Breast Cancer Inspired Cupcakes

Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

It was a boring Saturday evening and nothing to do. My husband is keep on asking me what's my next cupcake adventure. I was browsing the Internet to get some ideas. I saw one Breast Cancer Inspired Cupcake and wanted to try some as well.

I used Billy Reece Vanilla Cupcake recipe and just added pink food coloring.

My piping skill is not that good yet but I'm getting there :)

Iya's Very Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

These cupcakes is for Clark. My 4 year old godson here in Dubai. His themed party was Barney..his all time favorite. His grandma Mommy Luz told me to make Purple, Green and Yellow Cupcake. I made a mix of Chocolate Cupcake and Vanilla Cupcake. The Purple ones are the Vanilla Cupcake

Before I was using the Billy Reece Recipe but I just made some magic of the ingredients to make it soft and fluffy. I used WILTON BUTTERCREAM as my icing.




Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups Cake Flour
1 1/4 cups All Purpose Flour
2 cups White Sugar
1 tablespoon Baking Powder
pinch of salt
1 Cup unsalted butter
4 large whole eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Direction:

1. Preheat oven into 180 C
2. Cream the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time.
3. Mix the dry ingredients such as flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a separate bowl.
4. Combine the dry ingredients with the batter mixture. Add the vanilla and mix well.
5. Pour the batter into the cupcake liner until 3/4 full.
6. Bake for 20 minutes.

The young ones enjoyed it..

And even the not so young ones...

Amazing Race in Singapore

These are some photos me and my sisiter had during our day visit to Singapore in December 2008 on our way to Philippines. We reached Singapore at 7: 30 am and we straight away head to Grand Hyatt Singapore to refresh and leave our bags. We used the hop on hop off bus of Singapore Airlines to explore the city I've been here in 2007 already and still remembered the place so we did not had hard time exploring the city. We finished at 4:10 pm picked our bags at the hotel and change our clothes. We managed to reached the airport at exactly 4:50 pm and ran in the airport to reached the terminal 1 since the driver dropped us at terminal 2. After the looonnggg run, Shuttle Train and another long run we made it to the boarding area wherein we are the only one missing. They cannot leave without us since we already pre checked in our stuff. That's a long day for both of us :) The Best memory we had as sisters.

Black Bottom Cupcakes

Hasan, my colleague and a dear friend of mine was asking me what's next on my cupcake adventure. He showed me a website of Joy of Baking wherein I can find different kinds of cupcake. I chose the black bottom cupcake since I have already most of their ingredients.
The following day I shared it to all my colleagues in HR and got a lot of positive feedback.

I experimented a little bit and added some chocolate chip to the cream cheese mixture.

Ingredients:

Cream Cheese

12 oz cream cheese
1 large egg
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 pack of chocolate chips (mini kisses)

Cupcake:

3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2/3 cups dutch process unsweetened cocoa
1 cup water
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
2/3 cups vegetable/canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt

Direction:

Cream Cheese:
1. Beat the cream cheese until soft and add sugar
2. Add the egg and mix well
3. Spoon in the chocolate chips and set aside

Cupcake:
1. Preheat the oven at 180 C
2. Sift all the dry ingredient, Flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt
3. Add in the water, oil, vinegar and vanilla
4. Mix until well blended
5. Prepare the cupcake liner and fill in the cups until 3/4 of the mixture.
6. Spoon in on top a teaspoon of the cream cheese mixture.
7. bake for 20 minutes

You can make 30 cupcakes with this mixture. Enjoy!! :)

Hubby's Birthday present for me: KitchenAid

Hubby gave me a KitchenAid mixer for my 28th birthday. To be honest, having a normal mixer was okay for me but getting a KitchenAid makes my baking life so easy. I wanted to have a pink color mixer but unfortunately, they don't have it here in Dubai so I just decided on taking white KithchenAid.

I will start my cross training in our Pastry department at Grand Hyatt Dubai this coming Thursday, October 7, 2010. I am excited and 'lil bit nervous. It feels like going back to school.

Wish me luck! I hope I can come up with something new and delicious after my training. :)