Walnut Cupcakes

Still have some walnut left and not sure what to do with it, so this is the most simple solution ;p This yields about 10-11 cupcakes. Although the taste is not strong, the texture is good and walnuts gave it some crunchy bites.

Ingredients:

Self Raising Flour (190gm)
Milk Powder (2 tbsp)
Butter (150gm)
Sugar (130gm)
Egg (3)
Yoghurt (4tbsp)
Walnuts (toasted and roughly chopped)

Preheat oven at 180C

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add in egg one by one and beat well after each addition.
3. Add yoghurt and beat till combined.
4. In another bowl, mix self raising flour and milk powder evenly.
5. Add flour mixture into no. 3 and mix till combined.
6. Add in walnut and mix till combined.
7. Spoon into cupcake pan lined with liners. Bake for 25min or until cooked.

Raisin and Walnut Cupcakes

This cake is very easy to make and yet the result is excellent. The cake is fluffy, moist and the aroma of the toasted nuts in the cake really makes me want a second piece of it. If you want to bake a simple and nice cake, I would say this is it.

You could bake it as one whole cake in a larger baking pan or in a loaf tin and even in cupcakes form. The baking would be longer though if you bake it as one cake.

Ingredients:

Butter (150gm)

Sugar (130gm)

Eggs (3)

Vanilla Essence (1/2 tsp)

Plain Yoghurt (5tbsp)

Self Raising Flour (190gm)

Milk Powder - you can use soy powder too (2tbsp)

Walnut (chopped coarsely and toasted)

Raisins

*For walnut and raisins, put as much as you like.

Preheat oven at 175C.

Method:

1. Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Add in egg one by one and beat till combined.

3. Add in vanilla essence and yoghurt. Beat till combined.

4. In another bowl, mix self raising flour and milk powder evenly.

5. Pour in the flour mixture into the wet mixture.

6. Mix evenly.

7. Add in raisins and walnuts.

8. Pour mixture into baking pan.

9. Bake for 30-35min (for loaf tin and cupcakes). You might need to bake longer if you bake it in a large pan.

Cappuccino Cupcake

It smells just like a cup of cappuccino!

Ingredients:
Butter (140gm)
Sugar (120gm)
Egg (3)
Cream Cheese (4tbsp)
Cappuccino Paste (4 tsp)
Self Raising Flour (190gm)
Soy Milk Powder (2 tbsp)
Almond Bits (60gm)

Preheat oven at 180C

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
2. Add egg one by one and beat till combined.
3. Add in cream cheese and cappuccino paste and beat till combined.
4. Fold in sifted self raising flour and soy milk powder.
5. Mix in almond bits.
6. Spoon into cupcake paper liners till it fills 2/3 of the cup.
7. Bake for 30min or till cooked.

Strawberry Jam Cupcake

Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding….yeah, I think that’s how the muffins felt. Just look at the photos, don’t they look like they’re bleeding? Haha….

I was thinking what to bake the other day when Lizard Meng suggested muffins with strawberry jam. So, I thought “Why not?”

As for the bleeding, I read in a recipe book which says if we need to bake with jam, we need to use a special kind of jam that’s suitable for baking. Of course I have no idea where to get such special jam, so I make do whatever I can find in Tesco ;p
Not bad la for 1st attempt.


Ingredients:
Plain flour (1 ¾ cup)
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence 80gm butter
1 egg
1 cup yoghurt (I used ½ cup plain yoghurt and ½ cup apricot flavour yoghurt)
½ milk

Preheat oven at 180C.

Method:
1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla essence.
2. Beat in the egg, milk and yoghurt.
3. Sift flour and bicarbonate soda.
4. Fold in the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.
5. Fill up muffin cup with 1/3 of the mixture.
6. Add some strawberry jam in the centre. Top with the flour mixture until the muffin cup is 2/3 full.
7. Bake for 25min or till cooked.

Cranberries Cupcake

Yes, I am now really into baking or should I say learning how to bake?? Haha...Anyway, this is the 2nd time I bake muffins (I don't know if I should call them muffins or cupcake, so same la...) and I must say they look much better than the 1st batch! Why? Because I did not use any muffin cups or tray since I did not have any so the cakes were a little bit out of shape. So, today I went to Jusco and bought some jelly moulds. The moulds are made of aluminium, so they can be used for baking. Who says jelly moulds must be used to make jelly only??

These are the muffins which I baked with Carmen after we had the macaroni dinner :)

They turned out lovely and we had such great satisfaction just looking at them during the baking process. The recipe is the same as the one which I used for blueberries cupcake only this time I used cranberries and I remembered to put vanilla essence!

Well, I did not eat any since I am now determined to shed some kilos and lower my cholesterol level. So, Carmen brought back some to impress her hubby (She said he would most probably think she bought them from night market or bakery. Hahaha...) and I gave some to my nurse friend who stays nearby.

Overall, we had a great time baking and planning to do this more often!

Blueberry Cupcakes

This is my first attempt in baking cupcakes and thankfully they turned out to be yummy and nice. It’s definitely not my recipe since I am just learning how to bake now. This easy-to-do and lovely recipe if from Peony. I ‘found’ her blog while searching for a chicken pie recipe and have been a fan of her blog ever since.

For this recipe, I just replaced the cranberries with blueberries and omitted the orange oil as I thought blueberries might not go well with something orangy ;p Haha…
I had wanted to put in vanilla essence instead, but being the forgetful one, I totally forgot about it until I put the mixture into the cups for baking and thought “how come the vanilla essence is still unopened??”

I never knew we can use yoghurt in baking but I love yoghurt so this is a good way to experiment with what yoghurt can do. The yoghurt somehow makes me feel this is a healthy cupcake (never mind the butter and eggs ;p).

Anyway, it’s delicious and perfect for afternoon tea!

Here’s the link to the original recipe. :)

http://myculinaryjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/mini-cranberry-yogurt-loaves.html