Happy Christmas Eve to all those in blogasphere. An in honour of the date here are my third day of Christmas cakes.
Very handy, as these was also do as a Cupcake Hero entry. It's been ages since I've done the CCH thing, but this month it's white chocolate so these will work for that too.
The cakes themselves are from my mate JC and are one of the best cake mixes you can use (and I'm not really a chocolate fan)
100g dark cooking chocolate
100ml milk
1/4 cup cocoa powder
100g butter, softened
115g (1/2 cup) sugar
2 eggs
150g self raising flour, sifted
Put the chocolate, the milk and cocoa powder in a double boiler and slowly heat until the chocolate has melted. Then take off the heat and allow to cool a little.
Meanwhile cream the butter and sugar. Then add the eggs one at a time, combining each one well. Then mix in the chocolate mix and finally fold the flour through with a metal spoon.
Bake in lined cupcake trays for about 18-20 minutes in a 180 degree oven.
.... next I did a white chocolate and peppermint icing.
melt 160g white chocolate with 60g butter. Let it cool for a little then stir through 120g of sour cream, 260g of sifted icing sugar and a few drops of peppermint essence.
Luckily I had bought some bulls eyes for something else and they hadn't been eaten, so I smashed them up and sprinkled them on top. The photo above is taken in my carrier tray before I took them to work for consumption, but the broken lollies made them all sparkly and lovely.
So have a great day tomorrow, regardless of where you are, or what you happen to do on 25 December. Stay safe and eat too much.
1 comment:
Thanks for your visit to my site and your comments! Nice to 'meet' another Adelaide blogger. I'll have to come back next time I need a pudding idea! Oh, and re the Boxing Day Test - it's exactly my thing. I love cricket.
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