Dirty, Filthy, Non Practise Cakes

In my last post I wrote about the Cadbury Cream Egg cupcakes that I was planning to make.  Now I've made them, and eaten one (un-iced) and I think I want to die.  Without question they are one of the best and worst things I've ever made in my life and I am never, ever going to eat one ever again.  I am going to put one in the freezer for the very tolerant housemate, who gave up chocolate for lent, and has been looking like a kicked puppy since I started talking about making these.

To make these I froze 12 Cadbury Cream Eggs.  Then I made up the cake batter from The Hummingbird Bakery recipe.  I poured about half the usual quantity into the bottom of the cupcake cases.  Then I rested the frozen eggs upright in the batter and pushed them down well.



Unlike the picture I posted last time, my eggs did not uniformly stand up during the cooking and about half of them fell over.  The batter rose around the eggs however and the cakes came out of the oven looking fairly normal, but weighing twice as much as normal cakes should.

I am going to ice them tomorrow, but I had one after dinner.

 
It's a shocking picture.  It was an awful, awful thing to do to a cake.

I definitely have to run 5k tomorrow.  And I am never, ever doing this ever again.  No matter how good it tasted.

Practise Cakes

I've not made anything for a while, I've been manically busy with work, friends and being mean to the boys I've been dating.  Mainly work though.  I have a limit on how mean I can be before I start feeling bad about it.

I've been working on a couple of other projects recently, not cake related, hopefully I'll be able to write them up when they're finished soon.  However, in my travels round the Internet I stumbled across these beauties.  I do adore pinterest, it's my new guilty pleasure.

I'm not sure if they're a work of genius, the product of a disturbed mind or just a short cut to type two diabetes.

Anyway, I am going to make them for work.  As an Easter present.  Who doesn't want sugar poisoning for Easter?

Given my complete and utter fail at baking recently, I figured I should probably road test a chocolate cupcake recipe before starting in on these.  Otherwise it could be a very expensive cake mistake.

So I knocked up some Hummingbird Bakery chocolate cupcakes.

80g butter
280g caster sugar
200g plain flour
40g coco
1tbsp baking powder (yes really that much)
1/4 tsp salt
240ml whole milk
2 large eggs.

Beat the butter, sugar, flour, coco, baking powder and salt together until they are a sand like consistency.  Mix the milk and eggs together and combine to form the batter.  Bake for 18-20 minutes at 190 degrees.  I made 14 cakes from this mix.

FROSTING
400g icing sugar
100g coco
160g butter
50ml whole milk

Whisk together to make the icing, then pipe onto the cakes and decorate.

Do you know, I think I might actually have my baking mojo back.  They taste delicious and although the icing might not quite be up to my little sister's standard, it's still a hell of a lot better than the horror that was the liquid mess of the red velvet cakes.