I'm back! *whips out apron; scurries around the kitchen, pushes and stacks UNI exam notes aside* Yay!! I'm so glad it's finally over! I hope I did okay for all of my papers, but I'm pretty sure I'll make it thru to next semester with ease. SO that's good news *all smiles*Baking is my favourite thing to do when I'm happy or when there's a reason to celebrate. We will be having a couple of friends over tomorrow for an "after-exam-celebration"! I'll probably be busy cooking up a storm in the afternoon, so look out for another party-spread post up in a couple of days.
The inspiration for these cupcakes came from a very creative and adorable monkey. I'm not kidding...it was a monkey! LINK. He's extremely witty and charming; would love to meet him for a big hug one day! *sigh*...I'm a child....A small kid trapped in an adults body*blush*. Most people tell me the way I look often contradicts with the occasional childish personality I portray. I guess I think its fun to be a goof once in awhile...I don't deny that most of my cake creations and imaginative ideas often are extremely immature! I should make an "adult" cake/cupcake one of these days! Haha......or on another train of thought; maybe I should just embrace the child in me....don't most people enjoy looking at adorable and funny things which remind them about how it was being a child? I know I do, that's for sure.
I'm going to share with everyone a deep dark secret of mine....SPuddy....*laughs hysterically* It's a stuffed toy which I have been attached too for almost a decade now! I bring it everywhere! I probably couldn't fall asleep without it. I'm actually quite embarrassed of how much I love this stuffed animal of mine...but I tend to only go crazy and talk to it behind closed doors...*whoopz...said too much* haha...It joined me in the kitchen as I baked and took photographs today.
I didn't have much time to waste in the kitchen tonight. I swiftly made a simple batch of almond chocolate cupcakes from scratch and popped them in the oven. I made a small bowl of buttercream with 60gms of softened butter beaten with 250gms of sifted icing sugar. This was spread over the cooled cupcakes to form a flat-ish
surface. I then piped the eyes of the panda with a piping bag filled with 100gms of melted dark chocolate mixed with 2 tbsp's of cream to form a thick paste.The eyes and nose of the panda was done with inverted chocolate chips and the ears were merely chocolate coated peanuts stuck to the edges.Pipe the mouth on with a scoop of butter cream coloured with a few drops of red colouring.
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Halo..Suyin.. How's your EXAM getting on..... Wow your Panda Cupcakes are so CUTE>......
LOL that Spuddy is one mean baker!! Maybe he and Cocoa should have a play date?
looks delish! i love the inspiration. because i'm obsessed with monkeys!! give me those cupcakes!!
toooo cute!
hope exams went well.
i just brought a friend visiting to cupcakes on pitt yesterday, heh
yeah, i still hv that grainy texture. *sobs* u mentioned dat it's the technique problem, x reli d ingredient's. so do u mind to share that technique? wld be vy grateful!
carrots (again, sowwiee)
oh, i was talking abt the icing.. eh-heh..sorry, must hv gotten u confused.
carrots
ellena : hey! it went well....not as well as I expected it to be, but i think I'll pull through :). thanks!
jen: LOL yea they should! my spuddy isn;t really big enough to hold any utensils though, haha half the time while taking photos I was busy worrying about getting it dirty! haha
pinknest: thanks :) you should try it too! Hi Monkey is hilarious! LOL
tytty: haha thanks :), how did you like thier cupcakes?
Carrots: If you're making buttercream without icing sugar; make sure u grind the castor sugar to a very fine grain. It should be puffy and blowing all over the place when you scoop it up. Make sure you get all of it as well; scoop the sides off of the grinder; to be safe, work it through a fine sieve. The thing with buttercream is, the more you beat, the smoother and creamier it gets, but make sure you're doing this in a cool temperature though. You dont want your butter to melt. And one other thing I sometimes do is add about 1 tbsp of boiling water into my buttercream at the couple of last minutes and whiz till I get a smooth texture.
Tat is a cutey. I shld make them for my dgtr.
i am so pleased to see that spuddy takes after you in the cooking departement!
I like the delicious looking cupcakes, especially the panda cupcakes, they're so cute!
You probably don't expect a comment on a post you made so long ago, but I just found this page & these panda cupcakes are adorable! And so is SPuddy =]
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