Brownie and lavender
Dec 23, 2011 Cupcakes Bakery
It’s been a while since I baked and blogged about cupcakes. I thought it was high time to fix that! Some friends gave me the Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes book a while ago and I haven’t done a recipe from it yet. I found one that was a flavour combo I hadn’t done before: chocolate and lavender. It was also a way of doing icing I hadn’t done before so I was eager to try it out. Since I didn’t have any food colouring handy I left the icing white. They turned out quite tasty. I’ve always had to use a lot of lavender to get the taste to come out, but this recipe only called for 1/2 a teaspoon and you can really taste it in the icing.
Enjoy 
Tags: Chocolate, Food Colouring, Lavender, Martha Stewart, Teaspoon
Lavender and honey
Oct 20, 2010 Cupcakes Bakery
This week I wanted to try something with soft and subtle flavours: lavender and honey. The lavender cake turned out great, but the honey flavoured icing was a bit too subtle for me. I’ll wait until I get my testers opinion of it before passing a final judgement on it though. I already have a bunch of ideas for another go at it. I definitely want to try this icing again!
lavender syrup:
- 4 tbs of water
- 2 tbs of sugar
- 2 tbs of lavender flowers
method:
- put the water, sugar and lavender in a small pot
- bring to a boil and reduce heat
- let it reduce
- sift to get the flowers out (press down on the flowers against the sift to make sure you get all the syrup out of the flowers)
cake:
- 3/4 cup of butter
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 3/4 cups of flour
- 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- 3/4 cup of whipping cream
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1tbs of vanilla
- lavender syrup
- 2 tbs of finely chopped lavender flowers
method:
- preheat the oven to 350
- start by beating the butter until it is light and fluffy
- add the sugar and beat thoroughly
- add the eggs one at a time and beat in between each addition
- sift the flour and baking powder together and combine with the butter/sugar mix
- mix the whipping cream, milk, vanilla and lavender syrup together and then add it to the dough
- line a cupcake mould with paper cups and fill them up to 3/4
- bake for 20 minutes
icing:
- 1 cup of butter
- 2 cups of powdered sugar
- 1 tbs of milk
- 1/3 cup of honey
method:
- beat the butter until it is light and fluffy
- sift the icing sugar and beat
- add the milk and beat until completely combined and fluffy
- add the honey and beat one last time
Enjoy!
Tags: 2 Eggs, Baking Powder, Boil, Cream Milk, Flour, Honey Cake, Judgement, Last Time, Lavender, Lavender Flowers, Paper Cups, Pot, Powdered Sugar, Sugar Mix, Tbs, Tsp, Vanilla Syrup, Whipping Cream
