TOP 5

Hello again!
Today i'll share with you guys my favourite Top 5 cupcakes!

Top 1
Last year i went to London and i was walking in Soho and suddendly i was instead of one of the most amazing bakeries in London,the Hummingbird Bakery. I've bought there one red velvet and a vanilla cupcake. Well since that day, that cupcake has become my number 1 cupcake. Red Velvet is it's name! I love that flavour sweet and bitter, the texture and the cream cheese on the top. It's one of the best things in this world! Freaking amazing!

Hummingbird Bakery, Soho, London

My number one... Red Velvet

Top 2   

Who doesn't love Oreo cookies?  I'm a huge fan of them and this summer when i went to USA i saw so many different flavours of it that i couln't imagine that exist. Everyone who loves oreo cookies will love these cupcakes. This is my number 2.

You can always make it in a different way and you can reinvent it everytime you make it because there are plenty ways to make this recipe but bellow i'll share the recipe i love the most with you guys. try to make mint cupcakes with oreo mint! Nham nham...! Number 2 is Oreo Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!

My number 2...Oreo Cupcake

Top 3

My number 3 is in this position because of the way it looks. I love the final result of the Blueberry Cupcakes! the tinny blue blueberries made a beautifull effect with the powder sugar, and they also taste really good. This is a good option for healthy cupcakes because they're poor in sugar.

My number 3... Blueberry Cupcake

Top 4

Definitly my number 4 is Orange Cupcake. It remind me my childwood and the orange  sweets that my mum use to make. It's one the most simple recipes and the result is amazing. You can also put an orange frosting to decorate it.

My number 4... Orange Cupcakes

Top 5

And last but not least my number 5 is Lemon Cupcake. The reasons are the same from my number 4 and i really really love them. I could eat them every day :)

My number 5... Lemon Cupcakes

The Best Chocolate Cake EVER

Hi guys! 

Today i'm sharing with you all, one of the best chocolate cake recipes i've ever made. 

Why is it so good are you asking... because it's not a regular chocolate cake, it's fresh, it's wet and it makes you wanna eat one and another piece :)
This is also the perfect cake for a birthday or other special occasion. This recipe can also be used as a cupcake recipe as you'll see in the picture bellow.
So here we go...

Chocolate Cake
* 200g of casting sugar

* 4 beaten egg whites with a pinch of salt

* 125g of melted butter

* 200g of melted chocolate

* 4 spons of flour

* 4 yolks

Put the sugar and the flour toguether and mix them really well. After they're both well incorporated add the yolks and the melted butter. Mix everything until you have a smooth moisture. After this step add the melted chocolate and add the beaten egg whites.

Line a pan with butter and pour the mixture on it. Place in oven and wait about 20 minutes. This time always depend from oven to oven so it's better if you go check your cake from time to time! 

Topping

* 100g of melted chocolate

* 20g of melted butter

Mix the chocolate and the butter toguether and cover your cake. You can also add some sprinkles, chocolate chips or other things from your preference to decorate it.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate Topping with sprinkles

I hope you guys like this recipe as much as i do :)

See you soon <3

It's Christmas Time!

Christmas season is already here so let's make some cookies for the kids and family <3

Your true self!

Today I speak to you about something that doesn't worry or bother me but it makes me sad to know that we still live in a world where people judge each other by appearances. 

Since we were born the we are confronted with a society that always tends to educate ourselves in the same pattern: go to school, get a job (accepted by society), marry, have children.

But if we choose a different path? and instead of doctor I want to be tattoo artist? and instead of walking in high heels i preffer to use torn trousers and skirts of pink tulle? and instead of being heterosexual, my intimate tells me that like people from the same sex?
It is not my case but it could be. And what would happen in that situation?
Well, we all know: discrimination. (bad) stereotypical judgments of value and everything else that comes from closed minds who were rooting for hundreds of years.
We all have the right to make choices, to choose what they most identify with.
All we have (should have) the right to be different!
Escape the rule does not necessarily have to be bad.
I am different.
Sometimes I do not fit in this society, which is rotting the very stereotypes that all the same allowed to settle.
Be different, do not be afraid!

I am different and accepted by my friends and my family!
The rest does not matter!
You can be punk and have a heart of gold.
You can be a hard rock singer with air mad but your songs tell truths that no one else has the courage to verbalize.
Being able to be covered in tattoos and each one of them mean the love you have for someone or something.
You can be gay but at least you're happy, unlike many unfortunate people who roam the streets every day.
And you should be yourself! And in many ways you show the world the true essence of your being.
Your true self!

 Heart On My Sleeve - H2o

You see me on the street,
There is no need to explain,
I'm not what you think I am,
I'm just like you, but with tattoos!
Cuz I wear my heart on my sleeve,
My appearance may be deceiving,
It doesn't matter what you think,
Because the truth is in me!
This is the life I chose,
This is the only thing I know,
So don't pass judgement on me!
The places that I've been,
Forever written on my skin,
So don't pass judgement on me!
You see me walking down the street,
And you grab your kids and cross the other side,
Looking me like I'm a fucking criminal a degenerate lowlife,
You got me all wrong!
Cuz I wear my heart on my sleeve,
My appearance may be deceiving,
It doesn't matter what you think,
Because the truth is in me!
This is the life I chose,
This is the only thing I know,
So don't pass judgement on me!
The places that I've been,
Forever written on my skin,
So don't pass judgement on me!
You know you can't judge a book by it's cover,
You know you got me all wrong,
And I know my appearance may be deceiving,
But I feel...
I FEEL IT ALL,
SO DON'T PASS JUDGEMENT ON ME!
This is the life I chose,
This is the only thing I know,
So don't pass judgement on me!
The places that I've been,
Forever written on my skin,
So don't pass judgement on me!
It doesn't matter what you think,
Because the truth is in me! 

 

This video is just a complement to what I have been saying. I hope you enjoy and know that we can not all be the same! Being different does not necessarily have to be bad

Chocolate & Oreo Fridge Cake

Some people say the best ideas come at night and tonight I've started thinking about doing something different with oreo cookies, and the final result was a Chocolate & Oreo Fridge Cake!

I remember as a child to make this cake lot of times but i use to make it always the same way with regular butter cookies. The recipe you're about to see it's a little bit different and kids and grown ups will love it!

Prepare all the ingredientes and let's get the party started ;)

Chocolate & Oreo Fridge Cake

• 5 egg yolks
• 200g  of cooking chocolate
• 125g butter at room temperature
• 150g oreo cookies
• 150g sugar 

Put the butter and the sugar toguether and mix them until you have a fluffy texture. After that add the egg yolks and the melted chocolate and mix them all really well until everything is well incorporated. The final step is to put the oreo cookies broken into pieces and mix it again until all the cookies are covered. 

Last but not least add two sheets of aluminum foil, wraps and put the mixture as if it was a roll of flesh and put it on the fridge. When the roll it's hard it's ready to eat!

Halloween!!!

Halloween it's not a portuguese tradition but we're starting to celebrate it in kindergarden or elementary schools and also in private parties. Some clubs are making theme parties and people join easily and like!

This year i made some halloween cookies like ghosts and pumpkins :) kids loved them.

I used a simple recipe from "the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook" here it is:

Sugar Cookies

200g unsalted butter at room temperature

280g of caster sugar

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

400g plain flour

a pinch of salt

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

Royal Icing

1 egg white

1/2 teaspoon freshly sqeezed lemon juice

310g icing sugar

food colouring optional

Put the butter, sugar and vanilla extract toguether and mix them really well until you have a fluffy cream. Add the egg and mix it again.
Add the flour, the salt and the cream tartar mix them well but don't overmix it. The dough must be soft and easy to handle.

After the dough is ready, you must clean a surface and put some flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Get your cookie cutters ready and let the magic begin. preheat the oven for about 10 minutes.

Take a look regularly to make sure the cookies are not burning and when they're light golden they are ready.

For the royal icing...

Beat the egg white with the lemon juice and after that gradually start adding the icing sugar. Mix it well until everything it's well incorporated. Add some drops of food colouring if you want and start to decorate your cookies!

Ghosts Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies

I hope you have enjoyed this cookie recipe.
Next step, Christmas cookies ;)

What a great weekend!

This weekend i've started my little "bakery business"and it was a blast! I'm really happy and i feel that my mission was accomplished! Everyone loved my cupcakes, cakes and cookies so what more should i ask for? :)

Cake decorated with Portuguese Paste: some tips

Birthday Cake - base of chocolate and decorated with portuguese paste 

(this kind of paste has lemon flavour and it's really used to make all kind of decorations in cakes)

This cake was a challenge for me. 

I had never worked with portuguese paste and i wasn't sure how to shape the dough to the cake, but after some explanations in a specialty store I ventured forth and the result was the cake on the picture above.
After you unmold the cake and cool it, you need to bar him with jelly (i choose quince jelly because the flavour is neutral). The next step is to cover the cake with the portuguese paste with the colour base wich in this case was red.   

When you work with portuguese paste the main secret is in kneading the dough never without a little powdered sugar cornstarch and flour mix. Then you stretch the dough well and be very careful when applying it on the cake. You also need to have your cake really flat, otherwise the paste won't be nice and the result will not be the one you expect.
After this step you just have to let your imagination fly away. In this case the theme from the cake was a logo from an air Force Team. It was hard because there were many tinny details but the final result was perfect and the person  loved it!

My first Bday Cake!

This Bday Cake has a chocolate base and it was frosted with cream cheese and oreos. The letters from the decoration where written with Wilton Sparkle Gel, one of my favourite brands.

What you can see!

In the next weeks and months you'll be able to see a lot of cupcake recipes that i use to make. I'm a Huge fan of Hummingbird Bakery, a bakery located in London, UK. In my opinion they have the best cupcakes in the whole world...maybe one day i'll make some of the bests too ah ah!
I'll post some pics too so you can see the results!

Promptly i can write about some themes from my interest and that may interest you too so ENJOY IT!