it’s super simple if you’ve got four good arms for some hella mixing. we found that it didn’t have quite the kick we want from a cake. looking into adding some coffee or nuts next time around.
- 1 cup sugar - 1/2 cup butter (room temperature and soft) - 2 eggs at room temperature also - 1 teaspoon vanilla essence - 1 and 1/4 cup flour - 1 and 3/4 teaspoon baking powder - 1/2 cup milk
mix the butter and sugar until your body hates you (3 minutes is my limit). beat the eggs in one at a time. add the vanilla (and any food colouring is optional. we prefer ORANJE.)
stir in the flour with the baking powder and slowly slowly add to the wet mixture. when it’s pretty much mixed in*, add the milk so that it’s gets to that comfortably thick but not crazy thick batter level.
pour into one 9 inch baking pan. times everything by two if you want a layer cake, but that’s obvious. don’t be simple, butter the pan before and all that junk. oven at 350 for 25 minutes. that is it.
*a note on over-mixing: IF ANYONE KNOWS THE FUCK THAT MEANS PLEASE DROP ME A HINT.
recipe for cupcake from here. though the measurements gave us double the number mini-cupcakes, this is perhaps the best recipe we’ve followed to date. they are scrumptious.
frosting is but butter whipped to hell and back, icing sugar, vanilla extract and melted chocolate. i’ve heard told that adding a pinch of salt cuts back on the sickening sweetness. (humble-brag alert: we are without electric mixers, so you’re looking at the delumptious results of four tired and toned arms.)
this being our first attempt at artsy frosting, they’re a little wibbly wobbly. but give us time and an unlimited supply of cupcakes and we’ll show you just how we could…nom nom.
something went wrong for this batch of muffins. it’s like eating chocolate chip rubber tires.
so on that occassion i’m starting a new website of baking fails called DO NOT FOLLOW THIS RECIPE*.
so DO NOT FOLLOW THIS RECIPE below unless you’re into those lucy lui muffins of death from that first funny charlie’s angels movie.
1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/8 tsp salt 1 egg
1/2 cup milk 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1/2 tsp vanilla
we added chocolate chips and mushed banana just before mixing the wet and dry things. and then a quick crumble on top before throwing it in the oven. but what’s the point of telling you that, it was all terrible anyway. don’t do this.
coffee-chocolate chip muffins. these came out pretty well and are seriously messy to eat.
i may have mentioned many times that i swears on the precious that i do do (heh) things other than bake/cook, instagr.am and eat, that is apparently a lie. at least on weekends, this is all i do. maybe tomorrow i will head out with a gamely attitude for bridesmaids’ dress shopping but all my thought will be bent upon the next delumscious thing to create. this is what i have become.
worth noting: all culinary messes and successes shared/spurred on by my partner-in-crime and sibling, sibling.
leaguerulesfrownupon asked: I was a beekeeper in college to train them for animal learning projects. We had a platform with sugar water they would land on. One day I went out there to catch a bee and there was a wasp that was going around and biting the heads off the bees.
