It’s Time To Vote Again!!!!

Hello everyone! Well as you know, its Monday and that means it’s time for you to start voting for your favorite Cupcake recipe!!

I had 5 entries for this fortnightly challenge - Cupcakes.

Firstly we have 7 year old Beth:

Beth baked Vanilla Topped Cupcakes! I really like them, because they are small, and I love the pink topping with the sugar crystals!

Then we have 9 year old Gabi:

Gabi baked Yummy Sponge Cupcakes with white icing and a red cherry on top! The red and white looks so pretty, as well as the polkadots serviettes!

Next was Melissa, from New Zealand:

Melissa baked Vanilla Frosted Cupcakes. I love the Writing gel and “Hundreds and Thousands” on top! So colourful!

Then Kelly-Anne joined in with:

Butterfly Cupcakes!! This is a beautiful cupcake, with cream on the wings and sugar crystals. Love it!

And last buy definitely not least, Nancy:

She baked Chocolate cupcakes with crumbled flake and half a cherry on top!

They look so yummy! Great job Nancy!!

Thank you so much Beth, Gabi, Melissa, Kelly and Nancy for joining my baking challenge!

Now all you have to do is advertise it. So people can vote for you! As you know, you may advertise it anywhere you like.

To all my blog readers, please will you take a few minutes and vote for one of these five entries! You don’t have to enter to vote. It will really be appreciated!

 All you have to do, to vote is:

1 Go to the top of my blog,

2 Just under my blog header, on your right, is a voting poll with all the entries.

3 Next to each name is a little white circle

4 Click on the one next to the name of the entry you like best.

5 Then click on the button that says “vote”.

You have voted!

Good luck everyone 

Baking Greetings!

Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #3................

Hello all my blog friends! 

It’s Tuesday and time for a new Baking Fun Challenge!

You still have time to vote for the winner of the chocolate challenge.

Now on to this fortnightly challenge.............

Can you guess? 

Cup Cakes!!

Any kind of cup cake you like! Big ones small ones, decorated anyway you like.

Here is my recipe:

Mini Chiffon Cup Cakes!!

 I made very small cupcakes. This size works especially well for a birthday party, since big cupcakes are always to much for little ones and they only eat the icing.

This recipe makes about 4 dozen mini cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour or 2 1/4 cups cake flour.

1 tablespoon baking powder 

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups sugar 

5 egg yolks

1/2 cup orange juice or water 

1/2 cup vegetable oil

8 egg whites 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract  

1/2 teaspoon cream of tarter 

Topping:

150g (300ml) icing sugar

2 tablespoons hot water

food coloring (the colors you want)

1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F/ 176 degrees C.

2) In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and 1 cup of sugar.

3) In another bowl stir together the egg yolks, orange juice/water and oil.

4) Beat the egg whites, vanilla and cream of tartar on high speed with a stand mixer for about 2 minutes or with a handheld mixer for about 8 minutes or until medium peaks form. 

5) Add the remaining sugar and beat for about another 1 to 2 minutes more or until stiff peaks form.

6) Sift the dry ingredients over the egg whites mixture, about one forth at a time, folding with a rubber spatula after each addition until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.

7) Place about one-forth of the egg white mixture in a bowl with the egg yolks mixture and stir until well combined.

8) Fold this egg yolk mixture into the egg white mixture with a rubber spatula. 

9) Put your cupcake holders in little muffin pans (this way the cupcake holders keep it’s shape, after it were filled with the batter).

10) Transfer the batter to your little cupcake holders. 

11) Bake for about 25 minutes or until light brown and let cool.

Now for the decoration:

1) Sift the icing sugar in a deep bowl. 

2) Add the hot water and stir quickly.

3) Space a few drops of food coloring, in the icing (not on the same spot). You can add only one color or two.

4) Take the back side of a soon and stir it in the icing, like this: 

Don’t stir too much. 

5) Take a cup cake and dip it up-side-down in the icing sugar.

6) Lift it out, let it drip off a little and then turn around. Here I used blue and yellow food coloring. So it had three colors (yellow and blue makes green)

Add some decorations.

I also made red and blue icing. 

There you are! What a cute little cupcake! Now it is your turn to show me your cupcakes with the recipe! 

You may also use my recipe and show us an interesting decorating technique Any cupcake you like!!

Rules:

-You can link-up using your blog or if you don’t have a blog, e-mail your entry to me.

-Create a post on your blog with the recipe and at least one picture of the finished product.

or

e-mail the recipe, with at least one picture of the finished product and I will enter your recipe in the challenge (remember to come back and check out your entry).

-One recipe per person/blog please.

-You are allowed to have help with your baking.

-Please use the blue frog below to enter. Be sure to add the link to your direct blog posting/recipe and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier to find your recipe. 

-Please comment on at least 3 other entries.

-Each recipe needs to be linked back to Heidi’s Crafts or has to have the button in the post.

-This is a fortnightly challenge, you have two weeks to enter.

-Entries need to be linked up by Monday 22 for this Cup Cakes challenge.

-After the challenge has closed, I will announce the entries in a separate posting and you will be able to vote for your favourite recipe.

-You are all allowed to advertise anywhere you like for people to vote for you, on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

-I will have a personalized blinkie, specially for the Winner.

-Age doesn’t matter, from little girls to grandmas are welcome to enter!

-The aim of the challenge is to encourage mothers and grandmas with their girls to enjoy making food in the kitchen, to share recipes, find new ones and have lots of fun together!