Sunday 27 September 2015

Sunday Baking



Cadbury's Brownie Cupcakes

Sundays are meant for jogger bottoms, baggy tops/hoodies, messy hair and no make up! but for me, as well as all of those, it's my usual baking day. From brownies, to pizza dough balls, to cheese and bacon turn overs. But for these past two Sunday's I've done a bit of a mash up of brownie cupcakes.

Last Sunday(20/09/15) I really fancied a really cute chocolaty cupcake like the ones they sell in a tea room near me, but everywhere I went they had sold out of the ones I wanted - so instead I decided to make my own.  The recipe I used is from the Cadbury's website. This is my go to website for anything I want involving chocolate! Even though it was a recipe meant for just a plain brownie, I used it to make cupcakes. And I loved them that much that I decided to make them again this weekend as I had ingredients left over. When I first made them and used the same measurements of ingredients I managed to get 18 cupcakes all together.



For the brownie itself you need:
175g of butter
3 medium eggs
250g caster suger
 75g plain flour
50g of coco power
175g of chocolate(of your choice)
1tsp of baking power(i only used this as I made them into cakes and wanted them to rise a little)
Cupcake cases

For the topping you need:
125g of butter
125g of icing sugar
50g of chocolate(of your choice)
A piping bag and nozzle
Cadbury's bar chunks(optional or anything of your choice)
Reeces Pieces bits(optional or anything of your choice)
- the first time I made them I used chunks of a Hershey's Cookies and Cream bar

Steps:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 ⁰C, gas mark 4. Grease and line the base and sides of a 20 cm square cake tin with baking parchment.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Cool slightly.
  3. Whisk the eggs and sugar until thick and creamy, pour over the chocolate mixture and fold in.
  4. Sift in the flour and cocoa and fold in the nuts. Pour into the prepared tin, making sure it goes right into the corners and bake for 25-30 minutes. The top should be crusty with a slight wobble underneath.

    Then prepare the buttercream by beating together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in the melted chocolate. Place into a piping bag with nozzle and pipe onto the top of the cakes.


http://recipes.cadbury.co.uk/HomeCategory/RecipeDetails?r=47055 - brownie details
http://recipes.cadbury.co.uk/HomeCategory/RecipeDetails?r=48189 - icing details

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 Sunday 27th September 2015

 Hiya, so all this is all completely new to me and if I'm going to be honest, I don't have a clue ho to use it so if you've got any advice then let me know! but I've originally created this because I've just had so many interesting and exciting things happen to me this year, for example, I've passed my driving test, went to Wireless Festival, my parents got married, visited Brighton and danced at Sadlers Wells in London. And I've got so many more to come so I thought this would be a good idea to put them all on here as memories and so others can see what I'm up too! Also some of my friends own blogs and it just looks like fun!

This blog is just going to be a bit of everything and anything so it's not strictly one thing or another. But just so some of you don't get disappointed, I'm not a beauty blogger!

Now you're probably wondering a bit about me. I'm a 17 year old girl who lives on the south coast of England who's currently studying at college and hopes to go off to university. I'm a dancer and photographer and a rather awkward person at times! I do love beauty and fashion (so there may be a few beauty posts) as well as travelling, and luckily for me I've got a lot to do within' the next year!

Regards to travelling, in December 2015 I'm going on a trip with college to New York for photography, hopefully at the end of March 2016 I'm going to Germany to go see one of my best friends, Paris in July 2016 with dancing, Canada July/August 2016 with my family to see my brother and hopefully somewhere else within' Europe for my boyfriends 21st birthday!(Sh, he doesn't know) and if I pluck up the courage I really want to vlog most of these events as I personally think that seeing live footage is just more interesting than pretty still photos!