More Strawberry Lavender Cake
I wanted to make something bright and summery, so I went with triple lemon cupcakes. They gave me a chance to use my new gel food colours, as well as use up some of the MANY flowers I made. My favourite was the lily-esque flower! I used this Lemon Blueberry cake recipe for the cake … More Triple Lemon Cupcakes
Chateau Gateau 