IM BAAAAAAAACK!

Ok, so been in hiatus for a while...
UNIVERISTY LIFE! That's right everyone, I have been so busy, busy, busy with school work.
(sorry for the very low quality picture!)

So much so that on Friday I was able to whip up a batch of cupcakes and a mini cake for friends who were having their birthday.

How I forgot that baking makes me stress less!..

So here are the creations. I made a simple vanilla cupcake using the very reliable recipe from Joy Of Baking. Instead of using usual milk, I decided to use coconut milk. It add a nice (and not too overpowering) element and kept the cupcake very dense.

For the icing I mixed Solite Cream which is lactose and egg free. Very handy for those with allergies!
So, the trick not to get that "fake" taste from the cream is to use a lot of icing sugar (I didn't say it was low sugar now!). For the pink cupcakes I used a Queens red food colouring and some lemon.
The chocolate icing was just melted milk chocolate whipped with butter to help it smooth and shiny.

Decorate, and voila! A present that is tasty.

Just a tip, fill the cases just little than 3/4 full in the patty papers to get a flatter top cake... or do what I did and trim the tops...You get to taste the cake.. and "help" its aesthetic!

Little Chocolate Somethings.

"Little cuppycakes for a new Baby in the family."

I am an aunt again! My second brother Matt and his wife said HELLO to they latest child (Name unknown).

So I, in haste made mini cupcakes for the family. Baking on so many levels is definitely a "Good thing" to take a note from the Martha Book. People who know me know I like things mini. It's just cuter to eat/decorate/look at the novelty of something delicate and cute. Give me bite-sized any day from Texas Muffin-size. These are just classic vanilla cuppycakes with a chocolate icing. I actually made pink lemon icing for the ones I gifted, but since I was in an insane rush I didn't get time to take any pictures. 

On another point, I am turning 20 very soon! (I don't necessarily think that needed an exclamation, but it seems fit to be excited about it right?) Birthdays... they puzzle me. In theory the thought of it supersedes the event itself. Maybe if I weren't such a control freak then I would be able to let someone else plan my birthday. I mean I want to bake my birthday cake, cater and plan. WEIRD?! Yes! I agree. I have more fun planning the event I think. Make-up. It gives me headaches. Getting ready is fun, but stripping it all off at the end of the night in all tiredness (avert your thoughts perverts if you want sex you got the wrong girl...) This is the point where my sister sighs and tells me I am in the wrong industry. *Cue laughter reel*

So happy birthday to me. Send the presents my way. 

Please.