Italian Pepperoni Pizza Cupcake: an alternative to a boring lunchbox

 

Do you also hear sometimes from the children that they do not like sandwiches in the lunch box? Then, this creation is a perfect alternative. Quickly made ​​and so popular! This is a lunchcupcake that tastes heavenly of pepperoni pizza. Of course, the sky is the limit for you. Why not create a tacocupcake, leeks and baconcupcakes or whatever you can find to put in it.



I stir together 250 g flour (please enter a little oatmeal or roughmeal to give it a little more fiber) with 1 tablespoon of baking powder. So I cut up a tomato into small pieces, a handful of pepperoni into small pieces, pushing a garlic and mix into the flour mixture. Sprinkle in lots of oregano, paprikapowder, salt and pepper. Beat 2 eggs and mix with 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix about 250 g of grated cheese in flour mixture, mix the egg mixture along with 2 cups milk.

Then you get approximately such a dough which you can take into the forms with an icecreamspoon:

One spoon in each form, top with a pepperonislice and some grated cheese:

  Bake about 20 minutes in an oven of 190 degr. celsius.

Good luck and look forwards  to the nice smell of pizza cupcakes in the house!

Italian Meringue Lemon Cupcake: An Arabian inspired architecture with a fresh twist...

This little creation, I made for my wife's 35th birthday. There was, as you'll see in above post a lot of sweet frostings with white and dark chocolate so I thought that a fresh frosting would be nice to combine. So I made the base vanillacupcake-dough from lovely Manuela @ passionforbaking and gave it a lemon twist with lemon zine and lemon juice. Bake as usual 15 min in 200 degr. celsius

As frosting I made an Italian Meringue:

200 g sugar and 1 dl water.

Let it cook until it is a thicker clear syrup.

In the meantime, beat 125 g of eggwhite untill stiff. When stiff, add the syrup in a thin stream. Keep on beating untill the meringue is totally cold. When cold and stiff, I added juice of half a lemon and yellow food coloring. Put in a spraybag and make whatever you want. I used a round tip Wilton to decorate.

I will take some pictures in the future when making the meringue; just to illustrate. When ready decorated, put the cupcakes under a grill, 180 degr. untill light brown. This meringue is not as the french one. It will stay soft inside but keeps it form a loooong time. 

Isn't it a beauty?

 

It reminds me a bit of an Arabian building 

(or a Russian Orthodox Church)

ENJOY!

A white rose for democracy

On monday, the people of Norway will go to vote for a new local government. After the horrible things which happened in our country in the month of July, the rose became a symbol for democracy, a symbol for standing strong together and a symbol for serenity.
Today's creation is an honour to our wonderfull country and our democracy.
This little sweetheart is named: White chocolate frosting cupcake. You can see a very good explanation of the recipe, clicking on the link which will redirect you to Manuela's passionforbaking.com

Look-a-like

Have a nice weekend everyone and to all the Norwegians: Godt valg, bruk stemmeretten!

En rosa engel kom forbi...

En par uker siden var jeg på cupcakekurs hos Manuela fra "Passion4baking" . Hun var en rosa engel som kom forbi og lærte meg å lage de mest fantastiske cupcakes jeg noensinne har smakt.
Glad jeg er i mat var dette midt i blinken :-) og når mitt onkelbarn ba meg om å lage cupcakes til hennes jentekveld falt valget raskt på vaniljecupcakes med Angel Feather Icing. Hvor mer klissete jeg ble, hvor herligere Icingen ble. Jeg ba cupcakes veldig snill om å stå modell for meg sammen med min Angel Feather espresskopp. De to kunne ha vært gift :-)

Når det er en ting som er sikker, så er det at cupcakes gjør folk glad. Det er fantastisk å se smilet på barneansikter når de graver nesen dypt ned i icingen og lager "mmmh"-lyder. Tenk deg en morning hvor du søvntrøtt åpner øyene fordi du har hørt noen lyder på kjøkkenet. Når du snur hodet blir du servert en slik en:

Da kan vel ikke dagen gå feil, ikke sant?

"If the people have no bread, let them eat cake"

Marie Antoinette