Cupcakes

The Original Red Velvet Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 27 Comments

Hi guys!

Who doesn’t love Red Velvet Cupcakes? In 2014, I made some Red Velvets but with a mascarpone-cream frosting. Now I made them with their ‘signature’ cream cheese butter frosting. I didn’t really know what to expect since I never manage to make delicious buttercream frostings. They just taste too much like butter…

But these Red Velvets with their original frosting are AMAZING! I don’t think I’ll ever make my ‘old’ frosting again. I had to keep myself from eating the frosting before putting it on my cupcakes :o Is that bad?

I know it sounds silly but I’m in love with these ‘original’ Red Velvet Cupcakes ;)

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What we need:

Cupcakes

  • 235 g self-raising flour
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 250 g sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 270 g soft unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons of buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon of red food colouring (powder or paste)
  • Cupcake wrappers
  • Cupcake trays

Frosting

  • 150 g soft unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 240 g cream cheese
  • 840 g icing sugar
  • Piping tip
  • Piping bag

 

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How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and salt in your mixer.
  3. Add the butter and the eggs.
  4. Mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Combine buttermilk, food colouring and vanilla extract and poor it in the batter.
  6. Mix until the batter gets a nice red colour.
  7. Finish the batter by hand because you don’t want to overmix it.
  8. Place the cupcake wrappers in the cupcake trays.
  9. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 2/3th and bake them for about 22 minutes.

Frosting

  1. Put butter, cream cheese and half of the icing sugar in the mixer.
  2. Mix on minimum speed until it combines, then mix at medium to high speed.
  3. Add the other half of the icing sugar.
  4. Mix until the frosting gets stiff and pale. Don’t make it too stiff though.
  5. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting them.
  6. Put the piping tip in your piping bag and frost! :D

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I’ve also found a new YouTube channel to share with you because I absolutely LOVE Jemma from the London based bakery Crumbs and Doillies. (I HAVE to get to London soon..) She made these Red Velvets and her video is just awesome! I hope you enjoy :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Carnival Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 12 Comments

Hi guys!

It’s Carnival or Mardi Gras today! Unfortunately that does not mean funny costumes for me… although I really think they should introduce that into working life as well. Why let the kids have all the fun?

But we adults have the ability to make food! Or at least some of us ;) And that’s exactly what I did :) I used my favorite source in the world – Pinterest – and found the perfect kind of cupcakes for Mardi Gras: Funfetti Cupcakes! You know, the ones with the colourful dots inside the cake. But I guess I didn’t use the right ingredient or not enough of it because there are no colourful dots to be found in my cupcakes :( Oh well, next time :)

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Although the colourful dots were missing, it was still super delicious and fun to look at!

What we need:

  • 220 g butter
  • 220 g self-raising flour
  • 220 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • +- 120 g powder sugar
  • 400 ml heavy cream
  • 500 g mascarpone
  • cupcake wrappers
  • edible confetti
  • piping bag + piping tip

Mardi Gras Cupcakes

How to:

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Mix together butter and sugar.
  3. Add the eggs and mix until the batter becomes smooth.
  4. Sift the flour and mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Add a bunch of confetti and blend well.
  6. Place the cupcake wrappers in the mold. Fill them for 3/4th with batter.
  7. Bake for about 25 minutes.
  8. Whip up the cream and set aside.
  9. Mix mascarpone and powder sugar.
  10. Gently blend in the whipped cream, using a spatula.
  11. Put a piping tip in the piping bag and fill the bag with frosting.
  12. Frost the cupcakes and add as much sprinkles as you like :)
  13. CELEBRATE!

Carnival Cupcakes

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Your 9 Sarah’s Little Kitchen Favorites

/ sarahgiebens / 4 Comments

Hi guys!

Sadly, Christmas is over. You’re probably just getting over that indigestion, aren’t you :p Hurry up because New Year is right around the corner! And that mostly means: more eating & drinking! Hooray!

Since at its end, I thought it’d be a good time to share with you your year here on Sarah’s Little Kitchen :)

We’ll start from number 9 to the winning number 1. Let’s see what you guys loved most.

#9: Raspberry Brownies

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#8: Nutella Brownies

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#7: Chunky Monkey Brownies

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#6: Canelés de Bordeaux

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#5: Spicy Chai Latté Brownies

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#4: Speculoos Blondies

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#3: Nerdy Nummies Chocolate Chip Cookies

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#2: Oreo Cupcakes

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#1: Oreo Cheesecake

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Djeez guys! I had no idea you loved brownies so much :o Well, obviously you like them but I’d never thought almost every brownie recipe I’ve made would end up in the Best 9 Of 2015 xD And of course, nothing can beat Oreo’s! :D

My personal favorite: these yummy Nutella Cupcakes I made for my Dad’s birthday :)

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I hope you had a great 2015 and may 2016 be even better! Happy New Year!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Halloween Cinnamon Spider Web Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 9 Comments

Hi guys!

Halloween is coming and that calls for some Spider Web Cupcakes! I’ve seen some amazing Halloween recipes in the last few weeks and I realized I couldn’t wait much longer to come up with some Halloween recipes myself :)

Although we don’t celebrate Halloween that much, we did get some Halloween spirits yesterday with our little Halloween pumpkin light… It almost turned out in a burning table so I don’t think I’ll light that thing again xD

What didn’t get burned were these yummy Halloween Cinnamon Spider Cupcakes! :D

Halloween Spider Web Cupcakes

What we need:

  • 220 g sugar
  • 220 g butter
  • 220 g self-raising flour
  • 4 eggs
  • Cinnamon
  • 250 g mascarpone or cream cheese
  • 250 ml whipping cream
  • Powder sugar
  • 1/2 tablet chocolate
  • Halloween Cupcake wrappers
  • Baking tin
  • piping bag
  • piping tip

Halloween Spider Web Cupcake Recipe

How to:

  1. Mix together butter and sugar
  2. Add the eggs and mix until the batter is smooth
  3. Sift the flour and blend well
  4. Add as much cinnamon as you like
  5. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 3/4
  6. Bake the cupcakes for about 25 minutes at 180°C
  7. Let the cupcakes cool completely before topping them with our frosting

Halloween Cinnamon Spider Web Cupcake Recipe

Let’s make the frosting while our cupcakes cool:

  1. Whip the cream
  2. Add mascarpone and the amount of powder sugar you want
  3. Add cinnamon and mix it all together
  4. Put the frosting in a piping bag with a tip of your choice. I used tip #31
  5. Pipe the frosting on the cupcakes

Time for our spider webs!

  1. Melt the chocolate and put it in a piping bag.
  2. Cut just a little piece off.
  3. Make spider webs on a sheet of baking paper. I made circles with a glass and a pencil to get +- the same size of spider webs.
  4. Let the chocolate webs cool in the fridge. Don’t take them out before they are completely hard!
  5. Place the spider webs on your cupcakes

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Enjoy your cute little Halloween Spider Webs Cupcakes! :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Oreo Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 27 Comments

Hi guys!

Why did it took me so long to make these delicious Cupcakes? I have NO idea!
Really, I don’t.

So I’m not planning on keeping these lovely babies away from you. Isn’t that sweet ;)
And yes, they carry a lot of calories with them, just the way we like it!

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What we need for 10 cupcakes:

  • 29 Oreo’s
  • 120 g self-raising flour
  • 150 g sugar
  • 30 g cocoa powder
  • 10 g vanilla sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 75 ml milk
  • 50 ml hot water
  • 250 ml whipping cream (>35%)
  • 10 cupcake wrappers
  • cupcake baking tin

Oreo Cupcakes

How to:

  1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees centigrade.
  2. Put the wrappers in the baking tin. Place 1 Oreo in each cupcake wrapper.
  3. Put the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
  4. Mix together the egg and the milk.
  5. Mix in the dry ingredients.
  6. Slowly add the water to the batter.
  7. Fill the cupcake wrappers for 3/4.
  8. Bake the cupcakes for about 20 minutes.
  9. If you hear the ‘ping’, the cupcakes are done ;) Use a sharp knife to check if they’re really ready.

Let’s make our frosting while waiting until the Oreo Cupcakes cool.

  1. Crush +- 9 Oreo’s
  2. Whip the whipping cream.
  3. Gently mix in the crushed Oreo’s.
  4. Put the frosting on our cooled Cupcakes. You can use a piping bag or just a spatula to make little heaps on top of them.

Enjoy these delicious Oreo Cupcakes!

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Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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June Favourites

/ sarahgiebens / 5 Comments

Hi guys!

June has been thrown out of the window! That means it’s time to wrap it all up and make a new Favourites post! Yay :D

As usual, it was hard to pick five favourites! I am still amazed by all the things I’ve seen, every single month :)

June was a month full of cupcakes, chocolate, fruits and rice pudding! You can see that in my June Favourites :p

Let’s get started!

#1: Mini Pink Lemonade Cupcakes 

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Christmas Tree Cupcakes with Fluffy Cinnamon Frosting

/ sarahgiebens / 35 Comments

Hi guys!

What a mouth full, isn’t it? :p
The full title actually is: Vanilla Christmas Tree Cupcakes with fluffy Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting.
Try saying that five times in a row!

I know Christmas is already behind us, sadly. But I still wanted to share my Christmas Trees with you!
This frosting is the fluffiest, most delicious and subtle frosting I’ve ever had or made!
It’s got this subtle taste of cinnamon in it which makes it perfect for all ages! And even for people who aren’t such Cinnamon fans ;)

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Red Devils Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 10 Comments

Hi guys!

Belgium did a very good job in the World Cup yesterday! 2- Algeria!!
The whole country celebrated and so did my dad and I ;)
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Let’s hope the Belgian Red Devils can keep up the good work :D

When I said ‘the whole country celebrated’, I really meant the WHOLE country!
Even the youngest citizens want to cheer for Belgium.
So it doens’t come as a surprise that my boyfriend’s nephew (Alexander) wanted Red Devils Cupcakes for his birthday!
I wanted them to say ‘Belgium’ and, of course, ‘Red Devils’. You’ll see the Belgian flag and the logo of the Red Devils on the cupcakes :)
I hope Alexander and his friends will like them :)
The cupcakes are my vanilla cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting. You can find the recipe here.
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I went to visit my Aunt today. I have two nieces… One is having her birthday party at school next week…
Oh yes, Red Devils Cupcakes all over again!

Have a delicious day! (Or night in my case…) <3
xxx Sarah

Fiesta Friday #19: Coffee Biscuit Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 54 Comments

Woohoo! It’s Friday again! That means my finals are OVER :D
Oh well, I have French on Tuesday but that won’t cause any problem.

I promised the recipe for my coffee biscuit cupcakes and I thought it’s a great dessert to bring at the party :) So here it is!
It was actually my boyfriend who came up with this idea… Wait, what?! I’m the one who makes the sweets…
Well, not this time apparently…
Anyway, I love this recipe because I can easily adapt it to my own taste :) You’ll figure out why ;)
Oh, so I DID ‘make’ this recipe…

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What do we need (+/- 16 cupcakes):
– 22og butter
– 220g cristal sugar
– 220g self-raising flour
– 4 eggs
– biscuits
– cupcake wrappers
– cupcake tin

How to:
First, mix the butter with the sugar until the sugar is completely absorbed.
Then, add the eggs while mixing. Add the flour and mix it all together until it’s a homogeneous mass.
Crush the biscuits to make crumble. Add as many as you like but be careful not to overdo it. I usually use 4 spoons of biscuit cumble.
Fill the wrappers with 2/3 of batter and put them in the oven for about 25 minutes on 180 degrees centigrade.
When they’re done, check by pushing your finger gently on the cupcakes. If they retake their original form, they are done :)

While our cupcakes cool, we can make the frosting.

What do we need:
– 500g cream cheese
– 350ml cream (40% fat)
– 125 g powder sugar (You can choose the amount: some like it sweet, some like it sweeter ;) )
– coffee powder

How to:
Whip the cream. Mix the cream cheese and the powder sugar together.
Add the whipped cream to the cream cheese and powder sugar. Mix it all together very gently.
Add the coffee powder. I usually use 2 spoons.
You can choose the strenght. As I’ve said earlier in this post, it’s competely adaptable :)
With my 2 spoons, you’ll get that nice mokka-coffee flavour.
If you want to have a real coffee coffee feeling, just add a little extra.
Tip: taste after every spoon! This way, you’ll always know how the frosting tastes and then you can decide if you want to add or not.

Don’t start frosting the cupcakes until they’re completely cooled. If you do, the frosting will melt and that’s not what we want, do we.
You can choose any decorating tip you like to frost your cupcakes. I really like #2D. It’s the tip which makes roses. Oh well, if you do it properly…
I’m still learning though.

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The cupcakes are frosted so I’d say: Take a bite!

Have a delicious day and a wonderful Fiesta Friday! <3
xxx Sarah

p.s. If you see my mom, hide the cupcakes or there won’t be any left for you guys…

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The one thing that started it all…

/ sarahgiebens / 11 Comments

Oh my god. I should be so ashamed of myself!
Here I am, sharing my (great) recipes with you. But I never even told you what the first thing I baked was!

Well, cupcakes!

It was my love for cupcakes that started my passion for baking.

Why I love them so much?
Cupcakes are delicious, which you obviously all know.
You can be as creative as you want with them!
Do you want colours? Go ahead!
Do you want sprinkles? Go ahead!
Or do you want fancy decorations? Go ahead!GO CRAZY!

Baking cupcakes works like some sort of therapy for me. I love to make decorations (I’m not a pro though)
I can do it for hours.

Last summer, I made some bees

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I was so flattered when my aunt asked me to make cupcakes for her wedding!

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My mom loves coffee and biscuit. So on Mother’s Day, I made her some cupcakes with both ingredients.
I’ll share the recipe in a next blog post ;)

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Now you know where my passion began :)

Have a delicious day! <3

xxx Sarah