Hello my friendsssss,
It’s been quite an eventful week this week. My 19th birthday was on Thursday and that called for a rather messy night at the bar and a lazy Friday. Another party on Saturday and I must say, I am pooped! I did find some time to make some cupcakes. One of my birthday gifts was Martha Stewart’s newest book Martha Stewart Cupcakes. Since Canada Day is on Wednesday and I’ll be working, I decided to make some Canadian-inspired cupcakes a bit early! These are Martha’s “Maple Sweetened Carrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting”. These were good but they were definately not my favourite cupcakes ever. In the blurb before the recipe, Martha calls these cupcakes a healthier option for kids parties and occasions. By my standards, replacing white sugar with a massive amount of maple syrup and molasses does not shout HEALTH to me, but I think it is important to indulge every once in awhile. The icing was composed of maple syrup and cream cheese but I took the liberty of adding maple sugar and powdered sugar to decrease the cream cheese flavour. I used marzipan to cut out the maple leaves. I much prefer the taste of marzipan to fondant. All in all, these were fun to bake and it was great to try out my new book (this month’s Cookbook of the Month)! I can’t wait to try out some of the other intriguing flavours!
Indeed, what Martha calls more healthy is more unhealthy!! But they do look excellent!
I don’t like frosting on any of my cakes, but I really would like to try at least 1 of them,..
Love how you decorated the cupcakes…and Happy Canada Day!
Sophie- it’s true! Silly Martha!
Frosting is my absolute favourite part of any cake!!!
Juliana- Thank you!!!
The maple leaves look great! Happy Canada Day to you too!
Hello Koko,
You wanted a few info on BYOB= Bake Your Own Bread! Here it is!
BYOB= Bake Your Own Bread, originates from the foodblog:http://www.bakersbench.blogspot.com
You have to émail the person behind the blog & that is Sandycastle1@ gmail.com
that you would like to join the group. You have to give your foodblog website. She does a round up of any form of breads every half of the month or every month & she includes your link. That when someone clicks onto your link , they will vbe visiting your foodblog. You can’t win anything but trough her foodblog, you are a bit more promoted! Then she will review your site & let you know by émail if you are accepted! Then you can copy & paste the HTML code inside your blog!
Sophie, thank you so much for the info. I really appreciate that. Looks like I’ll have to start baking some bread!!!
these are super cute! haha i saw them on tastespotting and i was like oh look! someone made something for canada day, and not only july 4th haha and then i see its you! hehe. very cute koko! ps..started the book yet??
Thanks Karine!!
Lou! No one else made anything for Canada Day! I had to step up haha. And yes, not only have I started the book, I CAN’T STOP READING IT! Sometimes I like Jacob even more than Edward….is that a crime!?!!?
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boa noite estou fascinada com essas delicias ameiiiiii!!!!