Double Chocolate Cupcakes – The Recipe That Will Surely Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Cupcakes have become very popular nowadays in Brisbane People here are loving to have them. These desserts have in fact become the talk of the town and are used in almost all kinds of occasions whether its someone's birthday, wedding, anniversary, baby shower, farewell or any other. They are small delights that have gained the most popularity as desserts in the recent times. 

Here is a recipe of a cupcake – the double chocolate cupcake, which is surely going to satisfy your sweet tooth. So if it's your near or dear one's birthday or anniversary, you can try out making this item and give him or her a surprise. 

The ingredients that you will need for making this cupcake are as follows: 

• 1 cup of all-purpose flour

• 1/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa

• 1 tsp of baking soda 

• 1/8 tsp of salt

• 2/3 cup of granulated sugar

• ¼ cup of butter softened 

• ½ cup of egg substitute 

• 1 tsp of vanilla 

• ½ cup of low-fat buttermilk 

• 1 ¼ of dark chocolate finely chopped 

• 2 tbsp of powdered sugar 

So, very simple ingredients are needed to make the cake. Below is the preparation. Check it out: 

First preheat the oven to a temperature of about 350°. Then lightly spoon flour into a measuring cup but make sure the cup is dry. Add cocoa, salt and baking soda with the flour and mix it thoroughly with a whisk. Take a big bowl & place granulated sugar that you have along with the butter in that bowl. Beat it with a mixer until it is mixed well. Then add the egg substitute & the vanilla.  Also add the flour mixture that you have kept aside & the buttermilk alternately to granulated sugar mixture. Fold in the chocolate. 

Now you need to spoon the batter into twelve muffin cups that are lined with the muffin cup liners and bake at about 350° for eighteen minutes or until the wooden pick when inserted in the centre comes out in a clean way. After you think that the cupcakes are done, remove them from the pan and keep them aside for cooling. After the cakes get cooled completely, sprinkle powdered sugar on them but make sure this sprinkling is done just before you serve. 

Deborah Feltham specialises in making different kinds of cakes like wedding cakes, birthday cakes, novelty cakes, corporate cakes, baby shower cakes and cupcakes in Brisbane. She is a member of Cake Decorators Association. Here she has given the double chocolate cupcake recipe. Try this out! However, if you want her to make this cake for you then order online.

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8 Cupcakes Decorating Ideas

8 Cupcakes Decorating Ideas from Creative Cakes

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9 Cupcakes Decorating Techniques

The look of your cupcakes can be changed. But for that, you need to decorate it very cleverly. However, decorating these small pieces of dessert items has never been that easy. Here are some cupcakes decorating techniques that may help you make these dessert items look more wonderful. 

A piping of flower

The top of a cupcake is perfect for planting a flower. Think of a circular surface as flower nail on which you may pipe the petals. Try out the petal shapes that you like the most for creating your own fantasy flower.
 

Grass

This creates the most accomplished and celebrated decorations. Serrated edges of grass tip make the ridges in icing as it’s squeezed.
 

Rosette

It has a tight, swirling look of rose. However, it is achieved in a continuous rotation rather than with a wrapped layer of petal. A single rosette is even used as a candleholder on top of the cupcake.

Luv-Bugs

This is a very cute cupcake decoration, which sits up and grabs the Valentine’s heart. With Valentine’s Day coming near, you can order for this kind of cupcakes in Brisbane from Deborah Feltham. “These luv-bugs are easy to make with ball head, and rosette body, trimmed with licorice as well as icing decorations”, says Deborah Feltham of Creative Cakes, the bakery shop in Brisbane.
 

Drop flowers

This is a great way of adding flowers quickly. All you need to do is pipe down the drop flowers directly in the buttercream flavor on the cake. But flowers may be sharper when piped in the royal.
 

Shell

It is a very popular icing technique. It is the basis for different borders. Cake decorators usually lift the tip a bit while piping for avoiding that bumpy look.

Script writing

If you want, you can personalize the celebration cake by wring down a message on it. This will have a great impact on the person for whom the cupcake is made for. There is a special technique of adding messages on a cupcake, which only the cake decorators know.

Buttercream rope

It is a technique for finishing the piped baskets with a textured edging. The decoration is perfect for nautical or western themed cakes. 

Leaves

You can place different kinds of leaves on the top of the cupcake to give it a more realistic garden look and feel. You can ask your cake designer to add piping gel to your icing in order to help keep the leaves from breakage. This kind of cupcake designs are great for world environment day and all occasions for going green. 

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Popular Flavors of Cupcake

It is a good time to be a fan of cupcake. In the recent years, these tasty, versatile treats have become quite inexpensive and easy to make. They are randomly been given away at the children’s parties to the trendy desserts all over in Australia. Today, cupcakes in Brisbane are a great deal. While a lot of eateries and restaurants have already shut their doors, a lot of businesses specializing in making cupcakes are booming.

Here we are discussed about some popular flavors of cupcakes and explained the reasons behind their demand.
 

Vanilla and chocolate
 

Vanilla and chocolate cupcakes are simply timeless. They combine the two most fundamental sweet tastes into unbeatable concoction, which is in style. You will find vanilla and chocolate cupcakes everywhere from school cafeterias to the trendiest cake shops. Vanilla and chocolate cupcakes consists only two flavors but they have countless variations. A light vanilla cake with dark chocolate frosting offers a completely different taste from milk chocolate cake that’s slathered with vanilla icing. You can never go wrong with these two flavors.

Banana

There is definitely something nostalgic and comforting about banana cupcakes. They taste very similar to banana breads. These desserts are quite popular and go well with different kinds of icings and toppings. Anyone who has taken a banana split knows how these mushy yellow fruits are. Banana frosting is always a great choice. 

Lemon

If you think that when biting a lemon cupcake, you will sink your teeth into actual lemon, you are wrong. Although there is going to be a slight tartness with the cake, the overriding sensation is sweet and this is what makes the flavor so popular. People who are fond of a bit sour with sweet are very much fond of this variety.  The lemon cakes have gained a huge popularity in the recent years. 

Carrot cake

Carrot is one of the main ingredients in making European sweet cakes since middle ages. The reason why carrots are so popular is: they have more sugar content in comparison to other vegetables. These cakes are sweet orange and white ones that have cream cheese-based frosting. They are found in most of the bakeries in Brisbane nowadays. 

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Candied-Hazelnut Cupcakes: The Perfect Recipe to Bring Smiles on Your Loved Ones Face

Planning to prepare a cupcake for your little one? Your child and husband would love having it! Made with hazelnuts and almonds and covered with dark chocolate frosting, these candied-hazelnut cupcakes are simply worth serving on their own. So, what are you waiting for? There is a lot of work to do. Roll up your sleeves and get busy with the preparation.

First arrange all the things you will need for making the candied hazelnut cupcakes.

• Flour-3/4 cup
• Hazelnuts toasted and skinned-1/2 cup
• Toasted unblanched almonds-1/2 cup
• Cake flour sifted-3/4 cup
• Baking powder-11/2 tsp
• Salt-1/4 tsp
• Unsalted butter-1/2 cup
• Granulated sugar-1/4 cup
• Milk-3/4 cup
• Dark brown sugar-1/2 cup
• Egg whites of 4 eggs
• Hazelnuts dipped in caramel
• Dark chocolate frosting

After you arrange all these things follow the steps one by one:

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the standard muffin tins with the paper liners. Pulse the hazelnuts and almonds together in a food processor until ground finely. In a bowl, sift together both the flours (cake flours and all purpose flour), baking powder as well as salt. Beat up the ground nuts.

Step 2

Cream butter and both the sugar (brown sugar and granulated sugar) until smooth using an electric mixer. Whisk in vanilla. Add the mixture of flour in three batches alternating with two additions of milk and fluffing up well after each.

Step 3

In another bowl, beat in the egg whites using the electric mixer. Use medium speed for doing this and continue beating until the soft peaks form. In two additions, fold the whites of eggs gently into batter.

Step 4

Divide the batter evenly among the lined cups, filling up each three-quarters full. Then bake rotating the tins until the cake tester that’s inserted in the centers come out clean. This will however take about twenty-five minutes. When this is done, put the tins to the wire racks for cooling before removing the cupcakes. Store the cupcakes up to three days at a room temperature. When I make these cupcakes in Brisbane, I at least do this. If you want, you can even freeze up to two months in the airtight containers.

Step 5

Spread the frosting over each cupcake making use of an offset spatula. You can refrigerate these cupcakes up to three days in the airtight containers and then bring to the room temperature. But make sure to top up the cupcake with the hazelnuts dipped in caramel just before you serve.

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Modern Wedding Cake Topper Ideas

Wedding is a very special ceremony for brides and grooms. In fact, it is so special for brides and grooms that they try to do every little thing possible in a very special way to make the occasion a gala event and a unique one. Many in order to add some personal touch to the celebration also make sure to order the baker for a unique wedding cake topper along with the cake. Although many of you might consider this concept of adding the piece of small model on top of the cake a backdated affair, if done elegantly, they can add a lot more meaning and be real fun. In fact, what is it that is going to make the wedding cake look different and unique if it doesn’t have that wedding topper?

There is only the bride and groom dressed up in wedding attire in traditional wedding toppers but the modern day toppers are not the same. The modern day couples look for something more eclectic that is going to stand out from the crowd. They look for ones that can grab the attention of their guests. From humorous and fun cake toppers to elegant monograms, there are many kinds of cake accessories that are available nowadays. You can add any of them in style and put an eclectic flair and personal touch to your D-day.

Modern day couples usually look for cake toppers that reflect them as couple. Any characteristic feature or activity that they both have common or like doing are usually portrayed through the model. You can find many wedding cakes in Brisbane having toppers such as both bride and groom riding horses or both of them slaloming down the wedding cake on the miniature skis. There are even toppers where the bride is trying to clamber up onto the topmost tier being helped by groom who is on top already. One of the most common wedding cake toppers of modern times is groom sitting down on a knee at base of cake while bride looking down from top. If both of you love to joke around and want to lighten up the seriousness of wedding, go for wedding cake toppers which give a sense of comedy.

However, it is not always that the modern day brides and grooms look for cake toppers that feature only them. Flowers also make a wonderful topper. They can either be the fresh flowers for matching those in the bouquet or the iced ones falling down from cake’s side. Silk flowers can also be used as a topper.

Having antique jewellery, particularly the brooches as a cake topper is presently in vogue. Vintage cake topper which your grandparents or parents had on their cake is also a popular way of sticking with the tradition and honoring the family.

However, if you don’t think that the cake you ordered requires a topper for decor, there is no need for you to add one.

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Best Cupcake Combinations Made In the Heaven

There is no hard and fast rule for decorating cupcakes. You can do it as much as you can do but just remember that it needs to satisfy your taste buds. In Australia every day numerous R&D have been going on in decorating cupcakes in Brisbane. Unique flavor combinations are emerging every day. Bakers are spending extra times in inventing new toppings for their customers. In spite of new flavors and their popularity there has been no lack of craze for traditional cupcake combinations that are all time favorite beyond generation boundary.

 Here are the best traditional cupcake combinations appraised all over the world.

Lemon cupcake with raspberry cream frosting:

Sweet and tart combinations are the best on palate. Lemon sponge cupcakes topped with red raspberry icing along with fresh raspberry slices makes the heavenly combination. It can be accompanied with raspberry lemonade.

Apple cupcake along with caramel butter frosting:

Apples with cakes bring one of the irresistible combinations of flavor. I would advise you to get some apple slices and mix them with cupcake mixture instead of using apple essence. Pour soft caramel butter icing on the top and dust with cinnamon powder.

Mocha cupcake with espresso butter cream:

Cupcake base made up of chocolate can go with almost every topping. If you are looking to improvise it, add good quality Jamaican coffee powder with a perfect blend of chocolate into cupcake dough. After baking them pipe freshly made butter cream with dust of freshly ground coffee on top of it.

Dark chocolate cupcake with mint frosting:

From the appearance this cupcake combination will excite your craving for it. Dark black chocolate base with green minty frosting will refresh your mouth and provoke you to ask for more.
  

Pineapple cupcake with brown sugar butter cream:

Again the combination of tart and sweet will cleanse your plate and ask you to go for more. Tantalize pineapple base with small cubes of the fruit garnished and light amber color brown sugar syrup and butter cream.

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Personalize Your Wedding Cake with Unique Cake Toppers

A wedding cake toper is basically a little model, which sits on top of the D-day cake. It usually represents the couple in formal wedding attire and is only the part of a cake that can be kept for a long time as memory apart from the photographs. It became popular in 1950s in the US. At that time it represented togetherness. Today, these figurines have become a part of decorative theme for a couple’s wedding style.

Different styles of toppers are available to match the theme and style of wedding these days. For instance, traditional toppers for formal wedding and comical wedding cake toppers for less formal ones are available. Toppers depending on the hobbies of couples can also be obtained. So, this is no more the age where you can only find the bride and groom in formal attire with bride in veil and a white and long gown.

Nowadays, wedding cake toppers have returned as one of the best ways to cap off a signature piece of a wedding reception. They have come a long way from days of plastic groom and bride. Some of them are ornate and some elegant. Some are even caricatures and some whimsical. There are also some, which play a great tune. However, they are optional but can be an awesome expression of a bridal style. It is after all a trendy method for putting personalized touch on the cake. In recent times, these toppers have become a sign of growing diversity in the marriages. Wedding toppers, which are multi-ethnic, are also available.

The figurine places on top of the cake must reflect your personality and set off the way in which rest of the cake is decorated. You have endless options to choose from, right from fondant monograms or gum-paste to decorations which mirror another element of wedding.

Look around and you may find many toppers, which can delight you. You can also consult with Deborah Feltham, who makes and supplies wedding cakes in Brisbane to know about the topper that will suit your wedding style or theme the best.

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