Slightly less successful were my attempt at the Hummingbird banana cupcakes. The cupcakes turned out well but as you can see the frosting really didn't want to get hard. All I can say it was one of the hotter days of last month!
They did taste really nice, with a banana base which was really moist and flavoursome. I used my favourite caramel Bonne Maman Confiture De Caramel in the frosting and although it didn't set to stay in lovely swirls, it did taste delicious!
Finally, we had a bake sale to raise money for the flood victims in Pakistan last Tuesday so I decided to bake two lots of cupcakes. I made some malted cupcakes with a vanilla and maltester frosting and some good old vanilla. Two seconds into baking my mixer, yes the one I bought just over 3 months ago, broke. So everything was done by hand. Alas I only don't have any picture of the vanilla cupcakes as I was using my phone (the day before my mixer exploded my camera stopped working also..damn), but they were pink and very glittery.
I loaded up a few boxes of cupcakes and schleped them into work in the morning rush hour and I was so happy at how excited everyone got when they saw them - everyone except the 'lady' who organised the sale who didn't say thank you to any of the bakers, and insisted on telling people I'd bought my cupcakes - grrrrr. Jealous much - her cake was drying than Gandhi's slipper I'm told. My cakes sold out in about 15minutes and I was so happy to receive a lot of emails from my co-workers telling me they enjoyed them and offering to be my taste tester! I think her cake ended up in the bin. All I can say is KARMA!
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I've made the banana ones from hummingbird before and I think they taste more like muffins than cupcakes. I made them as a test batch for the first iron cupcake in june 2009. so a long time ago!
what do you think?
Hey Kelly - mine came out a quite light and moist and not really muffin like. I did thin they weren't going to work as the mixture was quite thick but thankfully they seemed ok.
LOL, I sympathise with the jealous colleagues, my workmates love bake day too!
Thanks Izzy - I can't believe some people are so sad!
Sorry to hear about your mixer and camera. Well done on the bake sale! Your cakes look delicious. Jealousy is so ugly, good thing there is karma. I'm really excited about cupcake camp too but can't decide what to make. My list of things to bake gets longer everyday. Iron Cupcake has definitely left a gaping hole in my baking life.
Thanks v.much - I have a shiny silver Dualit mixer now but am saving for my Kitchenaid (again!). And I got a nice new camera out of it too :)
I'm the same - can't decide, although I have two ideas that I think are the ones I'm going to practice this weekend. I do wish Samantha would bring it back - it gave you a good reason to test out different ideas
What beautiful little cupcakes.
Thanks ever so much Lisa
you have a pretty website, so glad i stopped by:) and the cupcakes are so fab! thank you for sharing sweetie.
Thanks BBKD - I'm just stuck on your site drooling over the pavlova!
All those cakes were lush, I never thought I'd enjoy a banana cake but they were lovely. The malted ones were amazing :)
Your cakes go down a storm wherever you bring them and I'm not surprised, you really are talented :) It must be all the love you put into your baking xxx
Thanks Manny - my favourite tester by far :)
Love is my secret ingredient..shush ;)
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