Cupcakes x2

Cupcakes are the best. So are hazelnuts, honey and Chinese food. I made Honey/Hazelnut Cupcakes for my dad on father's day, two weeks ago. We both love honey so obviously I had to make honey cupcake. And man, do these cupcakes have a lot of honey. The bottom picture are obviously Chinese food cupcakes, my sister and I made them to celebrate the end of our Chinese sacs, which have caused too many sleepless nights.


I think most of us will know which recipe I used, the Honey/Hazelnut cupcakes have been trending in the blogmesphere, mostly on pinterest. But for those who don't know I used Half Baked Harvest's Honey Toasted Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk Cupcakes with Boozy Honey Buttercream Frosting. Of course I omitted the booze, what was I going to do with a bottle of hazelnut liquor other than use a few tablespoons of it for this recipe. Instead I used two teaspoons of vanilla essence, you can adjust to your own preference of how strong you'd like the vanilla, I personally like a lot of vanilla.

Even though I made these cupcakes for my dad, I think I ate most of them. If I remember correctly I ate 2.5 each day because they were that good! (the half because 3 sounded too excessive) The chocolate chunks really added texture and a different flavour compared to the rest of the delicious honey cupcake. The best part was the extra crunch the honey toasted hazelnuts.  If you like honey or eating in general, make these cupcakes! I know I definitely will again.

YUMMMM!!!

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The Chinese food Cupcakes are a beaut aren't they? When I brought them to school people thought I put real broccoli on it :O.

I took inspiration from this site. I follower her method, but substituted different lollies since I did not have access to taffy. I used fizzers for the broccoli, natural chews  for the egg, the pink section of rainbow strips and skittles for peas and corn. 

I used my favourite vanilla cupcake recipe and this eggless cupcake recipe for my Chinese class. The frosting is a cream cheese frosting, which had some cocoa powder and yellow food colouring to give it that noodle-y appearance. I'll admit everyone was so excited and confused.

Well that was fun, hopefully I'll be posting more yummy food this month :)

CRED:

Honey Toasted Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk Cupcakes with Honey Buttercream Frosting @ Half Baked Harvest

Chow mein cupcakes @ somethingwittyaboutcupcakes
Golden Vanilla cupcake @ Woodland Bakery
Vegan Vanilla cupcake @ cupcakemerchant
Cream cheese frosting @ glorioustreats