I have a recipe for gingerbread cupcakes which I'm going to make instead of Christmas cake which no-one eats but, being limited for decorating time, does anyone know where you can get some sort of Christmas sprinkle to go on top!I've seen them somewhere - red and green Christmas trees or bits of holly - just can't remember where .
monkey_room,
Dec 9, 10:27pm
These are very christmasy.
Red Velvet Cupcakes Ingredients Makes: 20 little cakes • 125g butter • 1 1/4 cups (250g) caster sugar • 2 eggs • 1 cup (250ml) buttermilk • 1 tablespoon (20ml) red food colouring • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence • 1/2 teaspoon bi-carb soda • 2 cups (250g) self-raising flour • 1 tablespoon white vinegar • 1/3 cup (40g) cocoa
Preparation method Prep: 3 minutes 1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease two 12 cup muffin tins or line with 20 muffin cases or patty pans.
2. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, red food colouring and vanilla. Stir in the bi-carb and vinegar.
3. Combine the flour, cocoa powder and salt; stir into the batter just until blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the tins on wire racks. Ice when completely cool.
Buttermilk If you dont have buttermilk, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to a cup of milk. You can also use plain milk in this recipe. I iced with a White chocolate and cream cheese icing. The recipe I used for this was out of whack totally and I had to remove a lot of the liquid.You can find another one on the net and experimentand my advice is to be very stingy with the cream cheese as it goes very liquid. These are Divine and just need a little bit of green on top to make a feature of,
Yeah that sort of thing pam and ellie - I suppose I just need to go around every supermarket until I find them, so annoying when you know you've seen exactly what you want and can't remember where!
I'm sure the red velvet cupcakes are delicious but gingerbread got the vote here
sarahb5 go down to the new cake shop on devon st west they sell all the things that you would want, i was impressed going back next week, so much neat stuff i couldnt make up my mind lol .its across the road from the drycleaners by the bowling place
baalamb,
Dec 10, 2:47am
.maybe Stevens!
sarahb5,
Dec 10, 6:04pm
I didn't know there was such a place - will give them a try next weekend because Spotlight were pretty hopeless - hope they're open Saturdays
rosiemoodle,
Dec 10, 6:12pm
they have them at Countdown in CHCH Maybe try your local one
sjc72,
Dec 10, 6:23pm
The cake stuff website and kiwi cakes are both great for buying online and the stuff comes so fast. Can't imagine why you would even chase around the shops.
sarahb5,
Dec 10, 7:16pm
Because I'm fussy and I want to see them before I buy them
wazzon,
Dec 11, 12:35am
open sat morning had a great range of decorations when i went in can check them out on www.allaboutcakes.co.nz ,i wouldnt even bother with online or supermarkets after seeing what they got ,let me no what u think
sarahb5,
Dec 11, 3:17am
That looks awesome - will call in next weekend - thanks!
sarahb5,
Dec 16, 7:11pm
That shop was amazing - called in this morning and got the sparkly stuff to sprinkle over the top that will look like snow and some little stars to use on my meringue Christmas trees and the guy (Paul) is great, very friendly and helpful - thanks so much wazzon
charlieb2,
Dec 16, 7:20pm
Sarah. would you share your recipe, love the idea of gingerbread cupcakes
sarahb5,
Dec 16, 8:17pm
Sure - will be back shortly and post it then but don't blame me if you eat the rest of the crystallized ginger!
charlieb2,
Dec 16, 8:26pm
lol. thanks sarah!
elliehen,
Dec 16, 8:31pm
Me too please!Christmas and ginger are soul mates.
charlieb2,
Dec 16, 8:55pm
None of us like traditional christmas cake here. well, mr does, but it would go mouldy before he got thru it! lol. so ginger cupcakes sound like a plan
Preheat the oven to 175°C.Place 12 paper baking cases in a muffin tin.Sieve the flour, baking powder, ginger and cinnamon into a large bowl.In a medium bowl combine the remaining ingredients and beat with an electric whisk until smooth, about 2 - 3 minutes.Stir into the dry ingredients.Spoon the batter into the cases.
Bake for 20 minutes.Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes.Remove cupcakes and cool on a rack.
(You're supposed to put a lemon drizzle over the top but they're for Christmas so I'm doing butter cream with a white chocolate decoration and some of the sparkly sprinkle over the top)
Enjoy!
elliehen,
Dec 16, 9:32pm
Thanks!A ginger/Christmas combination I have bought and enjoyed, but not yet made is the Pfeffernüsse (German - pepper nuts).
Of course, I cannot vouch that this is the ORIGINAL Pfeffernüsse recipe, but it's a start ;)
sarahb5,
Dec 16, 9:36pm
They do sound good but I don't think I find room in the menu for anything else!Miss 20 keeps finding stuff she wants to bake as well - reindeer cookies, Yule log, Christmas cookies, raspberry tarts, meringue Christmas trees - lucky our table is strong!
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