Bake Me a Cake

Melting The Chocolate

The Icing

Chocolate on Top

All Finished

The Inside

Plated

300g Dark Chocolate Chopped

250g Butter

5 Eggs 

1/2 Cup Caster Sugar

1 1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder

3/4 almond meal 

Prehead the oven 150 % 

Moist Chocolate Cake:

1. Melt Butter & Chocolate in Saucepan over low heat and stir til melted and smooth. Set aside.

2. Beat eggs and sugar in the bowl with a mixer for 8-10 minutes until pale and thick. 

3. Sift flour and baking powder over egg and sugar mix and gently fold through with almond meal and chocolate mix. 

4. Line a 23cm tin round tin and bake for 50 mins until cooked. Test with a skewer, 

Butter Cream Frosting: 

250g Butter

1 cup Sifted Icing Suger

1 Teaspoon vanilla essence 

Beat butter until light and creamy. Add the sifted icing sugar and the vanilla essence and beat until well combined. Spread over completely cooled cake and refrigerate. 

Stripe melted chocolate over cake with a teaspoon (your bench will get covered). Approx 10 melted chocolate buttons. 

Cake will keep for about a week :) 

Enjoy your nomming! 

Miss Addict! 

100 & 1000's Cupcakes

100's and 1000's Cupcakes

This weekend I decided to try out my new mixing bowl, piping bag and measuring cups that I got for my birthday. I decided on cupcakes since my lot  the halloween cupcakes turned out amazingly... This time wasn't such a success sadly... 

Pink Cupcake Batter

I did actually colour both the cupcakes themselves and the icing pink and try and marble the cupcakes. The marbling was pretty much only visible when they came out of the oven...

Cupcake with Marble effect

The icing went way to runny to pipe so I have yet to try out all the fun tips on my piping bag. Still they taste delicious and with a bunch of 100's and 1000's on top they look like they belong at a kids party which suits me just fine :) but I think I may love pyrex a little more than is natural... 

How bout you lovely people? Baked anything delish lately?  

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween Cupcake with Chocolate Spiderweb

So I attempted baking again, this happens every 6 months or so with varying results. It is usually for an event of some sort like a birthday or a party. This time it was for a halloween party. I had so much fun making the spider webs for these! 

Chocolate Cupcakes with Orange Coloured vanilla icing and Chocolate Spider web decorations. 

The cupcakes are from packet mix, the icing is your standard Butter, Icing Mix and Milk affair. The spider webs however took some doing (but were no where near as hard as I thought!)

I used this template which I found via Amazing Moms Blog and followed her instructions. I did use dark chocolate rather than white and I piped my icing on using a star tip. There are a lot of amazing tutorials on youtube on how to pipe icing I discovered and its no where near as hard as it looks! 

Couple of things, it pipes better once is a bit cooler (e.i not burning your fingers hot and running out the end of the bag) Perfect spiderwebs are not a requirement in fact they look better once dry a little blobby as seem above! 

But once completed taste awesome! Baked anything cool/yummy/fun lately lovelies? 

Love and Obsessions 

Miss Addict