November 18, 2007
Yesterday I baked cupcakes for which the Afrikaans word is kolwyntjies (pronouncing it like col-vane-kiss might sound close). I got a real simple recipe at cupcakerecipes.com, made the basic batter and then had fun.
I cannot recall the last time I baked cupcakes, so even though I knew it should be relatively simple I was nervous. I guess I am always a bit nervous when I am making something new.
I picked up, the day before I made the cupcakes, some blue and pink food coloring to add to my tiny collection of food color, a packet of cocoa, and a couple of candy bars. The packet of M&M’s disappeared between arriving home Friday afternoon and the time I started baking.
The recipe yielded about 30 cupcakes of varying sizes (and shapes), so I had a lot of batter to play with. I divided it into about three equal amounts and experimented from there on. Into the first batter I mixed some chocolate food coloring and scooped it into the cups, adding a bit of chocolate bar into each cup. The next batter became electric blue and was kept pretty simple. Except for two into which I scooped some peanut butter as a surprise. Into the last batter I mixed in cocoa powder and peanut butter and in a few I dropped chopped pieces from a Sneaker’s bar. Notice in the picture on the right that I finally bought a hand mixer. Loving it. Now I just need mixing bowls.
It took a while to bake all the cupcakes in our tiny oven. After they cooled I decorated them with a really simple milk and powdered sugar frosting.
The shocking pink and electric blue one’s I called queercakes, after the bunch of cupcakes my friend Christel and Alexander baked for a friend’s birthday last year which looked quite similar (you can see the peanut butter in the queercake in the first picture). The peanut butter one’s each got a cashew on top of the icing and some of them come with a yummy surprise in the center. The chocolate one’s look quite plain but they all have a candy bar surprise inside. Delightful!
- Alexander took most of the pictures in this entry. My favorite is the one of the giraffe overlooking the candy bar surprise cupcakes. -
November 20, 2007 at 10:07 am
pure marteling!
November 26, 2007 at 8:51 am
nee nee neeeeee daardie is sooo nie queercakes nie, heeltemal te net, en dit lyk boonop eetbaar, selfs lekker. die queercakes was nie een rond en het oor hul papierkoppie goetertjies geval en dit was nogal ‘n skokkende gesig of ten minste verontrustend - het twee milde nagmerries as gevolg. noudat ek daaraan dink sou die beter beskrywing seker scare cakes gewees het want ek het al baie nice queer mense ontmoet, sommiges kan ek selfs vriende noem, rerig; en daai was eintlik amper niks nice, behalwe vir die spiderman tattoos wat saam met dit in die boks gekom het, baie nice. miskien moet ek tog alexander se voorstel van ‘n blog van my eie begin opneem dan kan ons dit maak sooos hip hoppers wat stand offs het jy skryf iets - ek skryf iets OF beter nog jy maak iets - ek maak dieselfde ding dan kan dit soos ‘n guide wees van wat om NIE te doen as mens kook - rerig ek sukkel nou nog om die gru smaak van daai piesang poeding uit my mond te kry - ek het al genoem dat ek die rys in melk probeer kook het, KAK idee. (jammer tannie elize)