Halloween Treats & Tricks

Dearest Cupcake Lovers
Really got into the "spirit" of the evening today and made a delish batch of vanilla buttercream cupcakes a la spookiness!!
Enjoy your spooky treats tonite!
Chat soon
Cupcke Witch (for tonite only!)

Long Time, No Cake

Dear Cupcake Lovers
Well, the Bake sale was a success ! I made - in the end- the Bananadramas, brownies and a big vanilla bundt! I have posted a pic of a bananadrama all wrapped up Halloween-ish for the sale.
This week my fairy helpers & I divulged in a little donut therapy. Had a great time making the dough, rolling, cutting it out, frying them etc. The girls liked the cinnamon sugar ones in particular, whereas I liked the "holes" with icing sugar. Mmmmm....we also used the new TollHouse Swirls morsels in choc & caramel, melted them in the microwave and dunked the donuts in. V delish!
Fairy Betty is flapping her wings over the pond to visit the Cafe soon, so she will be updating you on all the yummy cakes we will bake together!
Chat soon
Cake Fairy xx

Banana-Dramas

Dear Cupcake lovers

Actually no drama as the title would suggest, I made these today for the bake sale and they are delish! Make them now!

Banana-Dramas

1 cup whole wheat flour
2 cups all-purpose
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 cups light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup veg oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 ripe bananas

Preheat oven to 325 F. Use cupcake liners or grease your muffin pans. (I use PAM with flour).
Makes 22-ish.

In a bowl beat eggs, sugar, oil & vanilla together.
In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients together.
In yet another bowl mash the bananas.
Mix everything together until all the flour is incorporated.
Fill liners/tins 3/4s way full. Bake 25 mins or until tester comes out clean.
Let cool before frosting. Freeze immediatley when cooled (if desired) in an airtight zippy-bag.

Yummy frosting
4oz butter at room temp
4oz soft cream cheese at room temp
8oz confectioners sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Mix altogther and spread generously on bananadramas. Enjoy!!

School Bake Sale - (not for the faint-hearted).

Dear cupcake lovers

In an attempt to get my cupcake business known about town, and become the one baker everybody talks about and would kill for her cakes, next saturday I will be donating a few dozen cakes in my favorite recipes to my daughters' annual school bake sale. Easy you say? Oh no no no! One dozen vanilla, one dozen choc, one dozen lemon, one dozen coconut, one dozen peanut butter. All INDIVIDUALLY wrapped. So as it is for "Fall Fun Day" they're all going to have orange icing and purple sprinkles. So there.

Send sympathy wishes to ......

Chat soon

Cake Fairy xx

How old is that cake?

Dear cupcake lovers

Again, my good friend Fairy Betty stumps me with a q that requires a little research. Well, Fairy Betty, the Oxford English Dictionary people can trace the word "cake" back to the 13th Century, where it was derived from the Norse (vikings etc) word "kaka". No-one really knows who baked the first cake, but it was probably someone in Europe mixing yeast, flour, sugar & eggs to make a biscuity-cakey type of food. Cakes became very popular in the Victorian/Georgian era (hence Victoria Spongs after Queen Victoria) and afternoon tea became the thing to do amongst high society ladies to chat & gossip over. Cup of tea and a slice of cake. Which is why we all love a slab of cake (or a cupcake) in the afternoon!

As for my baking, I am a little behind schedule, but plan to do the peanut butter ones this week and maybe the coconut cupcakes too. Pictures will follow with recipes.

Hope this history lesson helped!

Chat soon

Cake Fairy xx

Lemon Cakes

So here are the lemon cakes I told you about...mmmm.....if you want to bake them, use the Fairy Cake recipe already posted, and add 2 tsp lemon flavoring plus 1 tsp lemon juice to the batter, then add 1 or 2 tsp lemon juice to buttercream icing. Woohoo!

Banana Cake

I shall make a banana cake in honor of my mate Fairy Betty. Here's to another 90 years!!!!!! (We will be very old and wobbly!)

Cake Fairy xx