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Cupcakes

Do you like cupcakes? I do! If you don’t like strawberries and chocolate, these may not float your boat, but if you do, these wonderful little cupcakes are the perfect couple of bites to make your day better. Plus, these little cupcakes are very moist and sweet, so they’re great for those midnight cravings! 

Chocolate Malt Cupcakes with Vanilla Malt Buttercream - rich chocolate cupcakes with a hint of malt are topped with a fluffy buttercream infused with even more malt flavor.

Serves: 30 servings

Ingredients

Cupcakes:

• 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 1½ teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1¼ cups original malted milk powder
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Buttercream:

• 1½ cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ¾ cup original malted milk powder
• 2½ cups powdered sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

Make the cupcakes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line 30 muffin tins with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Whisk to combine.
3. Combine the milk and the malted milk powder in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix until the malted milk powder has dissolved. Add in the oil, then add in the eggs, one at a time, beating until combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then add in the dry ingredients. Mix just until combined. Add the sour cream and vanilla, and mix just until combined.
4. Divide the batter between the prepared cups. Bake until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.

Make the buttercream:

1. Place the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until very light, about 2 minutes. Add in the malted milk powder and mix another minute. Start adding in the powdered sugar, ½ cup at a time, until combined, then add in the vanilla. Continue to beat for a couple more minutes, until light and fluffy.
2. Frost the cupcakes as desired.*

Notes

cupcake recipe slightly adapted from Martha Stewart Cupcakes

*This recipe will make *just* enough frosting for all 30 cupcakes if used lightly. If you want to pile the frosting on the cupcakes, you may need 1½ times the buttercream.

Pulut Hitam Recipe

“Bubur Pulut Hitam“ refers to Black Glutinous Rice porridge. It is a very popular dessert in Singapore and Malaysia made with black glutinous rice, coconut milk and palm sugar. However, you will find variations to the dessert in other parts of South East Asia as well.

Ingredients:

• Black Glutinous Rice - 200 gm (soaked overnight preferably in water)
• Gula Melaka (Palm Sugar) - 125 gm
• Coconut Milk - 270 ml (Add more if you prefer a richer taste)
• Water - 6 cups
• Pandan Leaves (Screwpine leaves) - 3 pieces torn into halves and knotted

Instructions:

• Wash the rice thoroughly.
• Drain and place the rice in a saucepan filled with 5 cups of water and the knotted pandan leaves. The pandan leaves give fragrance and flavour to the dessert.
• Bring it to boil first and then lower the heat to let it simmer. Stir in between 6 minute intervals to make sure the rice does not stick to the pan and the water level does not reduce too much. You are aiming at a not too thick and at the same time not too thin consistency.
• Meanwhile, heat another saucepan, combine the gula melaka with the remaining 1 cup of water and stir on low heat till the sugar dissovles completely and you can see a thick syrup forming.
• Check on your black glutinous rice. It is cooked when the rice looks soft and plump.
• Add the gula melaka mixture and coconut milk and give it two stirs. Bubur Pulut Hitam ready to be served

Most Famous Desserts of the World

Afghanistan

1. Firnee Pudding is thickened with corn or rice starch, delicately flavored with rose water and sprinkled with pistachios and/or almonds.

Argentina

2.  Tartaletas de Mango is a pudding of manggoes and i cant find clearly about this desserts because of different language.

Australia

3.Rocky Road Desserts is a type of dessert which made of milk chocolate and marshmallow which is usually served in individual portions such as cupcake or in American cuisine, as ice cream flavor.

Austria

4. Linzer tortes hail from the city of Linz, Austria. There are many variations, but almost all include a very buttery base mostly comprised of ground nuts there are versions with almonds and hazelnut.

Brazil

5.Brigadeiro is made from condensed milk, powdered chocolate, butter and chocolate sprinkles to cover the outside layer. It can be cooked in the oven or the microwave, in the form of individual little balls. It can also be eaten straight from the pot once it is done cooking.

This e video that I found from youtube. it shown the top 10 most popular desserts.

Meyer Lemon Bar Recipe

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what we can do when we have extra lemons and it is wasteful if we did not use it wisely. I got an idea of how to use these extra lemons after watching this video. it is kind of easy and it is look delicious and its belong to our mouth!

Ingredients for Creamy Meyer Lemon Bars Crust:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 cup butter

Ingredients for Creamy Meyer Lemon Bars Filling:
1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
2 beaten eggs
1 TBSP lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 – 3/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

extra powdered sugar for dusting

Directions for Meyer Lemon Bars:
1) Zest and juice a lemon or two.
2) In a bowl combine flour, powdered sugar, salt and lemon zest.
3) Press mixture into a 9×9 baking pan lined with parchment paper.
4) Bake in a preheated 350 (F) oven for 15-20 minutes.
5) In a bowl combine sweetened condensed milk, beaten eggs, lemon zest, salt, baking powder, lemon juice and vanilla. Whisk well.
6) Pour lemon mixture over pre-baked crust and return to preheated 350 (F) oven for 20-25 minutes.
7) Allow to cool and lift lemon bars from pan using parchment paper.
8) Cut into bite sized pieces and dust with powdered sugar.
9) Refrigerate. Tastes best chilled.

Oreo Parfait Recipe

after sharing the recipe of Chocolate Truffle, i would like to share the recipe that for me it is easy and simple to make. what is the most important is, we can make it in a short time or make it together with children. 

Source: Google

Ingredients:

• Pudding: 1 kg Instant Pudding
• Mix 2 Cups of Milk
• 3 Oreo Cookies Crushed (Leave some big bits for crunch and texture)
• Whipping Cream:
• 1/2 Cup of Whipping Cream
• 1 Tsp of Icing Sugar

Servings: 

its will depend on the size of the cups you use to make the parfaits. This recipe make 4 shot glasses, with extra chocolate pudding on the side to eat as is or to make more parfaits.

So here, I do provide a video so we can understand better of how we are going to decorate it and whatnot.

The Origin of Birthday Cake

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In the 15th century, the bakeries in Germany conceived the idea of marketing cakes for customers’ birthdays, as well as for their weddings. They were mostly used for the birthdays to childrens and thus these celebrations were referred to as Kinderfest. It was during this time period that cakes began to be layered and laden with new ingredients in order to render them sweeter and less bread-like. These kinds of cakes were called Geburtstagorten by the Germans.

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The tradition of placing candles on cakes can be attributed to the Ancient Greeks, who baked cakes to honor Artemis, the goddess of the moon. The theory behind the practice was that the light from the candles made the cake itself glow like the moon. It is also believed that the smoke from the candles carried their prayers to the Gods. This tradition has survived to a certain extent today. We may not say a prayer or “doa” when we blow out birthday candles, but most of us do still make a wish.

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The earliest reference to the tradition of blowing out birthday candles was documented Switzerland in 1881. Researchers for the Folk-Lore Journal recorded various “superstitions” amongst the Swiss middle class. The following statement was recorded, ““A birthday-cake must have lighted candles arranged around it, one candle for each year of life. Before the cake is eaten the person whose birthday it is should blow out the candles one after another.”

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