I am personally loving baking with my kids during this time. It is a bonding experience. I am so used to baking being my job that I don’t actually spend any time with them getting creative in the kitchen. Until now! We made these absolutely scrummy triple choc brownies last week and loved every moment! Jazz yours up with a variety of sprinkles of even just melting some extra chocolate and drizzling over the top. Lets bake people happy 😘
From the mouth of babes!
This part is written by my daughter Olivia (aged 9). “Making the brownies was definitely an interesting and yummy project because I was very keen to see how the scrumptious combined to make a delicious and yummy treat. I enjoyed the fact that my sister and I had to work together to weigh up the ingredients and then stir it all together. My sister Bella was good at cracking the eggs, removing the shell and doing the sprinkles. I was good at weighing the exact amount of ingredients as I enjoy Maths. Most of all I loved the eating part! Triple Choc Brownies are the best!”
Ingredients
300 g butter
3/4 cup cocoa
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups plain flour
250 g dark choc nibs
250 g white choc nibs
100g chopped pecans (optional)
Method
Weigh up your butter, cocoa powder, flour, brown sugar, chocolate nibs & pecans.
Melt your butter in the microwave – 10 seconds should do it.
Add in your eggs and mix.
Sift a big spoon of flour at a time into the butter & eggs – making sure to mix after each addition.
Sift your cocoa powder straight into the mixing bowl on top of the flour.
Sprinkle in your choc chips & pecans.
Mix well.
Pour into lined baking pan.
Bake for 30-40 mins or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn onto wire rack.
Decorate!
Choc Buttercream
Combine:
125g unsalted butter, softened
250 pure icing sugar
2-3 tablespoons whole milk
1⁄4 teaspoon of high quality pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
💡Anna’s Tips!
Don’t fancy plain ol’ vanilla buttercream, then substitute the vanilla essence with other flavours!
Squeeze of fresh orange
Tablespoon of blended raspberries
Tablespoon of pureed strawberries
Shot of coffee
Always work with your ingredients at room temperature – you will thank me for this!
Use the best quality ingredients that you can afford – cupcakes are a treat so be good to yourself and don’t bake with rubbish.
If your buttercream splits then slowly add a little more icing sugar until it comes together.
Add melted white, milk or dark chocolate to your buttercream for white choc buttercream!
Enjoy our helpful little video
Other easy recipes to give a go
Quick Cupcakes for Kids: https://theccc.com.au/quick-cupcakes-for-kids/
Martha’s Top 5 Healthy Baking Tips from Her Latest Cookbook, “A New Way to Bake”: https://www.marthastewart.com/1513122/marthas-top-healthy-baking-tips
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What could be more fun than your very own cupcake party with us at The CCC headquarters in Mosman! Learn more about our kid’s parties HERE
This has been the buttercream icing recipe I have been using since I started cake decorating with my Grandmother (Nannie) 40 years ago! This is so basic, super easy to pipe, tastes great, sets nicely and is very versatile with colours and flavourings of your choice! My darling Nannie shared her little book of secret recipes with me before she passed away and I am so grateful to her for that. How many of you struggle to make the delicious buttercream that pipes perfectly every time?
Let’s keep this simple!
When our bakers start with us at The CCC we spend so much time working on buttecrream. Why? Well, it can be a very fickle thing and you need to know how to ‘read’ your buttercream. I’ve had days where the warmth of the mixing paddle actually started cooking the butter so it ended up splitting just as we were piping over 1000 cupcakes! When we first did Valentine’s Day, we made over 3000 red velvet cupcakes and piped them all with red buttercream roses. Sounds simple huh? Wrong! This was a nightmare. The kitchen looked like a massacre had occurred with red food colouring splattered across the ceiling, our staff’s hands and the walls…and then the 20 kg bowl of red buttercream split! So you really do have to take your time to really perfect your buttercream and take every step slowly, tweaking here and there.
Ingredients
125g unsalted butter, softened
250 pure icing sugar
2-3 tablespoons whole milk
1⁄2 teaspoon of high quality pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste (don’t be tempted to add more otherwise it may taste bitter)
Method
Make sure your butter is room temperature
Cream the butter using your whisk or mix master (or lovely Kitchenaid if you have one) until it starts looking more white rather than cream-coloured.
Sift in your icing sugar slowly whilst continuing to mix. Always use pure icing sugar and not the mixture.
Combine your milk and vanilla.
💡Anna’s Tips!
Don’t fancy plain ol’ vanilla buttercream, then substitute the vanilla essence with other flavours!
Squeeze of fresh lemon
Squeeze of fresh orange
Tablespoon of blended raspberries
Tablespoon of pureed strawberries
Shot of coffee
Always work with your ingredients at room temperature – you will thank me for this!
Use the best quality ingredients that you can afford – cupcakes are a treat so be good to yourself and don’t bake with rubbish.
If your buttercream splits then slowly add a little more icing sugar until it comes together.
Add melted white, milk or dark chocolate to your buttercream for white choc buttercream!
Create two-tone buttercream by filling half of your piping bag with one colour of buttercream and the other half with another colour. Use a Wilton 1M nozzle to get this exact effect on top of your cupcake.
Use a glass or cup to help you fill your piping bag with buttercream!
Enjoy our helpful little video
Other easy recipes to give a go
Quick Cupcakes for Kids: https://theccc.com.au/quick-cupcakes-for-kids/
Martha’s Top 5 Healthy Baking Tips from Her Latest Cookbook, “A New Way to Bake”: https://www.marthastewart.com/1513122/marthas-top-healthy-baking-tips
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What could be more fun than your very own cupcake party with us at The CCC headquarters in Mosman! Learn more about our kid’s parties HERE
There’s nothing like a handy little recipe! Let’s me show you how to make some deliciously quick cupcakes that the whole family will enjoy!
Have this one up your sleeve
I always think that having key recipes up your sleeve is a must! It was for this very reason that I started The CCC! My Grandmother shared her little book of secret recipes with me before she passed away and I am so grateful to her for that. Included was this wonderfully easy cupcake recipe that we would beg her to make with us (reminding her that there were no longer butter rations!) Now let’s get started!
Ingredients
1200 g plain flour (sieved)
150 g caster sugar
125 g butter (room temperature)
125 ml milk (room temperature)
2 large eggs (room temperature)
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
1tsp pure vanilla extract
Method
Warm up the oven 170C (160C for fan oven)
Put ALL the ingredients together into the mixing bowl and mix by hand or on a slow speed until no lumps remain.
Put batter into cupcake cases using a cup, ice cream scoop or spoon. Fill 3/4 of each case
Fill your cases up to weigh between 36g-38g for the perfect cupcake ready to decorate with buttercream frosting.
Bake until springy to touch (approx. 18-20 mins depending on your oven).
Gently open your oven door when the cupcakes are ready and place onto wire baking rack to cool completely before decorating (or, if you are like me, wait 1 minute before enjoying one warm from the oven – you can’t beat it!).
💡Anna’s Tips!
For delicious a light chocolate cupcakes, replace 35g of the flour with high quality cocoa powder – super easy!
Always work with your ingredients at room temperature – you will thank me for this!
Make sure to warm your oven up when you start mixing everything together so that it has reached the desired temperature when you need to use it!
Use the best quality ingredients that you can afford – cupcakes are a treat so be good to yourself and don’t bake with rubbish.
Martha’s Top 5 Healthy Baking Tips from Her Latest Cookbook, “A New Way to Bake”: https://www.marthastewart.com/1513122/marthas-top-healthy-baking-tips
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What could be more fun than your very own cupcake party with us at The CCC headquarters in Mosman! Learn more about our kid’s parties HERE
We have been running kid’s parties and classes for over seven years now. We know how each child is unique so we tailor the party to suit all ages, skill-levels and interests. In January we launched our new party location called “The Studio” in Mosman, just around the corner from our bakery. Due to the popularity of cupcake parties at our bakery, The Studio has been booked out throughout January & February!
Party on us
We are offering one family the chance to host their very own kid’s cupcake party FREE! The party will take place in our Studio in Mosman for 8 guests. So what’s the catch?! We just request that we photograph your party so that we can use those images to promote our kid’s parties throughout Sydney. You would also receive a digital copy of all photos to share with friends and family following the party.
Each cupcake party-goer will learn al they need to to create masterful works of art! Your kids will leave our party beaming with joy, six personalised cupcakes, a certificate and buttercream on their lips! What a joy to see each child take home everything they make! Six delicious and very professional cupcakes are the best lolly bag anyone could ask for!
Published on June 14, 2019 by Flower Delivery Reviews
Would you like to send baked goodies and sweets to a family and friends in Sydney? If you can’t make your own cake, it’s time to order from these top ranking bakeries in terms of quality and delivery.
From mini cupcakes to giant ones, The Classic Cupcake Co. is your go-to baker for the best cupcakes in Sydney! On top of offering cupcakes in different sizes, colors, and themes, The Classic Cupcake Co. also offers cake pops and other sweet decors.
Guest post was written by Robyn de Beer of Mrs D plus 3
Forget disco diva’s, pirate mateys and twirling fairies … The Classic Cupcake Company’s delightfully fun cupcake decorating birthday parties are literally as ‘sweet as cupcakes’.
Your little chefs will walk out as proud as punch with their new buttercream skills and cutie-patootie (beautifully decorated) cupcakes.
Icing Breakers
Before the girls got down to the business of actually icing cupcakes they each took a turn to tell the birthday girl one thing they loved about her. An activity I’ve not seen done before at a birthday party but it was a wonderful ice (ing) breaker and ended in the biggest girl bonding group hug I’ve ever seen. So sweet.
Let’s get this party started
All the girls were given six deliciously naked cupcakes, a piping bag, buttercream in a choice of colours and an assortment of treasures for decorating.
With hands washed and aprons tied, they were ready to get the party started. First up the birthday girl chose her favourite song (which happened to be Justin Bieber) and they all shook and shimmered around the kitchen.
The art of buttercream
Whistle while you work
With tunes aplenty, the girls really got stuck in their creativity. Edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkles and lustre dust aplenty, it was a joy watching them carefully decorate each cupcake using the skills they’d just learnt.
The Classic Company staff were constantly on hand, answering questions and helping each little pair hands work.
Half a dozen delights
What a joy to see each child take home everything they make! Six delicious and very professional cupcakes are the best lolly bag anyone could ask for!
Each cupcake queen left the party with a personalised certificate of cupcake excellent, six personal masterpieces safely stored in a gift box and a Cheshire cat smile to book.
Booking a birthday party or cupcake holiday workshop is really easy. Pop over to The Classic Cupcake Co Kids Academy for more details.
I really am committed to cupcakes and I have my late Grandmother to thank for that!
She started me young. She started young, and her mother before her! I thank her for insisting on cracking the perfect Vanilla recipe and buttercream before getting overly creative.
I really am committed to cupcakes and I have my late Grandmother to thank for that!
She started me young. She started young, and her mother before her! I thank her for insisting on cracking the perfect Vanilla recipe and buttercream before getting overly creative.
