Ok take two with carrot cake cupcakes. This time mini cupcakes for my colleagues baby shower. I have coloured the icing pink because she is having a girl using the beetroot trick. This time I experimented with adding half cup extra flour to the recipe and then adding 3/4 cup of flour and I couldn't tell the difference. I think adding a full extra cup extra would be too much. I then sprinkled cinnamon on top because the spices really didn't come through in mini size. I cooked them for about 13-15 minutes.
I then made mini lemon macadamia cupcakes cupcakes with white choc chips, also from VCTOTW. The white choc chips really blended well with the other two flavours, maybe too well in that the flavour didn't stand out enough for me.
Here they are, side by side. I put walnut pieces on the carrot cake ones and macadamia pieces on the lemon ones so you can tell them apart.
The stupid automatic flash whitens out the pink a little, but I'll get a new camera soon and toss away my broken one, I promise!It's exhausting making mini cupcakes, they take forever to put into the tiny liners and then even more time to put tiny bits of icing on them and I really think flavour wise they are not as good, but they do look cute.
Speaking of tiny cupcakes, I went into a House shop the other day and noticed they had pastal cupcake liners in two small sizes, I asked the woman who worked there which ones fit into the mini muffins trays and she said they both do. So I got the slightly bigger ones and they don't fit. Bitch!
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I'm not baking for a while, I need a rest and besides I have to focus all of my attention on Mr T's permanent residency application, got it takes a lot of prove that we are in a real relationship, you would think that considering this is our 3rd immigration application we would be experts at it and it would be easy, but there are lots of little things like forgetting to keep the very few bits of mail that has been send to both of our names and forgetting to keep receipts from joint travel and why are there hardly any pics with Mr T and I and our friends or family? I have plenty of pics of just the two of us or him with others or me with others. If you are a friend who has pics of me and him and you, please email them to me or facebook me. At least this round doesn't cost thousands of dollars.
Oh yeah and I've also got to start my thesis again.
Hmmm, baking does sound like a better idea though :-)
2 comments:
You'll have to use the too-big small-cupcake liners for vegan truffles or something else sweet.
Good luck with the residency application. Andy and I are planning to do one in about a year, but I've already downloaded the paperwork and tried to gather some things... but I have the same problem you do--no pictures of the two of us in public! We only have the hold-the-camera-at-arms-length photos from hikes or travel, but not with actual friends. Is this your 2-year confirmation that you're still a couple? Good luck anyways!
God you are organised so it will porbably be a little easier, we left ours til the last minute. Yes it's the 2 year confirmation that we are still a couple!
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