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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Banana Bread

Hello everyone!

Some years ago, while visiting London with my sister, I encountered the lovely Hummingbird Bakery on Portobello Road. 



I instantly fell in love with this place. The lined up cupcakes, sorted by color; the simple but elegant packaging and, of course, the amazingly good-looking cakes and sweets.



You have possibly heard about them. They have published various recipe books and the cause of this post is that my wonderful friends gave one of them to me as a birthday gift!


I obviously needed to make something. So, when browsing through its pages I found this Banana Bread recipe, I couldn't resist.


Delicious.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

A Pirate Ship Cake for Marc!

Hello everyone!

Today's recipe was an improvised one. My little cousin Marc was turning five and, not having much time and all I was thinking of making some dinosaur cookies for his party and a normal chocolate cake. But it all changed with a phone call. My uncle (Marc's daddy) was preparing a Pirate-themed party and I quickly realized that my dinosaur cookies would be very out of place. 

But then I began thinking and browsing Pinterest. I could do some pirate and starfish cookies. 

And I did them.


I'm not exactly proud of the pirate ones but I absolutely loved the starfishes. Aren't they adorable? And very easy too, I just used a normal star cookie cutter and then I modified them myself, making them more starfish-like.

However I was not satisfied. A normal cake would simply not do and I started browsing Pinterest again taking advantage of my insomnia for once. And then I found it. A Pirate Ship, of course! Here you have the pins I got my ideas from: Pirate Ship Cake and Pirate cookies.



And this was the result. I bought a couple of gummy dolphins and some chocolate coins and that's it! It was a little bit rushed and if I had had more time I would have added more details but I did the cake in one morning and it was everything I could have hoped for.

Here it is the recipe and following up, a step-by-step of the ship construction!

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Oreo Cupcakes

Hello everyone!

Today's recipe is also one of my favorites. It takes a little bit of time to do but is definitely worth it.




Oreo cupcakes!




I made those to celebrate the birthday of one of my closest friends who, get ready for this, doesn't like chocolate.

Awful. I know.

She does not like chocolate but she likes Oreo cookies and she loves my Oreo cupcakes. Maybe you have seen this recipe in other blogs and their ingredients include two tablespoons of pure cocoa. I skip this step for my friend's benefit, and although the cupcakes are dark, it's because of the pulverized cookies in the batter.




The frosting is not the usual either. Truth is that I cringe a little bit when I see recipes that require 400g of confectioner's sugar only for the frosting or buttercream. I know, they are delicious but, with so many sugar? Is that good? So I have created a new frosting for these cupcakes and, although my friends kind of missed the old one, they did say that it tasted as if it was the cream inside the Oreo cookies.