Baileys White Core Cupcakes...Fiesta Style Y'all!

WARNING! This recipe contains decadence and alcohol. If you are bellow 18 then call your parents, show them this blog and let them have fun with adult cooking while you sleep.

Ok now that the disclaimer is out of the way....Hey! I know it's been a while since I last post a recipe in here but that was mainly because I did not have a life outside the lab or my books for a long time. Plus I hit the gym.
I saw a weird dream last night.
I was abducted by Glenn Danzig and he locked me up in his castle.
Then I woke up and decided to make cupcakes.
But not any kind of cupcakes. These should be the 8th sin. The have coco, white chocolate AND a healthy dose of Bailey's all covered with buttermilk frosting. This heart attack has been sorely my inspiration and I deserve a Nobel prize. Mainly because tomorrow morning I am going for a 5 mile run. You know...Guilt...
So for the cupcakes you are going to need:


175grams of caster sugar
175grams of margarine
3 eggs
3 tablespoons of cocoa
a splash of milk
1tsp on vanilla
250gr of flour
100 gr of white chocolate
a splash (generous or not) of Baileys

The buttermilk frosting is actually a vegan  recipe as I run out of normal milk and only had soy milk. Taste is the same if not better and lasts longer. This makes a big bowl of frosting so you can halve it if you are like me and don't like too much frosting on top. I also wrote the ingredients on my hand while I was in the lab today (bored) but then I had to wash my hands (yes it does happen) so I took a photo of my hand to keep my shopping list. I am Greek. I find it funny that I write my grocery list in English. 

Frosting Ingredients:
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 1/2 cup icing sugar sifted
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup soy milk


For the cupcakes  first preheat the over to 180C.
Beat the margarine till all soft and fluffy and add the sugar. 

Add the eggs and then flour, cocoa, vanilla, Baileys and milk and keep beating.

Add a spoonful of the mix in each cupcake case and then add a piece of chocolate on top.

Add another spoonful of the mix on top. Make sure you only fill the case halfway through cause these babies rise a lot.

(I know.Messy)

Bake them in the oven for 20 mins. When they are done take them out and leave them to cool for at least 10 mins.

In the meantime just grab a bowl and add all the frosting ingredients. If you are anything like me you will have to breathe through an icing sugar cloud so try and add it a little at a time.
So........

This is the interesting part. See, I realised today I was in a colourful mood so I thought to myself....Food colouring.Unfortunately I found out through tasting (eeeek) that the red food colour had expired 4 months ago so I didn't get to use it....
Once your cupcakes are nice and cold frost the hell out of them.

 Skulls like cupcakes too

 Green frosting was extra licky....

I love this. It reminded me of ice cream balls so I will definitely be using food colouring in the future. I know what you think...Colourful decadence. Hell yeah...summer style.
Now who is going to eat all these?

The Decadent Oreo Cupcakes

If you ask anyone who knows me which are my top 3 cake ingredients the answer will be "Oreo cookies, Cream Cheese and White Chocolate". I'm decadent.
A couple of days ago I made a bday cake for my mate (no I was too lazy to take pictures of the procedure) but at the end I got quite a bit of cream cheese frosting left and a packet of Oreos. Naturally....this means Oreo cupcakes with cream cheese frosting on top. 
So I got the Skyrim soundtrack on the playlist and got down to business 

You are going to need: 
Cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup natural unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup hot water
12 Oreos


Frosting:
A packet of Philadelphia
1/2 unsweetened cocoa
2 cups of icing sugar
4tbsp of butter
a dash of vanilla extract

For the frosting:

• Beat the cheese till it is nice and smooth and then butter, cocoa and vanilla extract
• Add the icing sugar a little at a time or you will end up walking in a mist of icing sugar as I did when I hit the mixer button....
• Leave the frosting in the fridge for a couple of hours to set (Unfortunately I have no pictures of this part of the recipe....may update in the future :D)

For the cupcakes:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line tray with 12 baking cups.

• Place one whole cookie in each cup 
• Mix the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl using a wire whisk.

• Add the eggs, oil, vanilla and milk and mix well until thoroughly combined. Add the hot water and mix until combined.
• Transfer the batter (it will be very liquid) to a large measuring cup and then pour batter into each baking cup so it’s about three quarters full. You should have a little left over.

Doesn't this look amazingly gross?

• Bake for 16-18 minutes.

In the meantime I took a picture of one of my Tim Burton Figures . Will be showing you more of my creepy collection in the recipes to come  

Take your cupcakes out and let them cool down for about an hour. I know it is hard to resist them but trust me it is worth the wait

So add a spoonful on top of each cupcake or as much as your tummy desires. I usually go for a spoonful as they are decadent enough and I was never a big fun of frosting anyway....

And voila! Oreo stuffed cupcakes with a cream cheese topping.....

Till next time x

ps: Don't you sometimes feel like this? 

The Up Going Down Chocolate Cake

This one is for Captain Charlie. Mainly because she nagged me to stop being uber busy and post a new recipe.


I have been uber busy. Today I spent 3 hours putting electrodes on someone's head. 
All 64 of them.

Then I had to scrub them clean with a toothbrush.
And then I almost lost all will to live.
But my faith in cake put me back on the straight road and even if deadlines are close and I am still far away from putting electrodes together in less than an hour, here it is.
The one.
The only.
The reason I got an electric mixer.
The Flourless Chocolate Cake.


You are going to need:

• 6 eggs
• 400 gr of chocolate (dark and semi sweet)
• 1 and 1/2 cups of sugar
• 100 gr of butter
• loads of patience to deal with the washing up afterwards.

Place some greaseproof paper at the bottom of a spring-form pan 

Preheat over to 160 Celsius.

Separate  6 large eggs. Yolks in one bowl and egg whites in the other.

Break up the chocolate , add the butter and melt until smooth.

Then add the 6 egg yolks to the chocolate and sugar mixture one at a time whisking after each addition.

In a medium bowl beat the six eggs whites until stiff peaks form. (Yey for electric mixers!)

Gently Fold your egg white mixture into the melted chocolate mixture until combined. Pour it in your pan and bake for 1 hour.

In the meantime clean up the mess you just made.

And draw faces on eggs.

The egg survivors....

When the cake comes out it will look a bit like this

And then it will start sinking

Let it cool down for an hour on the counter and then for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator before releasing it from the springform pan

Dust with a bit of icing sugar and Voila! 

Eleleator going up....Eleleator going down....

Mini baked cheesecakes

It is cold...

as in "Oh my goodness cold" in Wales lately...

Clearly all I want to do is skip lectures and stay snuggled under my duvet with a hot mug of coco watching the new episode of "An American Horror Story".

If you haven't started on the series yet you MUST.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/

I intended to post this recipe 2 days ago but got caught in a zombie movie marathon and trying to sort out my Halloween costume. Aw...and listening to the new Puscifer album.

I miss Tool.

I understand Maynard tho. I don't particularly want Merkin Vineyards but would love to have a bakery and hide myself in the basement between bags of chocolate and cinnamon sticks writing recipes in a trance.

So yeah...Mini baked cheesecakes.

This is an oldie but goodie. They are slightly addictive so I suggest you keep them hidden away from everyone and enjoy them yourselves.

For 6 minis you are going to need: 

250gr cream cheese at room temp

1/2 cup (110gr) caster sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1tbsp fresh lemon juice

2 eggs

6 biscuits for the base (preferably small ones)

Strawberry Jam Or the can be served with berries and icing sugar on top but come one....who says no to strawberry Jam...

(ps: If you double the ingredients it should give you about 16 minis)

1) Preheat the oven to 180 celcius and line 6 large muffin pans each with two paper cases (trust me you DO need two) and place a biscuit in the base of each muffin case pressing down firmly. If you want your cheesecakes looking pretty use fancy animal print cases as the outside ones *wink

2) Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice until light and creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time (this may get messy)

3) Top the muffin cases with the cream cheese mixture. Try not to fill all the way to the top as they will rise slightly when baked

4) Bake for 20 minutes or until slightly risen (or risen a lot if your oven is fan assisted like mine ) and just begin to crack a little on the surface. Do not panic if they rise to much, once they cool down they will sink back in

5) Set aside for 30 mins to cool down and then grab that yummy jam and give it a good spoonfull on top

And voila!

You'll have a hard time keeping anyone out of your fridge....believe me.

That's it for now.

Love

Kitty

xxx