Carrot cake

Mini Carrot cakes

I attempted something new. Carrot cake.
It was successful! And quite easy too. There are heaps of free recipes online, I found one that had the ingredients that I already had at home, so suss out what works best for you. The cream cheese icing was so yummy too. I made little cupcakes instead of one big cake, however I think that unless you are going to feed 24 people with the cupcakes, just make a cake as it's much easier to store.

Lots of mini Carrot cakes!

mmmmelbourne cupcakes...

 oreo, chocolate mud, mocha and strawberry. bliss

passionfruit cupcakes!

Here is a really good (and simple) cupcake recipe, that always tastes amazing :)

Passionfruit cupcakes:

150g soft butter/margarine  (i melt mine)
150g caster sugar
175g self raising flour
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Set oven to 180 degrees (or 350 f)

    Line a 12 hole muffin tin

2. Add all the ingredients into a mixing bowl,
    mix with a hand held mixer, until creamy and soft

3. add to muffin tin. pop in the oven for 12-20 minutes

Icing:

2 x passionfruit

2 cups of icing sugar

1 tablespoon of butter

1. blend the icing sugar and butter - should become crumbly
2. blend in the pulp from the 2 passionfruit
** alter and change depending on how you like your icing, i normally just measure as i go!