Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Honey, passion fruit and sour cream cup cakes


2 cups plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 eggs

220g butter

1 cup caster sugar

About 4 passion fruits, pulp

70ml milk

2 tablespoons honey

1 cup sour cream





Preheat oven – 180 deg.

Whip butter and sugar together, til light and fluffy – add eggs slowly. Beat again between each.

Add in sour cream, honey, passion fruit and milk. Stir in.

Cook for 15-20 mins. Cool. I put on some cream, lemon thyme and vanilla. Mmmm.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Pumpkin, date and almond cup cakes/muffins




Sounds odd, but this is a very lovely combination. It actually tastes more like carrot cake than anything else. I whacked on some cream and a dash of maple, too.




400g pumpkin, cooked + mashed

2 cups self raising flour

1 teaspoon bi-carb soda

1 teaspoon all-spice

2 eggs

1 cup chopped dates

½ cup finely chopped almonds



Cook/steam pumpkin (I used the microwave) until soft. Mash, then cool.

Add all the other ingredients, then the mash. Mix well.

Put into the paddy cups (or you can make a big 'ol cake) and bake in a 160-180 oven for about 15mins. Easy.

*Special thanks to Mr.N for the cup cake holders :)