It's my Mum's birthday this week and she loves amethyst and jewel purple colours so I made her these pretty violet pops with crystallised violet petal decoration. Happy birthday Mum!
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
Chocolate Macarons
These choc macs are intensely chocolately. The chocolate buttercream sandwiching them together was originally destined for a chocolate cake but makes a fine filling for these guys.
Ps. I love this tin of mine from Peyton & Byrne.
Ps. I love this tin of mine from Peyton & Byrne.
INGREDIENTS
Shells:
100g icing sugar
50g cocoa powder
100g ground almonds
2 large egg whites
Buttercream filling:
100g dark chocolate (melted and cooled)
125g unsalted butter (at room temperature)
125g icing sugar
1tsp milk
1tsp vanilla extract
METHOD
1. Preheat the oven to 200C and line two baking trays with baking parchment
2. Blend the icing sugar, cocoa powder and ground almonds in a food processor
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites with 2 tbsp of icing sugar until smooth and glossy with soft peaks
4. Fold everything in together and transfer into a piping bag
5. Pipe 20 small circles on each tray, tap the trays on your work surface to release any air and set aside to dry out for 20 minutes
6. Turn the oven down to 180C and back for 2 mins, then 160C for 2 mins, then 140C for a further 4mins
7. Cool and sandwich together with the chocolate buttercream (made by beating everything together)
Makes 20
Adapted from The Whoopie Pie Book.
Cake Pops on FiveGoMad
How exciting! You can now buy my cake pops online at FiveGoMad. As well as cake pops, FiveGoMad stock lots of lovely things like retro sweets from Suck & Chew and printed ceramics and teatowels from London based designer Snowden Flood.
Labels:
cake pops
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Sweet Love: Happy Valentines!
Happy Valentine's Day! Whether you love the 14th Feb or not it's always an excuse to bake. Red velvet cake pops fit the bill - all you need is red candy melts, pink heart sprinkles (and love of course!).
If you don't fancy cake pops you can win over hearts and stomachs with the ever popular red velvet cupcakes...
Labels:
cake pops,
valentines day
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