Big big news!
Jul 1, 2011 Cupcakes Bakery
Hi everyone! Feels like I haven’t update my blog in forever! Though I’ve only skipped one week. I’ve been a busy little bee as it were. I’ve got big big news: I’m now taking orders! You can head to the Buy Cupcakes page to see the prices and ordering procedures. I’m really happy about this. I think it’s a major step for me and I’m ready to take on the challenge! I’ve already had a few orders since I put up the page, some chocolate and orange cupcakes with blue and orange icing swirl and my vanilla-blackberry cupcakes. I’m glad to say the customers were quite happy with their orders. I hope to be getting more soon!
I’ve also been baking some new stuff and experimenting. This weekend I baked a peach crumble. I’m rather happy at how it turned out. I used my mom’s recipe. She mostly did it with apples, but she also did it with peaches once in a while. I added some local strawberries and some cardamom to the mix. I think it gave it a nice little touch. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again, I love cardamom! I think it’s too rarely used as a spice in dessert. Go ahead, give it a try. Add some to your next crumble. You won’t be sorry!
Cheers!
Tags: Apples, Blackberry, blog, Cardamom, Cheers, Chocolate, Dessert, Little Bee, Mom, New Stuff, Orange Icing, Peach, Peaches, Spice, Strawberries, Swirl, Vanilla
Vacation duo
Sep 2, 2010 Cupcakes Bakery
Hello there! I’ve been on vacation since the last post and enjoying every minute of it, which means I’m behind on my blogging. Well on this very rainy day, I’m here to catch up and tell you I will start working and baking regularly again in September. In the mean time I have two cupcakes to show you!
The first cupcake is chai tea with orange icing. I tried a new chiffon cake recipe. I found it tasted very eggy, but that’s partly because the flavour of the chai didn’t come through enough. One of the ingredients listed was water, so I thought I would just infuse the water with tea, but that wasn’t enough. As my brother later suggested, I could have put spices like cinnamon that are in chai tea directly in the cake batter to bring the taste out more. The texture was great, soft and spongy. I will need to give this one another try!
The second cupcake is vanilla with lavender icing. I had trouble getting the lavender flavour in the icing. I tried making a lavender syrup, but that was always too subtle and overpowered by the butter. I ended up chopping some dried lavender flowers and putting that directly in the icing. That did the trick! The cake was a vanilla yogourt cake, the same I used for the mango and pomegranate cupcake.
Cheers 
Tags: Blogging, Brother, Cake Batter, Cheers, Chiffon Cake Recipe, Cinnamon, Cupcake, Cupcakes, Flavour, Hello, Lavender, Lavender Flowers, Mean Time, Orange Icing, Rainy Day, Spices, tea, Texture, Vanilla
