Cupcakes galore

Vanilla Buttercream Colors

I'm officially declaring this week as Cupcake Week!

Thanks to Cupcake for posting those mouthwatering pictures of her creations as well as the countless photos currently circling around in Facebook of friends either sharing their own creations and wishlists, I thought it's about time I introduce the ultimate cupcake of all cupcakes.

Introduced by a cousin 2 years ago during my summer holiday in NYC, Buttercup Bake Shop makes these divine cupcakes which will make you forget all the cupcakes you've eaten all this time. Freshly made daily, they come in various kinds, from good ol'fashioned vanilla with chocolate frosting to German Chocolate to Spicy Sour Cream to the sumptuous red velvet - courtesy of F who, upon my recommendation, brought back and introduced me to probably the best-tasting cupcake out of all the Buttercup cupcakes I've tasted. Definitely not for the faint-hearted!

So if you're ever in NYC, do check it out. As the saying goes, "don't miss out on what life has to offer", or in this particular case, what Buttercup Bake Shop has to offer!

Assorted Cupcakes

Are you drooling again?

Photos courtesy of Buttercup Bake Shop

Baking spree - response

Cupcake, speaking on behalf of our readers,

*drooooool*

*sluuurrrrrrrrrrpppp*

How could anyone NOT resist those cupcakes and muffins??!??

TPC on a baking spree : my signature Pink Cupcake

this has to be my signature cupcake. everyone loves these.

TPC on a baking spree : Banana Date Muffin

also from the recent girlie get together, at the request of Hannan's papa, his favourite muffin.

TPC on a baking spree : Blue Iced Chocolate Cupcakes

at a recent get together with the BFF's , cupcakes need to be made. i am usually a pink cupcake kinda girl. but i decided to go for baby blue this time. also to show off my brilliant Wilton Cupcake Stand.

TPC on a baking spree : Mini Double Chocolate Muffin

i know i have been neglecting to contribute to the blog. sorry kitty! as you know, i have been distracted! hehehehe! anyhow, had the nieces over today and they requested this. presenting..... Mini Double Chocolate Muffin.
from the top, fresh from the oven and paper peeled off, then just to show the dark inside, then going....going...and GONE!!!

The great cupcake project

When Cupcake wrote as her Facebook status that she was involved in this "great cupcake project", I knew she was in her baking mood. However little did I know that her project involved springing this lovely, not forgetting mouthwatering, surprise on moi..

Cupcake, merci beaucoup and have fun in jolly ol' England!

vanilla butterscotch cupcakes

(DROOL ALERT!) specifically, it's vanilla cupcakes with butterscotch icing. i have always loved the taste of brown/burnt sugar, ie caramel, toffee, butterscotch, gula melaka, gula anau etc. recently i was gushing over the butterscotch eclair at Saffron, hence the inspiration to marry two of my favourite flavours. i made up my own icing recipe, using my usual cream cheese icing with less butter mixed with butterscotch sauce i had made up earlier (again, a lets-just-toss-things-in-and-see-if-it-works recipe) . the result was a medium consistency icing, with the slightest tinge of caramel colour, and a delicate butterscotch taste coming through. i am quite proud of this creation. i finished it off with a sprinkling of brown sugar. from top, my bald bare vanilla cupcakes, then smothered in icing and lastly sprinkled with sugar.
nice, isn't it?

more cupcakes!

actually, it's technically not cupcakes, but its my favourite double chocolate muffins. it was azah's birthday recently, so instead of the usual birthday cake, i decided it was about time for my Wilton Cupcake stand to make its debut. i was going to make iced cupcakes, but decided on bare muffins at the behest of my sister. still, it looked fantastic. especially with all the candles lit up. once the candles were blown out, the rush to grab a muffin happened. plenty of people were disappointed as the stand only holds 23 of my decadent chocolate wonders. next time i will remember to make extra.

my latest obsession...Wilton Cupcake Stands!

i am in love. well, maybe just obsessed slightly. i am well into my Cupcake Fixation. therefore in my recent galivanting in KL and Singapore, i managed to find my ultimate dream, the Wilton Cupcake Stand. actually, i am so bad, i ended up buying FIVE of them. hahahahaha! okay, it is a bit over the top, but i couldnt help myself. due to baggage constraints, i made them send it over to Brunei for me, hence i am still waiting for the precious things to arrive. tried explaining my latest love to Medulla and Kitty but they cannot visualise it. so especially for you two, this is what i have been waxing lyrical about. and once i go into full baking mode, it will look this gorgeous too. now, i just need a good reason to make countless cupcakes. any suggestions?

p/s i only bought two of the bottom two and one of the middle one. i was sorely tempted to buy the big one which holds 38 cupcakes, but i resisted....for now. but now looking at the top pic, i am now inspired to make Rocky Road Cupcakes....God help me!

The start of something 'new'..

It was one of those rare Sundays where we made the extra effort to get up early. Our first effort in holding a garage sale. Though we still need to work on our PR skills, nevertheless our debut effort had a reasonable turnout with everyone ranging from Medulla (with her endless boxes of kiddies' stuff) to Cupcake (who'd spent 7 solid hours the day before making her infamous brownies (yumm), carrot cake (yumm yumm) and mini cupcakes (triple yumm esp those vanilla cupcakes which is now my second official favourite Cupcake creation after her brownies) with her newly-minted oven) to Greenie (another compulsive shopaholic who simply cannot resist buying for her mini-me daughter!) to mozart (who could forget that rare Jason Donavan CD she had lying in her room??) making some pretty good dosh..so much so that we're itching to do this whole garage-sale business another go.

Kudos to everyone involved, particularly to mozart for lending us the space.

double chocolate heaven..

this post has no purpose other than to make the readers of this blog (plus Kitty!) to drool and salivate merrily. i have realised that i like taking pictures of food. food i make, food i eat, food i order. food is such an important part of life. i have accepted that it is now becoming an obsession. otherwise, how would you explain that i spent the whole afternoon googling "vanilla cupcake recipes" and not sleeping, considering i have been working the night shift for the past week? in my preparation for sunday, i have decided on the list of goodies.

-vanilla cupcakes with pink icing

-double chocolate cupcakes with white icing

-my ever so in demand gooey chocolate brownies (this thing seriously needs a fanclub. the number of people who are practically addicted to this is astounding!)

-my also very famous carrot cake with oodles of cream cheese icing (most friends prefer about 1 inch of icing)

the pic above has NOTHING to do with Sunday's goings-on, but i thought it is such a gorgeous thing, it has to be shared.

cupcakes

as per my namesake, i do confess i love baking. i see baking as a form of stress relief. there is nothing more soothing and calming than measuring ingredients, mixing it properly, and baking all those sinful goodies i seem to be good at, (according to my friends, anyway...i don't toot my own horn!) here are a few batches i have made in the past two weeks. sorry if i have induced saliva drooling and hunger pangs....