Ginger and Chocolate Cupcakes

I bought some ginger essence a while back and have been trying to find a reason to use it for a while. Today, I decided I’d just go for it.

So I through these together. They’re a basic cupcake recipe with ginger essence, ground ginger and chocolate chips mixed in, and the icing is chocolate buttercream. The little koalas are an last minute whim – I think they look cute, and they’re some of my favourite biscuits so…

The cupcakes are a little on the dry side – I really need to start experimenting with cake recipes as well as just flavourings! But the icing is really nice.

Lemon and Coconut

I have less than a week until my exams start. It's stressing me out, but less so than I expected. One thing it has done, is reduced the amount of time I spend doing anything other than work.

Still, I've baked a little - I made some yummy cupcakes last weekend, and I'm planning to make some apple ones today. Also, the bf is coming over for dinner, and I'm planning a hodgepodge of crab, pasta and various veg...not sure how it'll turn out, but we'll see.

Anyway, here are last week's cupcakes. They weren't quite as successful as I'd hoped, but still nice. The cupcake itself is lemon and white chocolate chip. The lemon didn't come through quite as strongly as I'd hoped - it never does (any tips welcome!). The frosting is coconut and cream cheese, and was absolutely lovely.

No recipie I'm afraid. I can't be bothered to remember it, and I need to get back to work anyway.

Lemon and White Chocolate Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Frosting