Almost Alice Cupcakes from Christinamachtwas

Dear lovely readers,

I´d like to introduce myself. My Name is Christina, I´m a friend of Anna and a blogger myself. At Christinamachtwas I share with you my latest recipes, my thoughts and so much more. Take a look, but first I´d like to show you my Almost Alice Cupcake that I created just for my lovely Anna.

For the inspiration I took a picture that Anna posted a few posts back. It´s this one:

I thought it would be perfect for a Cupcake, and I was right. They´re terrific, aren´t they?

You will need for 6 - 8 Cupcakes:

Ingredients: 200 g Flour 1/2 Ts Bakingpowder 1/2 Ts Natron (Bakingsoda) 1 pinch of Salt  70 g Butter 100 g Sugar 1 Egg  75 ml Milk 2 Hands full Berrys (Blueberrys + Red Currant) 1/2 Lemon

Directions: Mix together flour, bakingpowder, bakingsoda & salt. Whisk butter and sugar until it´s fluffy. Add the egg and the milk to the buttermixture and whisk until it´s comined. Now add the flourmixture and only use a wooden spoon to combine.     It´s not bad if there are flourflakes in the batter! Now add the berrys and gently fold them in. If you like you can squeeze a little bit of the lemonjuice in the batter. Fill it in papercups and bake at 180 °C about 12 - 15 Minutes. Make the "chopstick"-test. Let them cool completely.

And for the frosting you´ll need:

Ingredients: 250 g Mascapone 1 Package Cream Cheese 2 - 4 Ts Powdersugar Food dye in teal and blue if you want: Sugarpearls in black

Directions: Whisk everything together and  garnish the Cupcakes with it.                                    Add Sugarpearls to the frosting and enjoy!

I hope you liked my little sweet Almost Alice Cupcakes & I would be pleased to welcome you to my blog as well. 

Vanilla Cupcakes

What? Cupcakes? Baking?
Yeah, I bake. In fact, I love to bake! And most recently I taught myself to make different sorts of cupcakes and muffins because, you know, it's semester break and I wanted to include something useful in my week plan that hadn't to do with language practise, working or fitness.
Having received two cupcake baker's books for Christmas and my last birthday, I was ready to go!

Today I wanted to show you my vanilla cupcakes from a recipe available here. Unfortunately, there's no English version for that recipe - but don't worry, there will be more sorts of cupcakes and muffins coming soon!

For these, I used flavour from real vanilla beans and also made buttercream. I was glad everything worked out well and a colleague from work even said she imagined me as a new third member of 2 Broke Girls!

And I love taking pictures of them. I really do. Nothing makes me more proud than catching a long lasting memory of my creations before they're eaten up forever. That's the sad thing about pastries :(