Red Velvet Goodness,,,

Last night I had the urge to bake, and since I had all the goodies I needed to make Red Velvet Cupcakes.... thats is exactly what I made... whats better then a cupcake with a hint of chocolate and thats red? With yummilicious icing to top it off... I love devouring mine with good old Strawberries.. Yummilicious!

Ingredients for cupcakes

2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2tbs cocoa powder
1/2 cup butter at room temp
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs (or 3 medium ones)
1tsp vanilla
1 cup buttermilk (If u don't have it.. add 1 tbs of white vinegar OR lemon to a cup of milk.. and let set for 5- 10 minutes, you can also use Laban)
2tbs RED food colouring
1tsp white vinegar
1 tsp baking soda

Directions:

1. Pre heat oven to 375 and have your cupcake OR cake pans ready (greased)
2. Mix the flour, salt, cocoa powder, and baking soda.. set aside
3. Mix the butter with sugar, add the eggs one at a time, add the buttermilk
4. Mix the two together.. add the tsp vinegar, vanilla, and red food colouring... mix well..
5. Put into the pans.. and leave in oven for about 20-25 minutes for Cupcakes.. since this makes about 24 small cupcakes... I would suggest you check the cupcakes at 15 minutes on the second batch.

      

Ingredients for icing:

This time I used about 10 kiri packages (the small square ones)

about 1/3 cup butter

2 cups icing sugar

1tsp vanilla

Mix well till fluffy, and refrigerate till you are ready to use

For decorativeness, I used sugar with red food colouring and sprinkled it on top, served it with strawberries... and they were good to go!

Enjoy...

I also have a great recipe for red velvet whoopie pies, I will make them soon and post it here enshallah.

Rainbow Cupcakes

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
1 3/4 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 375

Directions


Mix eggs with a mixer till fluffy, add the butter, then the sugar. Add the milk to the mix. Add the flour and baking soda and salt. Add Vanilla

Now to add the colour. Separate the mix into how many different colours you want. I used green, red, blue, orange and yellow. Once you separate, add the food colouring to the different batches.. I leave one as the white cake. You will spoon the different colours into each of the cupcakes you will be making (12 cupcake pan)... and you will continue to spoon in the different colours into each one till you finish all the cupcake mix you have.

Place into oven and bake for about 20-25 minutes...

Let it cool on a cooling rack, put the frosting on, decorate, and serve :)

Enjoy

Ooey Gooeyyy Chocolate Chip Cookies...

Thick, chewy, and Oh so delicious! Thats what comes to mind whenever I bake these cookies. Once again, they may be so good, you will need to toss them in the garbage.. Waste NOT waist right ;)


Ingredients

2 Cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1tsp vanilla

1 cup chocolate chip cookies

Preheat oven @ 325 degrees f

Directions

Mix flour, salt, and baking soda- set aside
mix eggs brown sugar, and white sugar, butter
Add vanilla
Add the flour mix, until you get a nice cookie dough
Add chocolate chips

Put into balls set in baking tray, and put in freezer for about 5 minutes, put into preheated oven and allow to bake for 15-17 minutes.

This usually makes about 36 cookies, and I usually like to take half of it, and leave it in the freezer for another day :)

Enjoy

I have been baking these for a couple of years now... and they are always a winning combination, and people always ask for recipe, seconds, or both :)