also, I know I've been really bad about this. I really hate this set up & am looking at migrating this over to wordpress. I want to set up so I can include my walking/running posts every day & now that I'll have super kitchen, hopefully much more cooking notes.
yeah!! be on the lookout.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
CUPCAKES!!!
Ok. As promised, here's the recipes.
Apologies as the blog I saw this on is someone who prattles on & on. You can ignore all that & just look at the instructions.
Chocolate Stout Cupcakes
- I didn't tweak too much. There's some good advice - have eggs at room temperature.
- For yogurt in baking I always use the 'french style'. it's consistency is similar to cream & works well. I did not have vanilla in the house but the yogurt was vanilla so instead I put in a tsp of whiskey.
- And I used a pinch of allspice instead of the cinnamon & unsweetened cocoa powder instead of the Dutch.
- if you don't have a sifter, whisking dry ingredients will work.
- I did not use Guinness, but trader joe's chocolate stout. Some of them are tricky - they're flavoured with artificial vanilla & can be really strong. but this one tastes like beer & not like it's been stirred with a bad candy bar.
They turned out great. Really moist but also light & fluffy. I used frosting & caramel from a different recipe though, which you'll see here:
Buttercream Frosting & Salted Caramel
for the caramel, again I used the vanilla yogurt instead of heavy cream. It actually gives it a great flavor, creamy but not too sweet. & I used a little extra whiskey as I didn't have vanilla extract on hand.
the same with the buttercream.
No one who tasted has commented on lack of vanilla & the whiskey combined with vanilla in yogurt covered just fine.
Also no mixer so I stirred it all by hand. Yes. Really.
I also made these, which turned out good. Maybe not as impressive as the beer ones.
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
- The ingredients are metric but there's a ton of online conversion if you need that.
- This was the big adjustment. I did not have self rising flour so I looked at subs online & whisked some baking soda & powder in before adding the dry ingredients to wet. For additional help I also added about a 1/3 cup of sparkling water to the orange juice. There's tons of recipes that use orange soda (full of sugar) & the fresh juice/sparkling water combo is the perfect substitute.
I didn't measure too exact on the water. when it was all mixed I put in a bit more to get the consistency I wanted. It's still a pretty thick mixture for cake but cooked up really well.
- I used the same buttercream icing as the others partly because there was a lot of it. & because I didn't want to go super orangey. i mixed in a cream cheese one but it used caster sugar & i was not happy with how it dissolved. or did not. I'd go all powdered if I did that again.
& There we go. Happy to answer any questions.
Apologies as the blog I saw this on is someone who prattles on & on. You can ignore all that & just look at the instructions.
Chocolate Stout Cupcakes
- I didn't tweak too much. There's some good advice - have eggs at room temperature.
- For yogurt in baking I always use the 'french style'. it's consistency is similar to cream & works well. I did not have vanilla in the house but the yogurt was vanilla so instead I put in a tsp of whiskey.
- And I used a pinch of allspice instead of the cinnamon & unsweetened cocoa powder instead of the Dutch.
- if you don't have a sifter, whisking dry ingredients will work.
- I did not use Guinness, but trader joe's chocolate stout. Some of them are tricky - they're flavoured with artificial vanilla & can be really strong. but this one tastes like beer & not like it's been stirred with a bad candy bar.
They turned out great. Really moist but also light & fluffy. I used frosting & caramel from a different recipe though, which you'll see here:
Buttercream Frosting & Salted Caramel
for the caramel, again I used the vanilla yogurt instead of heavy cream. It actually gives it a great flavor, creamy but not too sweet. & I used a little extra whiskey as I didn't have vanilla extract on hand.
the same with the buttercream.
No one who tasted has commented on lack of vanilla & the whiskey combined with vanilla in yogurt covered just fine.
Also no mixer so I stirred it all by hand. Yes. Really.
I also made these, which turned out good. Maybe not as impressive as the beer ones.
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
- The ingredients are metric but there's a ton of online conversion if you need that.
- This was the big adjustment. I did not have self rising flour so I looked at subs online & whisked some baking soda & powder in before adding the dry ingredients to wet. For additional help I also added about a 1/3 cup of sparkling water to the orange juice. There's tons of recipes that use orange soda (full of sugar) & the fresh juice/sparkling water combo is the perfect substitute.
I didn't measure too exact on the water. when it was all mixed I put in a bit more to get the consistency I wanted. It's still a pretty thick mixture for cake but cooked up really well.
- I used the same buttercream icing as the others partly because there was a lot of it. & because I didn't want to go super orangey. i mixed in a cream cheese one but it used caster sugar & i was not happy with how it dissolved. or did not. I'd go all powdered if I did that again.
& There we go. Happy to answer any questions.
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