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Fresh strawberries cupcakes

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Strawberries are one of my favourite fruits and I love it when they are in season. There are just so many things you can do with strawberries and they make good “accessories” for food styling too. I’ve never been a fan of frosting; partly because I find it too sweet and also messy when it comes to using the piping bag. However, my latest obsession is whipping cream. It’s light and easy to work with and the best thing is that it doesn’t make the cake feel as heavy and sinful compared to buttercream. Since strawberries are on sale at the supermarkets this week, I’ve decided to make fresh strawberries cupcake. Instead of making a plain vanilla cupcake with fresh strawberries, I added lemon zest for an extra flavour. Everyone loved the cupcakes and they looked so pretty with the whipped cream frosting. Hope that you’ll enjoy it as much as we did! Nutrition per cupcake Ingredients for the cupcake 200g self-raising flour 120g unsalted butter (room temperature) 100g caster sugar 2 eggs 150ml buttermilk …

Coconut cream cake

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My latest obsession is making layered cake – it just looks so fancy with the cream and frosting. Since tonight I’ll be having a thai dinner party at my place, I decided to make a coconut cream cake. This cake is simple to make, just that there are quite a number of steps involved and lots of washing. The cake tastes amazing which makes everything worthwhile! There are three major steps in making this cake. First, the cake of course. Second, the syrup that drizzles over the cake. Last of all, the cream that goes around the cake. I used two 7″ round cake tins for the cake because I’m bad at dividing the cake into two. Nutrition per slice (One cake serves 10) Ingredients for the cake 150g unsalted butter (room temperature) 150g caster sugar 330g self raising flour 4 eggs 270ml coconut milk (1 can of coconut milk) 1 tsp vanilla essence Ingredients for the syrup 50ml coconut milk 50ml water 40g caster sugar Ingredients for the frosting 300ml whipping cream 50g caster …

M&M peanut butter cookies

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Peanut butter is my kryptonite. I usually ban myself from buying peanut butter because I eat it straight from the jar with a spoon – disgusting I know. The only time I allow myself to buy peanut butter is when I need it for my baking. This recipe is a slight adaptation from my peanut butter cookie recipe. I added M&M peanut for an extra “umph”! Making peanut butter cookies are slightly trickier than the other cookies. The cookie dough tends to be drier and harder to roll. I prefer to wait for the cookie dough to soften till room temperature before rolling it out. Remember not to over bake the cookies or it would turn out too dry. So take the cookies out from the oven when they are slightly soft and let it cool. The cookies will harden when cooling. Nutrition per cookie Ingredients for the cookie 100g unsalted butter (room temperature) 200g peanut butter ( I used kraft peanut butter) 60g brown sugar 60g caster sugar 220g plain flour 1 egg 1 …

Fudgy chocolate brownie

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Brownies are one of my favourite desserts to make. Firstly, they are great for any occasions. Secondly, they make great tray bakes; cut them up into bite size pieces and they would be gone in no time. Lastly, they are easy to make – it’s almost foolproof and they taste delicious. I adapted this recipe from BBC good food and one thing I like about it is that it does not require the use of the standing mixer. All you need is an electric hand whisk. As much as I love my Kitchen Aid but it’s so heavy and I’m lazy to clean the equipment after use so this recipe works perfectly for me. This recipe is slightly different from the other brownie recipes that I’ve posted. It requires the separation of the egg whites from the yolks. When I was melting the chocolate butter and sugar, the mixture looked a little grainy and I was freaking out a little because I thought that I tempered my chocolate wrongly. But do not lose faith, after …