With having to work in the middle of a long weekend and my family's inability to eat bananas led me to explore the delights of baking again. It has been a while since I tried baking something from scratch, and the last batch of brownies I made was only half cooked and wasn't very successful.
My mom thankfully put the very brown bananas in the fridge this time, hoping I would make something out of it. I looked up a few recipes on my favourite recipe website, Taste.com.au, and chose a banana bread with an Easter twist; chocolate chip banana bread.
The addition of white and dark chocolate bits in worked very well. And especially those squishy brown bananas. Never thought i would get so excited about bananas that were so brown. But the browner the bananas are, the better it is for the banana bread and putting a few more bananas that was required made the bread very moist and spongy. The smell when I opened the oven was so good and this was by far the best banana bread I had made.
After almost burning my fingers and having banana bread for breakfast, I finally decided to make my first ever proper cupcakes. I had tried making cupcakes before, but I didn't put the paper cups in a muffin tin and put in way too much cupcake mixture in the cups, so they were all sloppy and out of shape. This time, I made cupcakes from scratch, using some of the most delightful ingredients ever; almond meal and vanilla extract.
I got the recipe for the Vanilla cupcakes with Lemon icing from Taste.com.au as well. The icing was a bit too tangy and sweet for me and my icing job is a bit sloppy, but it is the first ever cupcakes I have made and iced, starting from scratch, so I am hoping this inspires me to continue on making more cupcakes.
Cupcakes are definietly cute and fun!
Below are the two recipes I used. I highly recommend the banana bread one:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/2714/vanilla+cupcakes+with+lemon+icing
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/12918/chocolate+chip+banana+bread
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