Raspberry and White Chocolate Brownies

It was a Friday night, I was home alone (I do live alone after all) and I got a craving for white chocolate brownies.  So I decided to make some.  That's what every twenty five year old dreams of.  Spending a Friday night at home alone baking.  Actually it was perfect.

I had never made white chocolate and raspberry brownies before so sort of made up the recipe as I went along.  They sort of turned into cakes.  Well, cake brownies.  But they were perfect.

White Chocolate, Baileys & Raspberry Cheesecake

On Christmas Day, my family never have the traditional Christmas pudding.  My Mum always makes a lovely, scrumptious pudding for us and it is different every year.  This year, I said it is my go.  I said that I would make a cheesecake.  Having never made a cheesecake before, I got searching for recipes.  I decided that I wanted to make a Baileys, white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake.

I must have looked at about 7 different recipes to get ideas, then incorporated them into my own.

Banana + Cinnamon Cakes

What are Sundays for if they aren't for baking? Seeing as one of my latest food obsessions is banana, I fancied making a cake with banana in it, so I got to work researching different recipes, and finally came up with something that I liked.  I liked this recipe the best.  We have the banana cinnamon cupcake.

100 grams wholemeal self raising flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 egg

2 tablespoons honey

1 tablespoon melted butter

2 bananas

1 heaped tablespoon chocolate chips

With a spoon, combine the flour, cinnamon and chocolate chips.

Mash the bananas until all lumps are gone (this could also be done in a food processor).  Then add the egg, honey, butter and flour mixture.  Whisk until well combined.

Spoon the batter into muffin cases and place into a preheated oven at 180°C for 20 minutes.

Yummy!!

These cupcakes were so easy and quick to make, and I already had the ingredients.  I felt like they were not like normal cake consistency, but somewhere between cake and bread.  I will definitely be making these again!

Chocolate Brownies

In addition to Thursday's blogpost on my contribution to the cake sale, I present to you my second entry to the sale - chocolate brownies!  These were my favourite out of my little baking session,

280g Dark chocolate

280g Butter

4 Medium eggs

280g Caster sugar

Vanilla extract

125g Plain flour

50g Cocoa powder

85g Milk chocolate

85g White chocolate

Step One

Melt dark chocolate and butter together in a bowl, stir until smooth then set aside to cool a little.

Step Two

Lightly beat the eggs, then whisk in the sugar to form a creamy froth.

Step Three

Fold in the mixture of melted dark chocolate and butter.

Step Four

Mix in flour and cocoa powder.

Step Five

Add in roughly 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.  Chop the milk and white chocolate into chunks then stir in.

Step Six

Line a tray with baking paper and pour in mixture,  Bake at 180°C in a preheated oven for 20-30 minutes.

These brownies are equally as nice warm or cool.  I think vanilla ice cream would go lovely with the warm brownie, although be careful whilst cutting warm as it can be a little crumbly.

Mmmmm my favourite!

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Cranberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

Anyone who knows me well will know that I love a good baking session, so I was more than excited when I learnt we were going to have a cake sale at work.  Of course I got to work trying to research the most delicious recipe, when I spotted cranberries for sale in a supermarket and came up with the idea of cranberry and white chocolate cupcakes.  They were very yummy, even if I do say so myself, so here I am to give you the recipe.

175g unsalted butter

175g self-raising flour

175g caster sugar

Baking powder

3 large eggs

Vanilla extract

Fresh cranberries

White chocolate

I am a bit lazy when it comes to baking and don't tend to weigh out all of the ingredients.  I weigh out the important stuff like flour, sugar and butter, but when it comes to the other bits and bobs such as vanilla extract and all the other flavourings, I tend to add in whatever I feel like.

Step One

Mix softened butter and sugar together

Step Two

Add in all 3 eggs and flour and beat well.

Step Three

Mix in a dash of baking powder and roughly half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. 

Step Four

Add chopped fresh cranberries and chunks of white chocolate.  I used roughly 80g of a bar of chocolate and cut it into large chunks.

Step Five

Divide mixture evenly between 15 muffin cases.  Bake at 180°C in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the cakes are well risen and firm on top.  (Check on them! As my cakes may have a slightly burnt look!)

Step Six

When the cakes were cool I added bits of white chocolate.  Or you could add icing if you prefer.

Very easy to make and very yummy too!  What is your favourite type of cake?

Strawberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

I had plans to go shopping today but it did not quite go to plan.  I woke up early with a sore throat, feeling achy and tired and generally quite urgh, like I was coming down with something.  So I scrapped the plans to go shopping and decided to have a baking day instead.  Don't worry, I did not pass any of my germs into the cakes.  I am quite sure it was just man flu, or something similar seeing as I am not a man and am now feeling better.

The cakes turned out quite successful.

Strawberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

240g butter
240g sugar
4 eggs
Half teaspoon vanilla extract
240g self raising flour
50g chopped fresh strawberries
2 tablespoons strawberry jam

Mix the butter and sugar together. 
Add eggs and flour.
Stir in the vanilla extract, finely chopped strawberries and the jam.
Bake for about 20 minutes at 180°C.
While the cupcakes cool, make the icing.

For the icing you will need:
250g icing sugar
80g unsalted butter
25ml milk
150g melted white chocolate

Beat together the butter and icing sugar, add the milk and chocolate and mix until smooth.

When the cakes are cool, add on the icing and if you fancy, top it off with half a chopped strawberry on top.

There you have it, great tasting cupcakes :)

What is your favourite type of cake?