I HEART CUPPY CAKES-CHOCOLATETY BANANA CUPPYS WITH BAKED IN PB FILLING & CARAMEL BANANA GLAZE

Ok i wasnt supposed to have 2 entries but though ------these are deliciouc-----i just wasnt happy with my work & thought i would work with another one with a sad heart-i was like how can i post my dissapointment but i went ahead & did just that.

And i have to make it on time for both my posts but am at advantage being around 12 hours ahead of est,so i think i'll just about make it na? I better have to!!!

So here am trying another experiment & i so so hope it works(sob....sob),its sat night and i have less than 24 hrs to bake ,cook & ice & am just going to quarter the recipe coz already have a batch of absolutely rich chocolate cuppies so want to do us all a favour.

And i really am so sad that i cant face any of u i heart cuppycake bakers-i'm sorry.the worst parts i cant pin -point what when wrong------with these---i mean besides my not so good handiwork,the cuppy is rich almost a brownie like texture(hope its supposed to be like that or did i make a mistake???

the peanut butter filling is delicious(bring on the jelly and toast will ya)

Ok maybe the white choco ganache didnt turn what i imagined it would & a disaster makes me cry(there goes my eeny weeny teeny hope of ever winning flying outa the window)---oh prize sponserers,u guys are so generous with awesome dang cuteness

I have most of the ingredients at hand ---and is adpated from the chockylit cuppycake blog too,i think i wont let down with the banana this time round ,though would have loved a local goan very sweet banana called 'bananas de moira'but i have these love sweet yellow ones which will work right too.

Of course its been more than a couple of months that i havent been able to get my hands on good quality cupcake paper & its only if someone's coming down from abroad that i'll finaly get my hands on all those colorful & pastel thick ,fantastic looking polka dots & xmas trees & snowman & jinglebell cupcake cases!!!!(dree eeeam...dream(3) * 3)
So cheers to me again(please i nedd a pick me up right now) & i heart cuppycakkeys yeah!!!-----i heart cuppy cakeys

I trust this one will look better ,though honestly havent yet decorated these cuppys & its already sat night & its been a very very long day & the past few days & way to busy ,i didn even think i'd wait for the last min for this one.
So with a smile on my lips & prayer in my heart i'm back on my toes again & lemme get going....and best parts that i hopped across to this recipe without looking for it
PEANUT BUTTER FILLING
20 ML CUP BROWN SUGAR
20 ML CUP PEANUT BUTTER
1/4 BEATEN EGG
1.mix all of the above & mix well in a small bowl & keep aside(oh this is delicious)

FOR THE CUPPY CAKEYS
(i got 9 bigger cuppys with this batter)
40 grams butter
3.5(around 100 grams) ounces semi sweet & bitter sweet callets mixed
1/4 cup + 1 tbh sugar
1 egg
1 whole vanilla bean
20ml cup cocopowder
1/4 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup mashed banana



1.Melt chocolate with butter over a baine marie.(now this is a LOT of chocolate)
2.WHisk well the egg & sugar
3.Add the sifted flour with cocopowder & mix to combine.
4.add the gorgeous melted choco mix & then stir in mashed banana.
5.Fill cuppycakes 1/3 full,drop in a tsp of buttet & top to 2/3rds full again with batter.
(as am writing this to bake first thing in the morning i can already feel the excitement buiding up in my viens)
6. Bake in a pre-heated oven @180 till crust forms.

CARAMEL GLAZE
1 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons half and half
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. MElt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.Add milk & brown sugar ,stir well to combine.
2.bring to a roaring boil & boil for a min
(honestly even at this point this caramel glaze is simply delish...finger licking good)
3.remove from heat & whisk in well 1/4 cup powdered sugar.
4.Cool awhile & scrape in the vanilla ,remaining powdered sugar(i think i could do with just half the powdered sugar here)
5.add half & half if u think its too stiff
6.quickly spoon over cuppycakkeys before it sets.
7.yummy yummy luscious with loads of tiny vanilla bean specs.....

CARAMALIZED BANANA DISCS
1 tbh butter + 1 tbh clarified butter + a tsp of olive oil
1 medium ripe bananas,sliced into discs
lemon/lime juice or rose water or both(optional)
1.melt butters in a skillet with olive oil(the oil prevents butter from burning) & carefully add banana discs & let caramalize slowly until brown & crispy.
2.flip with 2 forks(makes things so much easier),continue cooking on other side.(do it it ur taste well browned or lightly ,thinly or thickly sliced)
3.when done ,sprinkle a few drops lemon juice or rose water.sprinkle with a little shiny sugar(optional but a great add on -i played here with a little caramel to top the tiny heart shaped banana toppings & a few with some golden syrup too-a goos addition if u love lusciousness)
4.this can be done as slices too ....or cut discs into heart shape.
5.Decorate ur cupcakes & gorge on the rest of the bananas.

but what i liked most about baking 2 sets back to back was having a little more t give away-i make it a point to keep aside a little of what i bake to give the poor,it aint much i do and i cant give to all,but every drop counts is my consolation,and love the smiles on someone who would never indulge in buying cookies & cakes,so this time round i had a little more & even the non-sweet -toothies loved 'em-must be all that dark chocolate-am happy again!!!

BEST EVER CHOCO CAKE-summer o 2009

choco cake all dressed if u noticed frosted the cake when still a wee bit warm if u didn well i was d eager beaver to see d finale

and if u didn notice,yeah i did slice up a big chunk before icing

thats how inviting it's to d palate...n tempting too

d recipe follows below and works well for cuppys too which i've already tried and tested

Sitting by my kitchen i aint thinking what a breezy day it is, though a lovely respite from our rather warm goan summer, whats on my mind is how am going to keep up with my running flow of thought about this lovely "bestest" chocolate cake ever. I am quite a new baker with starting a lot of baking this year but had been baking before my teens and was attracted to the passions of science of cooking and pouring over pot and pans but my baking was quite limited to chocolate and more. And did try more than a couple of choco goodies at that time but had to stop soon coz my oven couldn take the load and gave away after my delicious fruit cake at christmas as everyone wanted more and even asked for some to take abroad. That was the end of my love story. Now its after almost a 5 year break am back with a bang and a new oven. But this this is and has to be my best choco cake ever. But then everything about KAF is that way right? Its moist and soft and dense yet light and it amazing. Set out the butter at 2am, haha. And since yesterday have this craving for choco cake though have a lovely goan rich cake in the fridge, but thats almost over too. And thought why not make a layer of vanilla in between. Its been some time that had to get down to baking your yet another delicious golden vanilla cake which has cream cheese in it. I m very much new to the science of baking and maybe i shouldn be mixing batters of slightly different, actually quite different consistency, but my heart was made and the choco was thinner and the vanilla smooth and thicker, the choco was very shiny smooth too and had a lovely shiny crust too. Well the result is very deliciously beautiful, its like a vanilla suprise in the midst of a well risen yummiest ever choco cake with a vanilla frosting , sprinkled with choco cake crumbs and drizzled with a choco frosting. This aint going to last to sunday. I aint really carefull in weighing nor do i have an electric or stand mixer, i just had my hands to beat it real hard. Had 2 types of choco powders which i mixed and my vanilla aint pure either and i await the day will have a nice big fat goody bag filled with kAF products but will have to wait for my travel abroad.

And the recipe in used for the vanilla layer is golden vanilla pound cake. Its lovely too. And this whole result didn end up in our run of the milk ribbon cake but a nice special very beautiful vanilla layer in between.

what i love about this cake is not only the delish melt in your mouth part of it but also the real quik one bowl method,like kinda have the cake n eat it too and with some frosting in good measure