My younger niece, Lyn, was asking for cupcakes two weeks ago and I said that I would bake them when I next stay over at her house. Didn't plan to go to my sis's place this weekend but my BIL messaged me early last week to go over so that I could help coach his boy, Ry, on his Principles of Accounts. So went to get a packet of chocolate buttons during the week to be used during the baking session early this morning.
Followed my usual cupcake recipe but this time I tripled the usual portion estimating that it would yield about 15 cupcakes. After I was done mixing the ingredients, added about 100g of chocolate buttons to the mixture and separated the mixture into three portions. Added the red food coloring to one portion and the blue food coloring to another portion. Spooned the original mixture into the 12 silicon muffin cases lined with cupcake cases as well as three aluminum muffin cases lined with cupcake cases and then followed by the pink mixture and blue mixture.
After filling up the 15 cupcake cases, I still had some mixture left and so had to prepared another two more cupcake cases. However, I was down with only one aluminum muffin case and so the other cupcake case was without any mould. Put all of them into the oven and set it to bake at 160 degree celsius for 20 minutes. The cupcakes expanded and those in the silicon muffin cases went out of shapes coz they were placed too closely together and the one without the mould was dripping mixture to the bottom of the oven. Only those in the aluminum muffin cases looked nice. This time the cupcakes didn't cracked as much as my previous few rounds. In fact, this time the surface of the cupcakes was rather smooth and I could have done glace frosting on them if I wanted to.
After the 20 minutes was up, did the satay stick test and it came out clean but I set the cupcakes to bake for another two minutes before bringing them out to cool. Unmolded them before taking some photos of my creations and then did the taste test. The taste was just nice, not too sweet and could taste the semi-dark chocolate chips. My BIL commented that the blue color looked green and hence made the cupcakes seemed mouldy. Well, the surface of the cakes was of brownish tone and so made the blue looked green but the inside of the cake, the blue was obvious and the red was like pink. Perhaps next time I should put the blue color mixture as the base, follows by the pink mixture and tops with the original mixture.
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