Over the weekend, my sis, qiqi and I baked cupcakes (again) to celebrate xiaoyu's 1st birthday :) The recipe was taken from Children's First CookBook by Annabel Karmel.
Making cupcakes...
First heat the oven to 180°C or 350°F. Then prepare the following.
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 125 g sugar
- 125 g butter
- 125 g raising flour
- chocolate chips
From previous experience, the cupcakes were too sweet and greasy. So we tweaked the formula a little - reducing both sugar and butter - to suit our taste preferences. (experiment with the right amounts for yourself!)
Mix all the ingredients together!
Add in some flavor! We threw in some chocolate chips, but raisins or blueberries would work too.
Lay out paper cones onto the tray and fill each cone to 1/2 or 2/3 the capacity. Put in the oven! Bake for 18 to 20 mins. (watch out for the color yourself!)Meanwhile, prepare icing...
- 25o g icing sugar
- 125 g butter
- 1 tsp water
- coloring
Baking for kids is simple. Just mix everything up and add any coloring you would like! We had green and pink. Then put the icing in a corner of a small plastic bag. Cut off a tiny corner.
Ohh the cupcakes are almost ready!
Remove the cupcakes from the tray and leave out to cool down. (IMPT or your deco will melt!)
Making our second batch of cupcakes.
Ta-da! We wrote HAPPY 1st BDAY XIAOYU! on the cupcakes!Next morning on webcam...
Opps, qiqi already started feasting on the cupcakes!
So good to see her again, she has grown so much and very talkative now! (keeps saying "da-da-da") I miss carrying and napping with her :)
Singing a birthday song for xiaoyu... Wah she was all ready to cut her cake!
Ok, no more talking. Just eat ;)
Not bad at the start, it really has the 麻辣 ("numbing spicy") taste to it!
And look at all the ingredients we have! All included in the buffet. Approx. $38 per person, comes with desserts (eg. sticky rice cake, water chestnut jelly, ice-cream) and some special snacks (eg. spring roll, dumplings, 1-slice abalone and salmon)!
