Rainbow Cupcakes :)

In december I baked rainbow cupcakes with my boyfriend.
They were yummy but also beautiful.

After making the cake batter we scooped the batter in to multiple plastic cups and added different food colours.



As you can see, we used the colours:
*orange
*red
*pink
*purple
*blue
*green

Then we added a small layer of each colour in each silicon cupcake thingy (they are the pink ones) or the paper cupcake thingy's that are in the cupcake pan..





We did not have enough of each colour since my boyfriend was a bit excited in the beginning and used to much, but that doesn't matter, because they still looked great :D!

The we put them in the oven.

Out of the oven they looked like this:









As you can see, the colours are very bright.
But wait...it gets even better!!!







Aren't those colours amazing!!!?

And after I took a bite out of it :D :





Even the cupcake paper looks like a rainbow.



Other cupcakes:









Sadly, I can't post the recipe today.
I'm at my boyfriend's place and the recipe is at my place, so maybe some other time ;).

Do you bake?
And when you bake, do you keep it neutral or colourful?

Until next time,

Freya

Cupcakes :D

Last saturday me and my friend Marloes decided to bake some cupcakes.

The cupcakes are coconut-vanilla-cinnamon cupcakes and they tasted yummy en sweet.

These were decorated with white(-ish) and green marzipan and black pearls.

We coloured the green marzipan with Wilton food colouring.

The little figure on the middle of the plate is a snowman :D.

He looks kind of weird but it was fun making him.

And these were docorated with fondant glazing.

We put it in the microwave to melt and added some electric purple food colouring.

On top of that we put black pearls and some easter themed sprinkles (eggs, butterfly's, hearts and flowers).

You can't really see it, but the cupcake papers (I'm sure there's a different word for that I don't know) are red with white dots, really cute!!!

We had great fun making, decorating and eating them.

Perhaps we should do this more often ;).

Until next time,

Freya

2 month anniversary cake :D

Last sunday, my boyfriend and I had our 2 month anniversary *cheers*!

It doesn't seem like a long time, but I've never been in such a good relationship, so we thought it was a good reason to bake a cake (especially since our relationship started with baking muffins).

I know it's ugly, but I don't have a proper cake mold or something like that, so this will have to make do.

As you can see, my boyfriend and I like the colour orange (the muffins were orange too ;) ).

Recipe:

Ingredients for the cake itself:

-175g butter (I used a dairy free one), softened or melted

-175 powder sugar (I'm sure it has a different name in English, I just can't recall it)

-3 eggs, beaten

-175g flour

-1,5 or 2 tea spoons of baking powder

-a bit of liquid (I used orange flavoured lemonade siroup)

-a few tea spoons of cinnamon

-a bit of vanilla extract

-2 table spoons of coconut

-2 table spoons of broken line seed (because it's healthy)

-a few handfulls of chopped walnuts

How to make it:

Put the butter and the sugar in a bowl, and mix it with a mixer until you get a light and foamy mass. Add the beaten egg, little by little, while mixing it. Sift the flower and add it bit by bit while mixing.

Then add the liquid and mix again until you get a mass without clumps.

Then add the rest of the ingredients: baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla extract, coconut, line seed and the chopped walnuts.

Mix again and then the mixture is ready.

Put it in the mold, make the top even and push a bit in the middle.

Then bake for 55 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius in a pre-heated oven.

Let the cake cool in the mold for a few minutes, then turn it upside-down and put it on roster to cool down (but still IN the mold to keep it moist).

The rest of the ingredients:

-1 package of whipped soy cream

-1 tin of mandarin parts

-fondant glazing (the kind that turns into a liquid when heated)

-orange food colouring.

Whip the whipped soy cream until it's the right consistency.

Saw the top of the cake of, and open the tin of mandarin parts.

Put the mandarin parts on the cake and the whipped soy cream on top of that.

Then put the top of the cake back on the cake.

Heat the glazing in the microwave until it melts, then add the food colouring and stir.

Heat it again and pour it over the cake.

Cool the cake in the fridge for 2 hours and it's ready to eat!!!

Sorry for the bad translating, but the cake really does taste good ;).

Would you like me to post recipes more often?

Until next time,

Freya

Baking Frenzy

I like to bake.

In fact I like it an awful lot.

Since I'm allergic to dairy, I can't eat even the most basic cookies/cakes/etc. from supermarkets and bakery's, so ... I started baking them myself :D!

Here are a few things I baked the last few months:

*The first time I used buttercream and rasberry icing

*Cinnamon/vanilla/walnut muffins *love* with icing

*These are the first cup cakes I baked in my appartment:D

They were supposed to be blue, but I didn't use enough food colouring, so they turned green.

*This Schwarzwalder Kirsch Torte I baked with my boyfriend, it was delicious (the cake ;) )

*My best friend Marloes baked this with me on a hot sunday

She decorated the pink and blue ones

And I decorated the purple and green ones

And the boyfriend also wanted to decorate one :D

The decorating didn't really go flawless, since the marzipan got sticky because of the hot weather.

These are all the pics I have for now.

Somehow I usually forget to take a picture.

Anyway, I'm probably going to bake a cake today, since the boyfriend and I have our two month anniversary *cheers*.

Do you like to bake, or do you just stick to the eating?

Until next time,

Freya