Urrrg. That is how you will feel when you consume as much of this as I have. My advice - do not sample it at all then you won’t have to try and stop yourself from eating it by the spatula-full.
How to turn sweetened condensed milk into this after the jump…
These are so, so good.
This is my second batch so I can pretty much guarantee that if you like coconut and dense cakes then you will like these. And cherries. I have more of a glace cherry addiction than I like to admit and nothing beats biting into what appears to be a plain cake and finding hidden whole glace cherries in there. Ohh baby.
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So I got asked to make a cake for my boss at work. First they suggested a 3D Porsche, and after reading this, I decided that was a decidedly bad (read screw that no way in hell can I do that, ever) plan. So I set about making a Porsche crest from fondant and icing.
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I bought some cream cheese at the supermarket today and tried another attempt at probably one of my most favourite bakery/cafe items ever. You know the type, you always buy them but can never find a recipe that comes close.
Now there are literally thousands of recipes out there for cream cheese muffins, but in most of them the cream cheese is beaten in to the wet ingredients. The perfect cream cheese muffin to me requires delicious chunks of cream cheese goodness. The recipe below I use when I need to use up any fruit, you can use whatever you have on hand or in a tin (I used canned strawberries lol).
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well after far too many cupcakes - I decided to make something a bit healthier… except that kind of backfires on me.. you see I always eat like one cupcake and give the rest away. However, I can never give muffins away, they just aren’t cute enough. Or perfect enough. Or yum enough.
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well i tried to make some super yum cupcakeys for my awesome friend Hong but I had no cocoa… so I tried my best to make do with what random ingredients I had… so I found this recipe on epicurious and modified it a tad. The original recipe calls for 200grams of chocolate all up.
recipe + pics after the jump…
update ahhh I missed out on the best camera on trademe ever, sigh.
I did a swap at work, lunch for cupcakes! I thought I got a pretty sweet deal 
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ahhh I finally got around to upgrading my wordpress so I can post again right! first things first…
for my 21st I said i would bake the cake if someone bought me the tin i wanted (hey, saved my folks the cost of buying a cake :P) so of course I requested the new Wilton dimenstions cupcake tin
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