Too easy!

Here's an Aussie phrase I've learnt - "Too easy"!

"Can you pass me the salt?" "Too easy!"
"Can you get me the documents by 5pm?" "Too easy!"

Well - here's something that is really "too easy", so easy I don't know why I've never thought of making it for a dessert - instead I'd buy the frozen ones!

Apple Crumble!

All you need is flour, sugar and butter for the crumble, and Granny Smith apples, demerara sugar, cinnamon stick and ginger powder for the apples, and voila! Apple crumble!

Too easy!

Eggless Cupcakes

I have been on the roll, since I bought my new mixer (more on that in another post). Made some eggless cupcakes with pink lemon frosting for a little 3yo girl who has an egg-allergy. I used buttermilk instead of almond milk + apple cider vinegar. I personally didn't fancy them a whole lot (except for the lemon frosting - yumm!), but people have commented that they were very moist and the cupcakes disappeared like hot cakes (when I brought the rest in to work the next day).

Eggless buttermilk cupcakes with pink lemon frosting

The little birthday girl's mum and aunt spent hours making her a Hello Kitty cake (with whom she is current obsessed); however she was not able to eat any of it. The picture below is of the amazing effort mum and aunt put in, surrounded by my eggless cupcakes:

Happy 3rd birthday, little Amelia!

Red Velvet cupcakes

And so, I finally had the opportunity to try and make my first ever batch of red velvet cupcakes. A tiniest bit undercooked, but overall all was well. I was very keen to try these ones from the Hummingbird Bakery book, despite the wee fact that I actually never favour them. It was really a case of doing it for the sake of doing it!

A work colleague is leaving the organisation and so I thought I'd make cupcakes for the pot-luck farewell lunch tomorrow. I doubled the recipe so Husband could take some to work as well (I always say it is so that his colleagues will remind him what an awesome wife I am while he is at work! :P) Even though it was easily 1am by then (it's 1.42am now), I had so much fun writing stuff on his cupcakes for his workmates I couldn't stop. Thought it'd be amusing to have whimsical words on the cupcakes, seeing that everyone at work must be ridiculously stressed now (Husband had come home from work at 11pm)