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Showing posts with label Sugar high. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sugar high. Show all posts
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Up until 4 hours back, I was even consciously aware of the presence of the red velvet cake/cup cake in the world. Like any other Saturday afternoon, I was fiddling with the laptop and came across this video about 'Re inventing the cupcake', based on this nice female with a 'cupcakery' in New York. Needless to say, the moment I laid my eyes on the gorgeous cupcake she was baking, I knew I had to try it.
Like a tune which is playing in your head on loop the entire day, the image of the cupcake was flashing before my eyes every few seconds. Scanning through the recipe, I realized I could actually pull it off before the sun sets, and before my family wakes up from their 'Saturday - post lunch - fish curry and rice' slumber.
Terribly sorry for the ones who don't stay nearby and can't come over, and bite into the awesomeness this is. The red colored cupcake is a delight to look at, the subtle taste of dark cocoa which hits you at the very first bite, is very gratifying ;and the huge blob of chocolate frosting on the top is just plain sinful.
Look how red!
*drool* chocolate.
So, yes. That. :)
P.S- I mean. Seriously. These things are a pain to carry out of the house with the roads that we have. The frosting gets absolutely ruined. So I mean, call. And come over won't you? And stop threatening me!
Yes, Samata, I mean you. :P
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Vanilla Cupcakes with Butter Cream Frosting
A wise lady once said, "When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile."
And every time I open my fridge, 'smiling' is the most polite version of what is smeared on my face!
You see those gorgeous things sitting on the counters, jumping out of magazines, staring at you out of the professionally clicked photographs on other food blogs, and you can't help but hate yourself a little bit for not having one in your hand. And the worst of the lot are, the mini cupcakes which inhibit Candies. Little rascals, all of them.
So after donning the hat of improvisation, I decided to bake a few cupcakes myself. Vanilla cupcakes are swell, and the butter cream frosting is heavenly. Thankfully, I had some coloring left over from the cutout cookies ("Raspberry Red" to be precise), so i could end up with a very pink set of cupcakes :P
Oh, and the frosting! Swirling the frosting around with my awesome new nozzle, is just a hoot I tells you.
And, yes, you. A batch shall be on their way to your tummy very soon. You know who you are.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
I can bake my cake, and eat it too.
After a much required inspiring baking move by Mayuresh, I decided to stop worrying and take the plunge already.
I was scared, skeptical, and tired of sieving icing sugar for a better part of the 2 hours, but at the end of it, I emerged alive with a double layer chocolate cake in my hands.
The first part was bliss. Just mixing the butter, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract, eggs and yes, flour! Easy Peasy! Just plug in the beater and go.
And this is where the batter eating started.
After I had tucked in the batter in the oven, it was time to melt the glorious dark chocolate.
And boy, did it melt. Awesomeness re-defined.
This was the "has the chocolate mix cooled down yet" tasting session every 5 min.
The few most torturous minutes of my life where when my cake was cooling on the cooling rack, while i could smell the other one in the oven.
And if that was bad enough, the horrible, taxing job of sieving the icing sugar arrived. I'm telling you, it is the ideal punishment for an irritating kid, or well, whoever you want to punish.
Oh well, dumped all that in the melted dark chocolate with the cream and vanilla.
After putting on a very brave fight, all that milky white had to finally give into the chocolate.
So all there was left for me to do, was apply icing on my cakes, and let it set for a while.
And finally, finito :)
Did I hog on it? No, not yet. My parents and nani did instead.
Am I happy? Yes, very much. I now understand the kind of happiness my mum experiences when she realizes she's brought me up right. The amount of effort and love she put in, finally paid of and give birth to a beautiful thing.
For me, that beautiful thing is my cake. (Yes, I am aware I sound like a total retard at this point of time, but look! Cake! It is no longer a lie! )
And now, I can sleep with a smile on my face.
Why you ask?
It's because I finally know that I can bake my cake and eat it too. :)
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts maybe?
Life has become quite hectic since I decided to slack off at my internship, instead of slacking off at home.
I barely get time to do the things I wanted to, this break. But I try to squeeze in the sweeter things in life, from time to time. Plus, I had to do full justice to the cookie cutters I had bought along with the muffin tray. So I couldn't really keep them waiting.
I think this was the first time that my entire baking process took much longer than an hour. And the procedure was a little phoren to me, but it was a bit too much fun. After I'd rolled out the dough, and it was time to cut out the shapes; I'd laid out the different star, heart, leaf shaped cutters and invited both my nani and mum to help me out. Both behaved like kids I tell you! Incredible it was :)
And then, there was the icing. It was so messy and delicious, you just have got to try it.
I still have green and red stains on my fingers; and I've got to admit, 5 hours later, I am still a *tiny* bit hopped up on icing sugar :P
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Chocolate Chip Muffin
It was a pleasant eventful trip to Kolkata. Met some amazing people, saw some breathtaking sights, heard some wonderful stories.
But to be very honest, through out the 7 days, I was utterly miserable on the inside.
I mean, I did my part. I didn't showcase my utter frustration and sadness; instead I smiled around, gave away hugs and touched at least a thousand feet. But really, I was slowly breaking inside.
You see, I've been searching for muffin trays in Bombay for over a year. Ok, now I admit, I never had the time to go out on a full fledged hunt, but I used to do as much as I could. And that search would inevitably always end in the same away, in total and utter failure.
That was the case up until the night before I boarded the flight to Kolkata. Samata, very nonchalantly, mentioned how she got her muffin moulds from this store in IC Colony and how she was dying to buy their new silicon muffin trays.
I mean. WHAT THE HELL?!
I had to wait 7 days and 17 hours till I could hop into the rickshaw, and reach bakers heaven. I went, I saw, and I shopped.
So as expected, after a year long wait, I finally baked my chocolate chip muffins. And boy, were they delicious :)
I have launched into baking overdrive.
The next time you see me, I will, in all probabilities, be at least 5 kilos heavier. So yes, you have been warned.
That is unless, someone wants to drop by and help me clear ingest these treats? :P
Monday, June 07, 2010
The Peach Melba
After long, there has been a first.
It's been ages since I've tried making a new treat. True that I've been having cooking pangs at all the wrong times. The first one re surfacing 2 weeks before my vivas; but surely I couldn't succumb to them before the 19th of June at the risk of adding a viva or a theory KT into the basket.
But a surprising visit of 2 peaches at home, and a long forgotten recipe couldn't help but encourage me to whip it up.
So lo' and behold - The Peach Melba - Ridiculously simple to make, and absolutely gorgeous to eat. Even minus the raspberry/ strawberry sauce.
Does that look glorious, or does it look glorious?
*sigh*
And the final result of the peaches, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Yes, I devoured it. And loved it.
And no, I do not care if I become fat.
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