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Easter Oreo Cupcakes

/ sarahgiebens / 14 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.
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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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Devil’s Food Cake

/ sarahgiebens / 25 Comments

Hi guys!

If you love chocolate, this might become your FAVORITE dessert! You won’t be able to live without it, you’ll dream about it, you’ll want it every day all day long. Even for breakfast… It’s the Devil’s Food Cake!

I never really knew why they called it like that. Oh boy, how stupid could I be. It is so delicious it becomes evil. I’m not kidding!

The recipe I used is from – who else could it be – Laura in the Kitchen. Did I meantion how easy this recipe is?

Devils Food Cake

What do we need:

  • 300 g self-raising flour
  • 75 g cocoa powder
  • 400 g sugar
  • 240 g butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 80 ml milk
  • 2 cups of coffee
  • pinch of salt
  • 320 ml cream
  • 420 g dark chocolate
  • 2 9 inch pans

Devils Food Cake Recipe

How to:

First we make the frosting

  1. Heat the cream. Don’t let it boil.
  2. Chop the chocolate.
  3. Poor the cream over the chocolate and let it sit for a few minutes.
  4. Stir the chocolate-cream mixture until it becomes a dark and rich ganache.
  5. Set aside for a couple of hours until it gets the right structure.

Now for the cake

  1. Preheat the oven at 180°C.
  2. Mix together butter and sugar.
  3. Put the milk and the coffee in the saucepan you used to heat the cream and heat it.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla extract to the butter-sugar mixture.
  5. Put flour, cocoa powder and salt in one bowl and blend a bit.
  6. Put half of your dry ingredients in the mixer, together with half of your coffee-milk mixture.
  7. Mix until it’s combined.
  8. Put the other half of the dry ingredients and coffee-milk mixture in the mixer.
  9. mix until your batter is smooth. Don’t worry if the batter is very thin and liquid, that’s normal :)
  10. Divide the batter over 2 9 inch pans.
  11. Bake for 30 – 35 minutes.
  12. Let the cake cool completely.

Let’s build ourselves a cake!

  1. Put frosting on the bottom layer.
  2. Stack the 2nd cake on top.
  3. Frost the whole cake.
  4. EAT THE CAKE!

Devils Food Cake by Laura in the Kitchen

Here’s the video if you want to bake along with Laura

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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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 :)

Carnaval Cupcakes

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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No Bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart

/ sarahgiebens / 16 Comments

Hi guys!

The recipe I’ve got for you today is not just good. It’s awesome!
Delicious and a little bit decadent. Just the way we like it ;)
Oh and super easy too!

I was scrolling up and down Pinterest because I really really wanted to bake make something. You know that feeling? I only had two eggs so a cake was not possible. Hmmm… There it was! I saw this gorgeous, delicious and slightly decadent tart from Home Cooking Adventure. I was sold. And I didn’t even need eggs! Although I did have to go to the store xD

No Bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart

What we need:

  • 30 Oreo cookies
  • 110 g melted butter
  • 200 g milk chocolate
  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 200 ml heavy cream
  • strawberries
  • Tart pan
  • optional: white chocolate flakes

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How to:

  1. Crush the oreos to dust and add the melted butter.
  2. Put the crushed Oreos in the pan and make the bottom. Freeze until you finish the rest of this recipe.
  3. Heat the heavy cream.
  4. Cut the milk and dark chocolate in pieces.
  5. Poor the heated cream over the chocolate and let it sit for about 1 minute before stirring.
  6. Take out the tart pan and fill the bottom with the chocolate.
  7. Decorate with strawberries.
  8. Put this delicious tart in the fridge for at least 3 hours or over night.
  9. Optional: Decorate with white chocolate flakes

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

Canelés de Bordeaux

#5: Spicy Chai Latté Brownies

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#4: Speculoos Blondies

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#3: Nerdy Nummies Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nerdy Nummies Chocolate Chip Cookies!

#2: Oreo Cupcakes

Oreo Cupcake

#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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Easy Christmas Cookies

/ sarahgiebens / 13 Comments

Hi guys!

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Let there be love, fun, happiness and… food! ;D

Today’s menu: super easy Christmas Cookies to hang in your Christmas tree :) I’ve said it before with my Christmas Jam Cookies: What’s Christmas without cookies? Just a meeting!

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What we need:

  • 250 g butter
  • 165 g sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 250 g flour
  • pinch of salt
  • Christmas cookie cutters
  • plastic foil
  • baking plate
  • baking paper
  • a straw
  • ribbon

 

Christmas Cookies

How to:

  1. Mix together butter and sugar until fluffy.
  2. Add the egg yolk.
  3. Sift the flour and add it together with the salt to the mixture.
  4. Mix until everything gets combined and it forms a real dough.
  5. Wrap the dough in plastic foil and store for 30 – 60 minutes in the fridge.
  6. Remove the foil and roll out the dough.
  7. Cut out different Christmas figures.
  8. Heat the oven at 190°C.
  9. Place the cookies on a sheet of baking paper on a baking plate and make a little hole in the cookie with the straw.
  10. Bake for 15 minutes at 190°C.
  11. Let the cookies cool on the baking plate for a bit until placing them on a rack to cool completely.
  12. Take some ribbon and put it through the cookie-hole to hang them in your tree :)

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Merry Christmas!

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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No bake Snickers Cheesecake in a jar

/ sarahgiebens / 7 Comments

Hi guys!

I’ve seen so many desserts in a jar lately and I absolutely love them! I’ve been dying to try some myself but refused to buy jars in the store because I thought they were too expensive. So for a very long time: no desserts in a jar for me…

But my mom collects the jars from the jam for me. Apparently. Yay me! Now I could finally try some desserts in a jar myself :D

The first attempt was this recipe: Snickers Cheesecake in a jar!

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It’s a bit different from the Cheesecakes I’ve made so far. Other ingredients for example. I was very curious how my testing audience (the neighbours) would feel about this recipe. But they liked this little bomb of calories. Oh yes, this really is a little calorie bomb :)

Snickers Cheesecake in a jar recipe

What we need for 2 jars:

  • 2 jars
  • 120 g cream cheese
  • 180 ml heavy whipping cream
  • 1/
  • 100 g sugar
  • 150 g crushed Oreo cookies
  • Snickers, cut in pieces
  • Caramel topping

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How to:

  1. Beat together cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until creamy.
  2. Whip the cream in a different bowl.
  3. Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture.
  4. Put the crushed Oreos on the bottom of the jars and stamp down.
  5. Fill a piping bag with the cheese mixture and cut off the tip.
  6. Fill the jars for 3/4 using the piping bag.
  7. Drizzle some caramel on top.
  8. Finish with the Snickers.

This recipe was inspired by Raining Hot Coupons

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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

Halloween Spider Web Cupcake

Enjoy your cute little Halloween Spider Webs Cupcakes! :D

Have a delicious day <3
xxx Sarah

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