White Christmas Cupcakes

Merry Christmas, my dears!

I hope you're enjoying the holidays! :)

In Germany we already received our presents and now I want to share some more Christmas cupcakes with you.

Apparently, it doesn't snow so there is no white Christmas this year. 

These are really festive cupcakes and they don't taste too rich, so you can even serve them after diner! (This is not my 'special' but it will come soon)

What you need for the dough to make about 16-20 cupcakes:

1,5cups spelt flour

75g dark chocolate

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon mixed christmas spice

pinch of salt

1/8cup instant coffe

1/2cup boiling water

100g butter

3/4cup dark sugar

2 eggs

3-4 tablespoons sour cream

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Place the chocolate, the coffee and the water in a small sauce pan which swims in another sauce pan filled with water. Stir continously until the chocolate has melted.

Then mix it all together and bake for 15minutes on 200°C. It will rise a lot!

For the icing you need:

1 egg white

180-200g icing sugar

Just mix it together and then cover the cooled cupcakes with to layers. After that you can sprinkle it with silver balls and paint some silver pearl dust on top after the icing has dried. 

I decided to make some baked apples with nuts, honey and cinnamon for tomorrow. It's not a cake but you bake it so I'll post it ^.^

With best regards,

Francine

Christmas Cupcakes: Apple and Cinnamon

 Hello my dears!

I'm sorry I didn't post for so long, but everything is very stressful at the moment. I scarcely had time to bake... but finally I managed to make some Cupcakes! ^.^

I try to avoid wheat and use spelt instead because it's much healthier. So the following recepies will be with spelt flour but you can replace it with wheat flour easily.

I baked apple cinnamon cupcakes with honey buttercream.

What you need for the dough (to make 28 cupcakes):

400g spelt flour

250g butter

280g sugar

4 eggs

10ml milk

4 apples

1,5 tablespoons cinnamon

3/4 teaspoon lemon zest

2 teaspoons baking powder

First you mix everything together except the apples, cinnamon and lemon zest.

Wash the apples and then grate them. In a seperate bowl stir together the grated apples, the cinnamon and the lemon zest. Add it to the dough and then fill into cupcake papers.

Bake for 15-20minutes (or until a fine skewer comes out clean) on 180°C.

To make the frosting:

250g butter

600g icing sugar

6 tablespoons clear honey

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

3-5 tablespoons milk

Just mix it all together, and then you can use food coloring for the 'christmas'-look! :)

I topped the cupcakes by piping and then I added apple slices (which were dipped in lemon juice to avoid a browm colour) and I spread some red glitter on top <3

Finally I want to ask you wether you have any idea what I shall serve at christmas diner?! Last year we had pears in punsch with cranberries which was really delicious! 

I am looking forward to your advices! ^.^

With best regards,

Francine