Easter

Easter Chick Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 4 Comments

Hi guys!

I hope today’s blogpost can somehow make you forget about the horror in Brussels yesterday. Even if it’s just for one second. I really hope you can still find love and happiness in the little things in life.

And I do hope you’ll find my Easter Chick Cupcakes slightly amusing because they didn’t quite turn out the way I had hoped they would be…

The boyfriend always says my frosting looks like a pile of poo. It would have been great if that had been the case this time but alas. Meet my Easter Chicks:

Easter Chick Cupcakes

Oh well, you can still somewhat manage to see a chick in it AND I bet kids will still love them! In fact, I bet they can do it better xD

This is what they were supposed to look like:

Perfect Easter Chick Cupcakes

What we need:

Cupcakes

  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 200 g sugar
  • 125 g soft unsalted butter
  • 4 eggs

Frosting

  • Merengue frosting mix (I was a bit lazy)
  • yellow food colouring
  • Dark chocolate to make your chicks

I highly recommend you try the original frosting recipe because it’s waaaaaaay better to make these chicks. Find the original recipe here.

Don’t make these cupcakes too early before serving them because the frosting will drop…

BEFORE
BEFORE
AFTER
AFTER

How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Mix sugar and butter until both combine.
  3. Add the eggs and bled well.
  4. Sift the flour and mix until your batter is smooth.
  5. Fill your cupcake wrappes for 3/4th.
  6. Bake for about 22 minutes.

Frosting

Follow the nstructions on the mix or make the original recipe ;)

Let your creativity run free and make some Chicks!

Easter Chick Cupcake

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Easter Oreo Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 16 Comments

Hi guys!

I told you I’m in my Cupcake period, right :) These Oreo Cupcakes are so good, you’ll want it before, during and after Easter ;) The best part of this Cupcake probably is the Oreo/Milka chocolate egg on top. It’s soooo good!

What we need:

Cupcakes

  • 85 g self-raising flour
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 135 g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1,5 tbsp milk
  • 1/4th tsp vanilla extract
  • Cupcake wrappers

Frosting

  • 125 g butter
  • 250 g icing sugar
  • vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • piping bag
  • oreos
  • milka/oreo chocolate eggs
  • 1M piping tip

Easter Oreo Cupcakes

How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Sift your dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
  3. Add butter and eggs and mix until it all combines.
  4. Add milk and vanilla and mix until the batter is smooth.
  5. Put 1 oreo cookie on the bottom of each cupcake wrapper.
  6. Fill the wrapper for 3/4th with batter.
  7. Bake for about 22 minutes.

(This recipe is from Cupcake Jemma)

Frosting

  1. Beat the butter soft.
  2. Add half of the icing sugar and mix until it combines.
  3. Add the other half along with the milk and the vanilla extract.
  4. Beat long enough until the frosting becomes fluffy and well combined.
  5. Beat the some oreo cookies to make crumbs.
  6. Sift the crumbs. The crumbs that fall through the sifter are perfect for your frosting, the others will go on top.
  7. Blend the crumbs into your frosting, set the larger ones aside.
  8. Take a 1M piping tip and a piping bag.
  9. Pipe beautiful roses on your cupcake.
  10. Sprinkle the larger crumbs on top of the roses to make some sort of ‘nest’.
  11. Cut milka oreo chocolate eggs in half and put them on top.
Oreo Rose Cupcake
Oreo Cupcakes

Enjoy!

Easter Oreo Cupcakes with Milka Oreo Easter Egg

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 14 Comments

Hi guys!

Easter is coming close. I love Easter. The colours, the beginning of Spring and – of course – the chocolate :) When I was a kid, I used to go to my grandparents and look for eggs in their gardens. And at home as well of course. I LOVED it! I believed in it for a very – very – long time because of my parents. I guess they loved me believing in the stories because one year, they painted bunny paws on the floor to make me believe Easter Bunny had been inside our house to deliver the eggs to us. What great parents I have!

You may have noticed it before but I’m really into Cupcakes these days… So Easter is coming in the size of Cupcakes this year! I’m not planning on making any other Easter recipes besides Cupcakes :p They are just so cute and fit the holiday perfectly :)

So, on the outside it looks like a normal Salted Caramel Cupcake:

Salted Caramel Cupcakes

BUT on the inside hides a surprise!

Surprise inside Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcake

What do we need:

Cupcakes

  • 50 g cocoa powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 175 g self-raising flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 225 g caster sugar (fine sugar)
  • 175 g unsalted butter
  • 175 ml milk
  • Caramel easter eggs

Buttercream frosting

  • 250 g unsalted butter
  • 500 g icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • vanilla extract
  • salted caramel sauce
  • little easter chicks

Salted Caramel Easter Cupcakes

How to:

Cupcakes

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Put the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl.
  3. Add the softened butter and mix. It’s okay if the mixture remains a bit dry and does not become creamy yet.
  4. Add the milk to your eggs and whisk them so the eggs and the milk blend.
  5. Add the milk-egg mixture to the batter by slowly pooring it in whilst mixing on medium speed.
  6. Add vanilla extract and mix until the ingredients are completely combined.
  7. Fill your cupcake wrappers for 3/4th and bake for about 22 minutes.
  8. Let them cool and put a Caramel Easter egg in the center of every Cupcake.

Frosting

  1. Beat the butter soft.
  2. Add half of the icing sugar and mix until it combines.
  3. Add the other half along with the milk and the vanilla extract.
  4. Beat long enough until the frosting becomes fluffy and well combined.
  5. Add a little bit of salted caramel sauce and mix it in the frosting. Make sure the caramel sauce isn’t warm when you add it because that makes the frosting split.
  6. Take a 1M piping tip and a piping bag.
  7. Fill the bag and pipe a double rose => this piping tip makes a rose so you just add a second layer and top it off at the top.
  8. Drizzle some salted caramel sauce on top and add a little chick.

Salted Caramel Easter Surprise Cupcake

Original recipe from The Scran Line.

p.s. It’s International Women’s Day! Here’s to all women: take an extra Cupcake, you’ve earned it ;)

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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Top 5 Easter Dishes (Guest post)

/ sarahgiebens / 3 Comments

Hi guys!

Brussels Food Friends asked me to write a guest post for them and of course my answer was “YES!” :D
It is all about Easter (although that, unfortunately, is already long behind us)

I hope you all had a very nice Easter! Hopefully with lots of chocolate Easter eggs! Although that habit seems to be typical for Belgium and The Netherlands. Other countries apparently hide cooked eggs, painted in all sorts of colours.
No matter what kind of eggs you’ve had, I hope you’ve enjoyed them!

No chocolate or cooked eggs for this top 5 though!
These bloggers have prepared some great dishes for Easter! Let’s see what they ate.

Alexia from Must Be Yummie made a whole Easter Brunch! I love her decorations! And I love her bunny too!

Alexia

Sandra from Leeks and High Heels made lunch. And not just any kind of lunch! This Easter Lunch of hers is so perfect! Wish I had sat at her table…

Sandra

Lieziepeasy decided to make something delicious as a count-down to Easter! Make sure not to miss her incredible Pull-apart bread with lemon. It looks so good!

Lieziepeasy

“Easter weekend has been a weekend of over-eating”. Well, Lisa, I would have over-eaten myself too if I had been exposed to your delicious table! The meat, the pie, the donuts, … Oh my.

Lisa

Last but not least: Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes ‘de luxe’ with Nutella frosting from our beloved Hap & Tap is so Easter! Why? Because she used Nutella’s Easter jar for this recipe! They look so so good! YUMM!

Hap&Tap

I hope you liked these posts as much as I do and may they inspire you for next year’s Easter! :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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A very happy Easter thanks to Albert Heijn

/ sarahgiebens / 18 Comments

Hi guys!

I hope you all had a great Easter!

I always thought every country, or at least the European ones, had the same Easter traditions but that turns out not to be the case!
We collect chocolate eggs the Easter Bunny and the Easter Clocks have thrown in our gardens whereas others collect painted boiled eggs…
Am I happy to live in the land of chocolate ;)
Seriously, if there is one thing I can’t live without, it’s got to be chocolate!

BUT

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Chocolate mousse à la Easter

/ sarahgiebens / 2 Comments

Hi guys!

It’s almost Easter, so I had to do something with it.
I made some chocolate mousse and turned it into a perfect Easter surprise!
Believe me, it’s very easy ;)

I have a lot of books and a lot of recipes for chocolate mousse. Today I chose the recipe by Sofie Dumont.
She is a famous cook in Belgium and I really admire her. Yes, she is one of my inspirations.
(If you would ever read this, Sofie, I hope you like it :p)

So, let’s get started!
This recipe is for 4 people.
What do we need:
– Easter eggs (I chose two white ones and two milk chocolate ones)
– Little Easter eggs for the finishing touch
– 125 g dark chocolate
– 4 eggs
– 1 butter cube
– a pinch of salt
– piping bag

The first thing I did, was to take care of our Easter eggs. I carefully chopped off the heads with a knife. The eggs are suposed to stand straight so you might have to grate the eggs a little bit.
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Now, we can make our chocolate mousse.
We need to melt the dark chocolate with the butter. You can use the microwave or au bain-marie to do so.
Split the eggs. We add the egg yolk to the melted chocolate and stir it with a wooden spoon to avoid the eggs to set.
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Whip the egg white with a pinch of salt.
If your egg whites are stiff, carefully mix one or two spoons of them together with the melted chocolate.
Add the rest of the egg whites and mix it carefully together.
Now you can put it in the fridge for a couple of hours.

When the chocolate mousse is ready, fill the piping bag with it.
Now you can fill the Easter eggs and decorate them with a little Easter egg :)
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Enjoy your Easter surprise!
Have a delicious day <3

xxx Sarah