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)

Buttermilk Raspberry Muffins

I had quite a lot of buttermilk left from the scones, so I used them to make these. They are from my new book, 1001 Cupcakes, Cookies & Other Tempting Treats by Susanna Tee, which was given to me by lovely Sister No.3.

They were quite nice and the texture was good too. I gave some to a friend who absolutely loved them! :-)

Buttermilk Scones

These scones are Nigella's recipe. You can find it in 'How to be a Domestic Goddess' and 'Kitchen'. They were really yummy. I went out and bought clotted cream, which cost a bomb (slight exaggeration there!) but oh, so worth it! I love scones with clotted cream! But if not available, I'll make do with whipped cream :-P

Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes

These buttermilk cupcakes are from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes book. I made them when my older son had a playdate and I think the kids really enjoyed them. But to be honest, I don't think I will make them again. Personally, I still prefer the fluffier vanilla cupcake recipe that we have. I know that some people prefer their cakes to be denser but not me. But to each his own :-)

Buttermilk Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Donno why my picture quality is so bad. Anyway, had made dinner last night so this was dessert. Saw the recipe on the Donna Hay's 50th Anniversary Issue and got really excited about it coz it looked so beautiful! In the picture, it was actually four layers of cakes but I didn't have two small round tins so I just made do with one big one. Heh....somehow the taste reminded me of the chinese "kai tan goh"(literal translation is still cake but somehow you have to say it in cantonese to understand what I am referring to). = P