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1 1/4 cups + 2 tablespoons flour
1/2  teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
112g unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup coconut cream
2 large eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup coconut cream or buttermilk
Pinch of cream of tartar

1/2 tsp of lime curd for each cupcake
cream cheese frosting
1/2 cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 180°c / 350°F. Line 12 cupcake tins with papers. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Beat sugar, butter and 1/2 cup coconut cream in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla extract. On low, beat in dry ingredients and then remaining coconut cream, just until blended.

Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites with pinch of cream of tartar in another large bowl until just stiff . Fold beaten egg whites into batter.

Divide cake batter between pans, fill to 3/4 full. Bake until just golden about 20 minutes. Cool cakes in pans, turn cakes out onto racks and cool completely.

Once cool cut a cone out of the top of each one and fill with Lime curd. Spread cream cheese frosting on top, and roll in shredded coconut to coat.

• 224 g cream cheese, softened
• 58 g butter, softened
• 125 g sifted confectioners’ sugar
• 5 ml vanilla extract

beat butter and cream cheese till creamy then add remaining. makes enough for 24 frosted like icing or 12 piped on.

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Best Chocolate Fudge Cocoa Brownies

140g (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (use some good stuff)
1/4 teaspoon salt (skip if using salted butter)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cold large eggs
1/2 cup all-purpose flour

Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F). Line the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan.

Combine the butter, sugar, cocoa, and salt in a saucepan over very low heat. Stir until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth and hot so that the sugar has started to dissolve a bit but the butter is not burning. Remove from the heat and set aside until the mixture is just slightly warm.

Stir in the vanilla, then add the eggs one at a time, stirring hard after each one. Add the flour and mix thoroughly for about 1 minute with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula. Spread evenly in the lined pan (the batter will be very thick).

Bake until a toothpick emerges with some moist crumbs sticking to it (but not wet with batter), 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely on a rack.

I have spent ages trying to figure out why I am getting this adequately useless error message:

Error: 0xC002F304 at Send Mail Task, Send Mail Task: An error occurred with the following error message: “Failure sending mail.”.
Task failed: Send Mail Task

Msdn provides a list of Integration services error and warning message definitions here, but check out the definition for this one:

DTS_E_ERROROCCURREDWITHFOLLOWINGMESSAGE An error occurred with the following error message: “%1″.

Wow.. an error occured with the following message, failure sending mail, so amazingly descriptive.

Anyway you know you are doing something severely wrong when you do a google search on SMTP Error: 0xC002F304 and only get back about 2 releveant results, and sure enough I was doing something majorly wrong.  Eventually I got so frustrated with the Send Mail task and its complete lack of error debugging information I decided to use the script task to see if that would give me any more.

So I added a new script task and ew put some VB code in and that gave me a different error that was no more descriptive than the last. Anyway that motivated me to open Visual Studio and try the same in goold old C# and sure enough…

My SMTP server was unable to relay to the recipient I had chosen (my personal email). Switched it to my work email and BOOYA all go.