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FRENCH CUPCAKES WITH VANILLA BUTTER CREAM FROSTING

Timing: 45-50 min.

Portions: about 15 cupcakes

Cupcakes:

• 100 gr butter

• 4 eggs, separated

• 150 gr (2/3 cup) of sugar

• 3 spoons of coconut flour

• 250 ml of milk

• 200 gr (1 ½ cup) of flour

• 2 teaspoons of baking powder

• few drops of vanilla extract

Buttercream frosting:

• 220 gr butter

• 10-15 gr of vanilla sugar

• 3-4 cups of sugar powder (sifted)

• 2 spoons of milk

• some almond extract

• full almonds

1. Whisk melted butter together with sugar and egg yolks in a main bowl. Combine flour with coconut flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and, step by step, add to a main bowl together with a milk. In a separate bowl finally whisk egg whites. Carefully mix in egg whites and vanilla extract. Pour dough into baking cups. Bake in 180 temperature for about 30-35 minutes.

2. When cupcakes are ready, cool them on a wire and prepare the butter-cream: whisk butter (it should be as soft as gelato) with sifted sugar powder, some milk, few drops of almond extract and vanilla sugar. When the cream is smooth, pour it into an icing bag. Use icing bag to decorate cupcakes with a cream and then stick in an almond. Enjoy!

 

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When it is cold outside (well, in Vilnius we are going to get -19C this weekend and even more the next one ) you better stay at home. And when you stay at home, go to the klitchen and make something nice to yourself.

Tasty Art  for this Friday suggests to try out this moist, rich, heart melting torta di cioccolato with Nutella glaze and coconuts. Easy to make, easy to surprise and please your friends or family.

 

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH NUTELLA

 

Time: 60 minutes
Portions: 12

What’s Required:
• 100 g cioccolato nero (72-74 proc.)
• 100 g cioccolato latte
• 50 g cioccolato nero (74-80 proc.)
• 200 g of natural butter
• 7 spoons of cacao powder
• 7 spoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 5 medium eggs
• 1 spoon of arancia (orange) syrup
• 1 peeled zest of orange
• 1 1/2 cup of panna (cream)
• 3-4 spoons of hot water
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• “Nutella” and coconut dust (optional)

 

 Melt chocolate together with the butter on a low heat, simmering. Add cacao, sugar, vanilla and mix everything. Beat in eggs and use electric mixer to combine everything together until smooth. Pour panna, add syrup and orange peel, mix.

Combine flour with baking powder and add. Pour this mix into a greased baking form for a cake and bake in 180 temperature for about 45 minutes.

Remove, let stay cool for a while. Spread on “Nutella” and sprinkle some coconut, if desired. Enjoy and don’t forget to exercise another morning to burn the whole bunch of calories you will definitely get from this cake :)

 

Have a sweet weekend!

 

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Monday is not our favourite day, is it? We cannot escape it, but we can make it easier. Why not make it sweeter? It always works.

Today our guest blogger Brigita from Tasty Art is sharing a wonderful cacao muffins recipe.

 

CACAO MUFFINS WITH NUTS

 

Timing: 45 min

Portions: 12

 

Ingredients:

• 80 g butter

• 4 eggs

• 1 cup of brown sugar

• pinch of cinnamon

• cup of kefir

• about 1/2 cup of cacao

• handful of walnuts

• handful of cashew nuts

• 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

• circa 2 1/2 cups of flour

• confectionery sugar

 

How we make it:

1. Melt butter in a saucepan on a low heat. Remove from the heat and combine with sugar, mix it until sugar melts completely. Later beat in eggs and use electric mixer to blend dough. Then little by little add kefir, cacao and pinch of cinnamon.

2. Mix one cup of flour with baking powder and add to the dough. Continue mixing dough and adding more flour, until the dough will be smooth as sour cream. Later bring nuts into the dough and combine everything well. Pour into special muffins pan and bake in regular baking heat (that’s 180C according to me :) for about 30 minutes (it also depends on your oven). Finally sprinkle muffins with some confectionery sugar.

 

And now… share it with your friends and lovers or eat all the muffins alone!

 

 

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