Favorite Butter Cupcakes

I used my all-time favorite butter cake recipe again. This time, I added the butternut Loran flavoring. It is indeed flavorful. =D

Thanks to Audrey for the moulds. She bought extras mould - Canele, brioches and madelines from her France trip. Love them lots. It is very useful for me.

Atalie's 1st Birthday

The day has finally come and IT is finally out and completed. Yes, Cuen is satisfied with the work. thou there is quite a few hipcups along the way. I think IT has scored 99 marks. I'm talking about the birthday cake for my darling, Atalie. It is her 1st birthday party. I have planned over a period of 2 months on just the cake itself and made it over 3 days. It was really tiring but worth every single bit of effort.

My sketches

I want to thank Lee Lee and Ginny for helping me out on the birthday cake. Thanks so much for sharing with me your precious knowledge. And not to forget my Daddy Hubby who help to take care of Atalie while I'm busy preparing the cake.

Caihui has helped me to prepare a montage but the projector is not working. Hope to post it up on youtube or facebook for viewing.

Process of making the cake.
Day 1, I had to mould all the figurines to ensure it drys on time.

Day 2, I baked the cake and frosted it with chocolate ganache.

Top tier: 6 inch cranberry butter cake. Bottom tier: 8 inch steam moist chocolate cake.

Day 3, assembling of the cake with fondant.

The figurine was tough as the joints of the girl refuses to stick, keep coming on. If you notice closely, as the end of the day, the girl has got no more nose. It dropped off and I'm too tiring to doing anything about it. The sugar paste recipe calls for gelatine foil but I couldn't get it then, hence I replace with gelatine powder. The effect turn out bad, as I was rolling the fondant, I could see the un-dissolve gelatin still there. It was somehow patchy. As my based fondant is white, I had to be very careful as I've used chocolate ganache.

This is the finished and final product.

Mixed fruits Butter Cupcakes

Updated with recipes. Almost forgot about it.

Week after week, my schedules are very packed! From weekdays to weekends, with lotsa things and agenda going on. Last Sunday, we have the leaders' thanksgiving party at Regency House, followed by thanksgiving service. In between Saturday and Sunday, I gotta prepare desserts for the party and cupcakes as Xmas gifts for colleagues and friends. Thank God for the capacity and wisdom to manage everything.

I modified my buttercake recipe slightly and add in mixed fruits and baked them into small cupcakes. The cupcakes are dense yet soft and moist. The mixed fruits goes very well with it. I decorated them with some fondant.and packed them into the decorated containers.

 

 

Makes 30 small cupcakes (Base diameter is abt 4cm)

Mixed fruits Butter Cupcakes

250g butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
180g caster sugar
4 eggs
335g self-raising flour
90ml milk
60ml whipping cream
250g dried mixed fruits

1. Preheat oven to 170 degree.Prepare the cupcake liners.
2. Beat butter, vanilla extract and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Beat in egg one at a time
4. Sift the flour for 2 times. Mix in the flour and milk alternately in 2 batches.
5. Fold in the mixed fruits. And fill the liners with batter till about 3/4 full.
6. Bake in the preheated oven 170 degree for about 15-20mins.

Marble Butter Cake (Lee Lee)

I tried out this recipe from Baking Mum. I could have over baked slightly, it turn out to be slightly dry.

Ingredients

250g butter, room temperature
200g caster sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
300g self-raising flour (sifted)
½ to 3/4 cup of evaporated milk

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line and grease an 8" round cake tin.
2. Beat the butter with the caster sugar until pale and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add in vanilla essence and evaporated milk and mix well.
3. Lastly fold in sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well. Pour into the prepare cake tin and bake for about an hour.
(I add some cocoa powder for the marble effect.)

(Marbled) Cuen's Butter Cake

After baking quite a few butter cake recipe, this is the version that I came up with. I shall call it Cuen's butter cake. This is soft, moist and rich but not oily. Shall not keep you waiting. You can Marbled it or just keep it plain. Don't have my camera with me now, will post the pic later.

(Marbled) Butter Cake

250g butter (I used SCS creamy butter)
1 tsp vanilla extract
180g caster sugar
3 eggs + 1 egg yolk
335g self-raising flour
130ml milk
50ml evaporated milk

Marbled effect
Pink food colouring
2tbsp cocoa powder + 2tbsp hot milk

1. Preheat oven to 160 degree. Grease 22cm-round tin, line with baking paper.
2. Beat butter , vanilla extract and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Beat in egg one at a time, last followed by the yolk.
4. Sift the flour for 2 times. Mix in the flour and milk alternately in 2 batches.
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5. Divide batter into 3 batches. Tint one with pink and the other with the cocoa mixture. (for marbled effect)
6. Pour in to the tin and bake for about 60mins. Stand for 5 mins and overturn onto wire rack to cool.

Ps: As I am typing this out, I realise I could have try to use HK flour to achieve a finer texture. Shall try it out now and update later. =)

Basic Butter Cake

I got them from Xinying. She attended some baking classes and generously offered to share them with me. =D So thankful to her. But I am not able to share the recipe here, thou I have tweaked them slightly. You can ask me for my version if you want ya.

This butter cake is very nice, I just give "phoon huat" butter but the cake is already with very rich buttery aroma. The taste was just nice, soft and not too dense either. Thumbs up.