Showing posts with label snickers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snickers. Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2016

Crumbs and Doilies...

Seems fitting that this post follows the last as this darling little cupcake shop is situated in Kingly Court like the restaurants I mentioned in my past post. 

Crumbs and Doilies may not look like much from the outside but inside are the cutest cupcakes you have ever seen. On their website you can browse the over 30 flavours they have or you can visit their shop where they usually have about 8 flavours out everyday.

You can get a full size cupcake or an exact replica as a mini cupcake. As well as cupcakes Crumbs and Doilies does brownies, rocky roads and big cakes. 




When my mum, my sister and I visited we were just in the mood for a little afternoon pick me up so opted for a bottle of water, a cold brew coffee and 3 mini cupcakes.



My chosen mini cupcake was a snickers cupcake, a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter icing drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce and topped with peanuts.


Mum's pick was a buttered popcorn cupcake, I'm not quite sure the flavour of the actual cake part but it definitely tasted like butter popcorn, buttery and slightly salty. Of course it was topped off with actual popcorn and a drizzle of caramel.


Em had a Velvet Volcano cupcake which was a red velvet cupcake on a biscuit base topped with cookies and cream icing. I have to say I was a little envious of this one!


Crumbs and Doilies is owned by Youtube Cupcake Jemma who actually has videos on her youtube channel showcasing recipes and baking. 

It is a small shop but entices you to revisit many times to try out all the flavours. When I go back I want to try the biscoff rocky road or maybe a slice of one of their big cakes.

Monday, 1 August 2016

Snickers Cupcakes...

One day we fancied doing some baking but really wanted to do something extravagant and a little different to usual.

After some thought we settled on Snickers cupcakes. Now you may be thinking that that doesn't sound extravagant at all but these were not just any cupcakes. They were cupcakes with a moist chocolate cake base filled with caramel sauce, topped with peanut butter cream cheese icing, a piece of snickers and MORE caramel sauce mmmm.

We used this recipe from one of my favourite ever baking blogs "Sallys Baking Addiction".
http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2015/09/02/ultimate-snickers-cupcakes/






Do not skip the buttermilk in this recipe because it makes the cupcakes so moist and decadent. Like Sally mentions in her recipe, if you are unable to find buttermilk you can make some using white vinegar or lemon juice with milk. 

The recipe doesn't actually include filling the cupcakes with caramel but for a little extra flourish, squeeze a little bit of caramel sauce into the middle of the cupcake batter when it is in the cupcake bases, this makes for a sweeter and even moister cake.

I hope this post has inspired you to do some baking or just to go and eat cake!