To be fair, I have to ask Fatin as well. "Cupcakes, I want cupcakes!" she replied excitedly. Hmmm, I have plenty of time today, why not I bake both! Scrolled through my file and finally decided to try Rich Choc Moist Cake for Fatin's cupcakes. Thank you Mamafami for sharing this recipe.
Dear Ree and Mamafami, allow me to post your recipes here. OK, here goes. The results of my banking adventure today!
Sigrid’s Carrot Cake
Source: Ree Drummond
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting sprinkled with chopped almonds
FOR CAKE:
2 cups Sugar
1 cup Vegetable Oil
4 whole Eggs
2 cups All-purpose Flour
½ teaspoons Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
2 cups Grated Carrots
For Icing
1/2 cup Butter (113.5g)
8 Oz Cream Cheese (approximately 250g)
1 pound Powdered Sugar (I used only 200g)
2 teaspoons Vanilla (I substitued with 2 teaspoons vanilla powderz0
1 cup Pecans, Chopped Finely (could not find any pecan in Carrefour, I substituted with almonds)
Cake:
Blend together the sugar, oil and eggs in a mixer. In another bowl sift together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Add to first mixture and combine. Then add carrots and mix well. Pour into a greased and floured pan (bundt, sheet cake, 9 x 13 pyrex) and bake in preheated oven at 175 degrees, 25 to 50 minutes, depending on the pan you use.
Cool completely.
Icing:
In larger bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and vanilla and blend, then mix in the nuts. Spread on cooled carrot cake.
Rich Chocolate Moist Cuppies
Source : Mamafami (original source from Zack aka Mrs Zairul)
Ingredients A
70gm butter
300gm castor sugar
3 eggs
Ingredients B
2 teaspoons Nescafe granules
1 tablespoon lukewarm water
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence (I substituted with vanilla powder)
1 teaspoon Chocolate emulco
Ingredients C
225gm flour
65gm cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
180ml chilled water from the refrigerator
Cake:
Beat butter and sugar on high speed till light. Add eggs, one at a time and continue beating. Mix well ingredients B and pour a little at a time into the batter. Beat a few minutes more. Sift ingredients C. Cut and fold ingredients C into the batter alternately with chilled water, starting and ending with flour. Spoon mixture into papercups until 3/4 filled and bake in a preheated oven at 175 C for 20 minutes. If you would like to bake a full cake, Mamafami suggested a 9 inch round tin, and bake for 40 minutes or till done.
Creamcheese frosting topped with Maltesers
TOPPING (I was too lazy to make this ganache, instead used leftovers cream cheese frosting as topping)
1 can condensed milk
90gm cocoa powder
100ml corn oil or melted butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
In a small pot on slow fire, heat the milk (make sure the milk doesn't get burnt!). Add in sifted cocoa powder and stir to mix. Add in vanilla essence and corn oil/melted butter. Stir to mix well and shiny, about 5 minutes. Once lukewarm, pour onto the cooled cake and decorate as you wish.
