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Winner Of The 2010 Yuppiechef Cupcake Baking Competition
Click here to see the winners announcement on Yuppiechef:
This caramel apple cupcake recipe was a beta test- a delicious cinnamon and chopped tart apple base topped with a lightly caramel butter icing, some caramel and a creme caramel square!
This set of recipes is straight out of another one of my cupcake recipe books! “Crazy About Cupcakes” by Krystina Castella is an awesome book that has a collection of cupcake recipes, icing recipes, decorating tips and ideas, and then a whole set of recipes combining various recipes in interesting ways!
How the “beta testing” works is that I try something new, and you tell me what you think! If you want to try one of these recipes, there’s a small price to cover the cost of the ingredients. These cupcake and cookie experiments will cost you R70 each. Cake and cheesecake experiments will cost you R100 each. Only one “batch” of each recipe is available, so its first-come-first-served. Your order will have to be collected from me in Midrand. Biscuits can wait for collection, but cakes and cupcakes and such need to be collected the day they are baked, or a day later at most.
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and tell me which one you would like to try, I will then email you further details.
So here’s the list of recipes I am going to be attempting.
This week’s Cupcake Club order was a yummy mixture!
There was a chocolate cupcake with a caramel secret centre and chocolate butter icing, a tarte tatin (upside down apple tart) cupcake, and a strawberry cheesecake cupcake!
I was really fed up when I realised I hadn’t taken a picture of the Tarte Tatin (upside down apple tart cupcakes), especially since I had to do them twice! The first batch has an okay batter, but I ruined the caramel sauce and it turned into a burnt caramel sauce that looked and smelled too dreadful. So I did them again. The second time they were perfect and my fiancé reckons they’re the best Tarte Tatin I’ve ever done! And they are a lot of work with the apple in the batter and the glazed apple slices and home-made caramel sauce…
The other hald of this order was chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and a chocolate malted honeycomb ball topping. I outdid myself on the icing for this one if I say so myself…
I hope you enjoy them Marleen.
This week, I had vanilla sample boxes available. I sold 11 of these for R40 each, and when I put the offer out there I had no idea what I was actually going to do with them!
I ended up with several “regular” cupcakes, just cake and icing and sprinkles, several “decadent” cupcakes and a few luxury cupcakes too!
Some of the pictures have descriptions- click on a picture to see it.
