Showing posts with label icing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label icing. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Chocolate Glazed icing cake

Chocolate Glazed icing cake


Ingredients for sponge cake
  • Eggs 4
  • Flour 4 ounce
  • Caster sugar 4 ounce
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Method
  • Beat eggs, gradually add in sugar until light and fluffy, add essence, sieve together flour and baking powder, carefully fold in the sieved flour, pour in a greased 8 inch round tin, bake on 180 degree C for 25 minutes, remove, cool.
Ingredients for glazed icing
  • Icing sugar 8 ounces
  • Coco powder 2 tbsp
  • Water 3 tbsp
  • Any color required
  • Butter 1 tbsp
Method for glazed icing
  • Mix all together icing sugar, coco powder and water in a pan and cook stirring for 1 minute, remove add color of your choice, pour on top of the cake till the side and top of the cake cover completely. Take a chocolate glazed icing in a fine nozzle make circular pattern starting from the centre using a toothpick make line on it, starting from the edge of the cake and ending in the centre, lastly pipe butter cream, flowers on the edge of the cake.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes with Coffee Icing

Gluten free chocolate cupcake recipe with coffee flavored icing
Gluten-free chocolate cupcakes.

Gluten-free cupcakes are hot. Or should I say, HAWT. Tack on vegan status, too, and you've got a trend worthy of the most BoHo WeHo GoGo. So I'm reprising this chocolate cupcake recipe to tempt you into baking this weekend. These little beauties remind me of Devil's Food Cake. Dark, moist and chocolatey. So go grab your inner Domestic Goddess by the hand and stir up some trouble.

But before we get to (what happens to be my favorite) chocolate cupcake recipe from the archives, I want to share something. Maybe it's the waxing moon, that cyclic siren pulling us toward wholeness, to embracing our shadow, urging us to let go, shed the outworn for the sake of authenticity. Or maybe it's the fresh start of a new school year, possessing me with cravings for newly sharpened pencils and thick stacks of paper, clean as a cloud. Fall always wakes me up. It conjures images of new beginnings.

And yes, there will be baby pictures.



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