Poppy Seeds Cake

It's rain ... and rain and rain, water has been pouring from the sky . Getting cold, getting windy, getting wet ... aah, after 2 more week spoiled by 80 F weather every day, now the temperature has drop to 50 F daily. It's pretty much of autumn weather . Anyway, i do my best to updating my blog while I'm busy sewing some clothes that my friend order , and I will never lost in touch with you, all.

Cream-Cheese Poppy Seeds Cake

Adapted from : Martha Stewart

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened, plus more for molds

1 1/2 cups cake flour (not self-rising),plus more for molds

1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

1 1/3 cups granulated sugar

3 large eggs, plus 3 large egg yolks

1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

3/4 cup whipped cream cheese, room temperature

3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, plus more for dusting

1 teaspoon poppy seeds

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter twelve 3 1/2-inch brioche molds or a standard 12-cup muffin tin. Dust with flour; tap out excess. Whisk flour and salt in a medium bowl. Put butter and granulated sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; cream on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs and yolks, 1 at a time. Add vanilla and 1 1/2 teaspoons water; mix until combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture; mix until just combined, scraping down sides as needed. Spoon 1/3 cup batter into each mold.

2.Beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar in the clean bowl of the electric mixer on low speed until creamy and combined. Spoon 1 tablespoon mixture onto batter in each mold; sprinkle with poppy seeds. Bake until a cake tester comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes; transfer cakes to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Banana Caramel Cupcake

My week run so slow ! well, at least that what I feel since my daughter sick, she got fever and coughing constantly for 3 days. Made me worry, and decided to take her to E.R on Monday evening (and came back home on Tuesday morning). Doctor said, that was pneumonia clinical , and she need to take breathing therapy. Thanks GOD, nothing major happen. And she is doing fine today :)

The funny was *thought it was not funny anymore* while we waiting at ER , I checked my Blackberry, and I found her pictures at ER from previous year. Oh, NO .. !! seems every year she go to ER :O - please, don't make it habit :( - I just want her become healthy child *knock knock the wood*

And after a week take care of her, thought that I need get relax a little bit, especially when i feel not well too. Taking a vitamins, a lot of fresh orange juice. Well, you know.. when mom get sick everything will messed up. Bake a simple cake for everybody, back to my book, sipping a cup hot tea, aah.. i feel much better.

Lets try this cake, this is not like your mom , cupcake *wink*

Banana-Caramel Cupcake

Ingredients:

A. Caramel

60g Castor sugar

1 tablespoon water

1 tablespoon hot water

2 tablespoons fresh heavy cream

B.Cake Batter

180g all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

115 g butter, at room temperature

110g cream cheese, at room temperature

115g caster sugar

3 eggs, separated

2 bananas, cut into thickness small chunk

Prepare your caramel first :

In a medium sauce pan, cook sugar and water with medium heat.

When the syrup turn into amber color, stir in hot water *please be careful in this step* , than add cream, stir well, set aside.

Cake batter :

Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Prepare your cupcake pan

Using an electric mixer, whip butter, cream cheese and 75g of sugar until the mixture turns pale and fluffy. Continue whipping the mixture, add in egg yolks one by one. With each addition, whip until the batter just combine.

In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until foamy. Continue to whisk and at the same time, add remaining 40g of sugar in 3 batches. Whip the egg white until stiff peak forms.

Using a rubber spatula, stir in 1/3 of egg white into cream cheese mixture , Sift flour and baking powder over the batter, stir until combine. Fold remaining egg, stir and make sure that the batter is well combined.

Stir in banana pieces and caramel. Scrape the batter into the baking pan.

Bake in pre-heated oven for 30 minutes or less, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake turns out clean.

for 15 - 18 cupcake

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Coke, Cup Cake, Cold ....

We had a very bad weather last week , heavy storm everyday for almost a week. Most schools , offices were closed, and most people went to grocery store to prepare the very bad scenario . That was a bad situation that I can remember during 6 years ... Thanks GOD, nothing happen in our area. Feel sad for some who became victims of crazy weather

But today, we have a very clear sky , warm enough to go out side just wearing a light jacket and feel almost like a spring until 7 days latter . I took my daughter to shopping mall today, oh NO .. !! I forgot is only 2 days before valentine's day. The mall so packed !! people busy shopping for valentine's Day. Well.. well..well, not me ! :D I don't really care about the event. But I still want to share the nice recipe that you can make for your beloved one for valentine's Day :D

COCA COLA CUPCAKE !!

Ingredients

Part A-

1 cup butter

1 cup coca cola

2 tbsp un-sweetened cocoa powder

2 cups tiny marshmallow

Part B-

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups granulate sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup buttermilk or sour milk *

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

Coca Cola Frosting

1/2 cup chopped pecan, toasted

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

In a small saucepan mix cola, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and add marshmallows. Place lid on saucepan and leave until marshmallows begin to melt. Stir well.

Mix flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Add buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well.
Combine cola mixture in the mixing bowl. Spoon cupcake batter into cupcake pan liners until they are 1/2 to 2/3 full.

Bake at 325 degrees for approximately 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool cupcakes completely before frosting with coca cola frosting and sprinkle with pecan.

Coca Cola Frosting

Ingredients

1/3 cup butter

3 3/4 cups powder sugar

2 tbsp un-sweetened cocoa

1/4 cup coca cola
2 tbsp powdered cocoa

Directions
In a medium mixing bowl, beat 1/3 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 second.

Slowly add 2 cups powdered sugar and 2 tbsp cocoa, beating until combined

Add 1/4 cola, beating well than gradually beat in 1 3/4 cups additional powdered sugar until combined.If necessary, beat in enough additional cola, 1 teaspoon at a time, to make frosting of spreadable consistency.

* To make 1/2 cup sour milk : place 1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar in a glass measuring cup. add enough milk to make 1/2 cup total liquid, still. Let Stand for 5 minute before using.

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Banana Cupcakes with Honey-Cinnamon Frosting

Another recipe you can make from left over banana ! Don't throw your ugly banana let's just make cupcake, and if you aware to loss weight like I do, you can bring some of your cupcake to your kid school and share with the teachers .. believe me they will love it .. See, you are not only loss weight but make people happy too *Let, me make confess this cupcake is so delicious... ^_^

Banana Cupcakes with Honey-Cinnamon Frosting

Recipe : Martha Stewart

Ingredients
Makes 12
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (about 4 ripe bananas), plus 1 whole banana, for garnish (optional)
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Make a well in center of flour mixture. In well, mix together butter, mashed bananas, eggs, and vanilla. Stir to incorporate flour mixture (do not over mix). Dividing evenly, spoon batter into muffin cups.

Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan; cool completely on a wire rack. Spread tops with Honey Cinnamon Frosting. Just before serving, peel and slice banana into rounds, and place one on each cupcake, if desired.

Honey Cinnamon Frosting
Ingredients
1 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 tablespoon honey
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions
In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat confectioners' sugar, unsalted butter, honey, and ground cinnamon until smooth, 4 to 5 minutes

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Zucchini Cupcake

My daughter turn 4yo! I can't believe it.. times pass so quick, she is grow so big, tall and talk a lot *just wonder, is that come from me or her's dad ? ^grin^.

She loves cupcake, it doesn't matter birthday or not , when i bake cupcake she always want me to put candle on. And than she will start to make a wish. Here is what she wished this time :

"I wish.. i wish with all my heart daddy will stop smoking"

Hahahahah.. I couldn't stop laughing ! She loves her's dad so much.

Back to the recipe *as always ! this is cooking site .. right ? :D I bake zucchini cupcake with peanut butter topping. The cake is perfect, so moist and delicious. Well, if you are not eat much of green veggie why don't you try to make it too. So, you still can say that you are eat veggie ! *LOL ... cheater ! *

I took a picture days ahead ! just because I still want to keep in touch with you guys while I'm on vacation.

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Choco-Zucchini Cupcake

Ingredients
Nonstick cooking spray (optional)
2 cups shredded zucchini (about 8 oz.)
3 eggs
2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup cooking oil
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder or Nesquick will work too
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 cup milk chocolate pieces (optional)
1 recipe Peanut Butter Frosting

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line twenty-four 2-1/2-inch muffin cups with double or single layer of paper bake cups or lightly coat with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.

In a large bowl stir together zucchini, eggs, granulated sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and, if desired, chocolate pieces; stir until combined. Spoon batter into prepared pans, filling cups about half full.

Bake about 25 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near centers comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire racks for 5 minutes. Remove from cups. Cool completely on racks. Frost with Peanut Butter Frosting. Makes: 24 cupcakes

Peanut Butter Frosting: In a medium mixing bowl beat 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/3 cup softened butter, 1 tablespoon milk, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gradually add 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar, beating until combined. If necessary, stir in 1 to 2 teaspoons additional milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. Makes about 1-1/2cups.

Stolen Images ..

if you noticed from blog pages lately, you will find that I always put 'Don't STEAL Images' under my food's picture. Yes, I had 2 times bad experiences, people steal my images and using it without permission.

I'm not professional photographer.. i took pictures as a hobby, with a lot of effort off course ! Cooking, baking, taking picture, cleaning the 'mess' after processing and next sit in front of computer uploading the picture, make a story before posting and so on.. For me this is a big deal ! Yeah ... as like others, I like to make my site (at least) 'eye catching' even i still don't know how to do the right thing but at least I try. And when I (we) find it that ours picture being stolen, I'm not surprise if you will get mad too.. especially if you can't find the solution, and someone out there take benefits from 'our works' . I tell you, that was SUCK !!! *apologize for my language*

I kind of desperate, and finally i decided to 'closed' my others cooking site.

Oh NO .. !! why still many people do that ? :( Being cheater is not Cool ..

Do I stop updating my blog ? well.. i tell you, blogging is still make me happy .. I become addicted to blogging.. and that experience won't stop me but make me more carefully and hope you will never get the same experience like mine.

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Mocha Muffins

250 gr all purpose flour

1 tbsp baking powder

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa

pinch of salt

115 gr butter, melted

150 gr raw sugar

1 large egg, beaten

110 ml milk

1 tsp almond extract

2 tbsp strong coffee

1 tbsp instant coffee

115 gr semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/3 cup raisins

Cocoa Topping :

3 tbsp raw sugar

1 tbsp un-sweetened cocoa

1 tsp all spice or substitute with 1 tsp cinnamon + 1 tsp nutmeg

Method :

Line 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. Sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt into a large mixing bowl.

In separate large bowl, cream the butter and raw sugar together then stir in the beaten egg. Pour in the milk, almond extract, and the coffee, then add the coffee powder, chocolate chips, and raisin and gently mix together.

Add the raisin mixture to the flour mixture and gently stir together until just combined. Do not over stir the batter - its fine for it to be a little lumpy.

Divide the muffin batter evenly among the 12 cups in the muffin pan or the paper liner (they should be about two-thirds full)

To make the topping: place the raw sugar in a bowl , add the cocoa and allspice, and mix together well. Sprinkle the topping over the muffins, then transfer to a preheated oven 350 F and bake for 20 minutes, or until risen and golden.

Remove the muffins from the oven and serve warm, or place them on a cooling rack and let cool.

Update : Too many picture being stolen, too many people doesn't have etiquette anymore, too many people doesn't care with our effort and take advantage from our work, some of my Indonesian friend create a new group on Face book . Support them to against piracy ! and hope no more stolen picture

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