What I baked for Valentines Day

Last week I told myself that I would be faithful to writing on this blog about my baking adventures but alas my laziness always wins and I missed last week. To remedy this laziness, I will try to write about something every Tuesdays (Like I will put an actual alarm to remind myself). That aside, today I'll write about something I made for Valentines, Cake Pops!

They are actually pretty easy, I just watched a few youtube videos and voila... There are 5 steps to making the cakepops, 1) Bake the cake 2) Destroy the cake 4) Shape and freeze 5)Dip in candy melt and decorate!

For the first step, I use my trusty chocolate cake recipe.. I will reveal my chocolate cake recipe *drum roll please* But the recipe is not really a secret, because it is printed in every Hershey's Unsweetened cocoa box! I snapped a picture for those people who don't have it.

Second step, is to destroy the cake.. this is my absolute favorite step because it's messy and it doesn't feel right to destroy a cake. So what I did was I split the cake into 4 parts and rubbed 2 parts each until the cake is destroyed into crumbs. Then mix your favorite icing with the crumbs until it's able to hold (I used choco buttercream for this).

Fourth step, shape the crumbs and put in the the freezer for however long. 

Last and most fun, is dip in candymelt! But before you dip them you have to skewer the candy with your cakepop sticks. Then you decorate! <3 I guess this is the hardest part for me becuase I had trouble melting the vanilla candy and chocolate for the coating because I do not have a microwave.  I didn't use a makeshift double broiler at first so I ruined like half of the candymelts (so TIP: use a doublebroiler to melt if you don't have a microwave like me).

So this is how mine looks like, it's not super pretty but cut  me some slack this is my first time making this..

I gave these out to people who went to my house around Valentines day, just to make them feel good and happy. <3 

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Matcha Green Tea Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream

From the moment I tried Starbucks' Greentea latte I have been obsessed with Matcha green tea. I love everything about it! I am willing to try any desserts that have matcha or greentea in them because I am sure it will be good, with this, I knew I had to try to bake a cupcake with greentea.

Before baking these yummy goods I was faced with a few difficulties. First,it's slightly difficult to find green tea here. But if you really look closely you'll be able to find it in the grocery store. It's expensive but you only need about 4 tablespoon at most.

Another challenge that came with trying this recipe is trying to look for the perfect frosting to go with it. I wanted to try something other than just greentea on greentea. So I searched and searched until I came upon this video of Matcha Greentea with lemon buttercream:

Tried it and here's the end result:

These cupcakes tasted like laying in field of flowers with the mountain breeze blowing. They tasted fresh and tangy and really different from the other cupcakes I baked.

These cupcakes are really good but I feel like the lemon buttercream frosting may be overpowering the greentea. I plan to try another recipe, I have been told by people I trust that I should do green tea on green tea, so fine I will have to try that maybe next week, so look out for it! I'm currently on the hunt for the recipe, so if you have any suggestion, please pleasee let me know! :)

And ofcourse! If you want to try these cupcakes, I can bake them for you(ofcourse with a price, but a very low price of 270 pesos per box of 6)! Just message me on my mobile or on facebook!

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