Thursday, 10 January 2013

A cupcake made for the God's

Today is boxing day and we are hosting a dinner party for the family. I wanted to make an amazing dessert or cupcake so I decided to do a cupcake, but not just any cupcake, a Ferrero Rochet cupcake! I saw it on Pintrest but didn't really find a recipe I liked so I just used a family heirloom recipe and made up my own icing and they turned out great.

For the cake recipe I used my Great Grandma Skamahorn's chocolate cake recipe which is like 100 years old.

Chocolate cake:

Ingredients:

  •  3 Cups of Flour
  • 2 Cups of Sugar
  • 2 tsps of Baking Powder
  • 2 tsps of Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Cup of Cocoa
  • 3/4 Cup of Butter
  • 2 Cups of Hot Water
  • 2 tsps of Vanilla
  • 3 Tblsp of Vinegar

1) Pre heat oven to 350F. Stir together the first 5 ingredients
2) Melt the butter and water together, let cool, add vinegar and vanilla.
3) Put eggs on top of dry ingredients, then add liquid ingredients and stir. 
4) Place in a cake pan, but I put it in 24 muffin tins that were lined.
5) Bake for 25 mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.



Chocolate Nutella Butter Cream Icing:

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 Cup plus 1 Tblsp of Shortening
  • 1/4 Cup plus 1 Tblsp of Butter
  • 1/4 Cup of Nutella 
  • 2-3 Cups of Icing Sugar
  • 1 Tblsp of Milk
1) Cream shortening and butter together, add Nutella and mix well.
2) Add milk and then icing sugar, if you want the icing to be stiffer add more icing sugar and if you want it runnier don't add as much.

Then pipe the icing on the completely cooled cupcakes, then top them with a Ferrero Rochet and then enjoy!





2 comments:

  1. My extra 5 pounds says "yum....and totally worth it"

    Or at least that is what I think they would say if I could have tried one.

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    1. Haha yeah I know! I was like so worth it but ended up doing a no sugar thing for a week after the holidays because of all the sweets!

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