Cuffins/Mupcakes and Spaghetti Carbonara

so, this week it was cupcakes. Or muffins. Actually, we can't seem to agree on which one it was, so we call them cuffins or mupcakes. You decide, both names are psychadelic. The actual cake was a delicious recipe for muffins, but since you put that stuff on top, we're not sure if it is a cupcake. We have seen several ways of trying to define the difference of a muffin and a cupcake, but we are still not entirely sure that we did it the right way.
Either way, then they turned out rather great, cute and well-tasting.

Army of mupcakes!

The recipe:

(danish recipe is here)

• 180 g dark chocolate


• 500 g flour


• 2 teaspoons soda


• 450 g sugar


• 100 g cocoa


• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar


• 1 cup milk


• 1 cup butter


• 2 cups natural yoghurt


• 2 eggs

This is for something around 24 muffins, but we tried to make 36 and ended up with 53. Maybe our forms were just smaller than the usual, but we think that you should count on getting a couple of more cuffins than what it reads. If you just leave out the chocolate and cocoa, it becomes normal muffins, and then you can add whatever you want to make your mupcakes just as you love them.

chop 3/4 of the chocolate, and then mix all of the dry ingredients with the chopped chocolate. Then mix the rest of the ingredients (remember to melt the butter) in a separate bowl, and whip it up. Now mix it all together gently by hans - no machines! Now you ought to have something like this:

Then put it in your form ~ and bake it at 200 degrees celcius for about 15 minutes. If they are still liquid in the middle (check with a stick), they should have a couple more minutes.

and after 15-17 minutes:

Cuffins. A lot of them.

now for the interesting part. The topping.

Recipe:

• 500 g. sugar


• 3/4 cup whipping cream


• 200 g butter


• 1 small orange


• ½ lemon

This will turn out white, so if you want some colour into it, you have to add food colouring. We used red and blue, because we wanted it to be purple.

This is developed most by Gwan. I was awfully tired and fell asleep, so she did most of it. Yay her!

First, you melt the butter in a pot, and then mix the butter and half of the whipping cream. squeeze the orange and lemon, and put the juice in the pot. Put it all in the fridge (or if it is as cold as it is here, you can just put it outside covered in some snow for an hour) until it has stiffened. This can take a couple of hours, so you should maybe actually start with making this.

After it has cooled down, you whip it with an electrical whisker. This might be a little hard, but as you do it, you put in the rest of the whipping cream. You can just continue to put in more if it does not get as stiff as you want it to be. Now add some colouring if you like to, and then put it on your mupcakes. Remember the 1/4 of chocolate you haven't used yet? If you want, you can shred it up and crumple it on the top. Gives it a great and delicious look, and is just the dot over the i (which is, by the way, called a tittle)

Here we have the beautiful result!

Response of the cuffins:

Very good! They got a lot of "mmmh! Can I has more?" and a hell lot of "Omg, wth is that on the top, gimme the recipe!". As there was more left after everybody got 1 cuffin, I said that the fast people could get another one, so they of course ran as fast as they could over to the cakes n_n; Another victory, a lot said that they were

"the best cupcakes I have ever tasted,,

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Since I (Thi-chan) spend so much time in Gwans kitchen I decided to start making dinner for her family every Tuesday so that I would contribute a little to the home, too.
This time I decided to cook what have been my very favorite dish for years; Spaghetti carbonara. I must say it was great to finally work in a proper kitchen again and the cooking was made extremely fun and easy by this.
Here is the recipe for 4 persons:

• 500 g fresh pasta (I used fettucine)

• about 250 g bacon
  
• 1 cup cream
• 4 eggs
• 50 g granted parmesan cheese
• Some salt and pepper

First you fry the bacon and leave the fat to drip off on a papertowel.
Then boil the pasta with some salt and olive oil. While the pasta is on the stove mix the cream, eggs and parmesan cheese together. Add the bacon and when the pasta is done, pour off the water, put it back into the pot and mix it with the sauce. You can leave it on the stove for about a minute for the sauce to be just right. Now it is supposed to look like this:

You then arrange it on four plates with fresh-grounded pepper on top et voila! It's ready to be served.Gwans family really seemed to like my cooking, asking me how I had made it and how long it had taken me. It was also eaten quite fast, so I am left to believe that maybe I created a new favourite in the family. Next week I plan to make a good mushroom risotto. See ya until then!

bloopers:

CAKESMOOTHIE!