Baking 101

I was bored one weekend and decided to give baking a try.  I found a very cute website www.bakehappy.net plus the recipes looked easy to follow. I practiced with the basic banana cupcake with Nutella frosting.  It was fairly easy to do, but I must add more Nutella to my frosting.  Medyo mahal siyang gawin, only because of the Nutella.  

I also stumbled upon the recipe of Magnolia Bakery basic buttercream cupcake + frosting.

Of course, I still have to perfect mine.  I improved on the self rising flour on my first try and on my second try, I found an actual self rising flour at City Super in Hongkong.  I still wound want to try baking it with the actual brands of cake flour and cake rising flour that Magnolia Bakery uses.  

Recipe for Cupcake:

1 1/4 cake flour

1 1/2 self rising flour

1 cup butter in room temperature (cut it into little one inch squares)

1/8 cup vanilla extract

1/4 cup whole milk

2 cups confectioners sugar

4 large eggs in room temperature

-mix eggs, milk and vanilla in a bowl

-mix cake flour, self rising flour and sugar in a bowl, use a mixer in the slowest mode

-add in the butter one square at a time

-mix in half of the egg/milk mix into the batter, use a mixer in medium mix mode

-mix in the last half of the egg/milk mix afterwards

-put into cupcake pan, makes 2 dozen cupcakes

Recipe for buttercream and cream cheese frosting:

1/2 cup butter in room temperature

1/2 cup cream cheese

2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

1 tablespoon whole milk

1 tablespoon vanilla

-cream butter and cream cheese with a hand mixer

-add in sugar one cup at a time

-mix in whole milk and vanilla

-add remaining sugar

-color your frosting with food coloring if preferred