Cupcakes for love!

Chocolate cupcake with Coffee butter cream frosting and chocolate fondant flower decoration

 Though the name is quiet lengthy, the process is quiet easy.

For cupcake, I am sure everyone knows the recipe.

For coffee buttercream frosting: beat butter, icing sugar together and add half a tea spoon of coffee ( instant coffee diluted with water), adjusting the thickness of the mixture by adding more icing sugar as required.
Oh! by the way, since this frosting is going to be quiet sweet, you might consider using a little less sugar in the cake batter.

For chocolate fondant: mix condensed milk, icing sugar and cocoa powder together. Start with small quantity of condensed milk, adjusting as you go. My nephews and niece loved this preparation and ate the decorations like candies! To be true they were more interested in the fondant candies, rather than the cake!

For Bangladeshis out there, who are not sure what products to use, for cocoa powder you can use hersheys or alif, costing less than 100 taka per pack. The icing sugar I used was a light green colored pack, cannot remember the name, but costs less than 50 taka.
And also you will need cake decoration set and cookie cutter for the decoration. Piping sets for amateurs are available at supershops like Agora, costing around 150 Taka, cookie cutter are a little bit costlier, around 300 Taka.

Tips for making cake fluffy: Add baking soda along with baking powder to the cake batter!

Food: the ultimate stress buster

I love food and everything that has to do with it, starting from shopping for grocery.
Even the muddy  and stingy alleys of the fish market makes me ecstatic.
One of my favourite pass times is to browse through recipes, learn about new techniques, though all those measurements and long list of ingredients bore me. A natural cook can usually identify the ingredients required, no need to mention a long list.

Food, cooking it, consuming it and anything to do with it is a great stress buster for me. Good food is like short stories in the mouth, the food finishes but the taste and the memory lingers. Tales of great dishes are often reminisced over and over again at gatherings, like some sort of great event in history.

An honest confession 'I officially have a distaste for people who doesn't love to eat'. Somehow I find them very hard to please.

Right now, looking forward to the Eid ul Azha which is knocking at the door.....yay for all those meat, and all the different dishes to be prepared with it. Cannot wait to get my hand on all those meat.