Baking 101

We have been planning on baking for quite some time already... The waiting comes to a halt today. After registering at the Philippine Nurses Association we immediately went to JS Gaisano Mall to get some groceries for our ingredients!

Since Celine is already a baking type of person. She had ebooks about it and we followed this specific recipe by Martha Stewart :)

What we used:
 

This is buttermilk. I initially wanted to vlog about this baking experience but then I had a lot of epic fail moments while introducing the ingredients so I'd rather not and it has something to do with buttermilk. Well, I've learned that day that you can make buttermilk with evaporated milk and vinegar. Yes, I was that stupid. Is it just me? Am I alone on this one? Anyone? Haha





Our cupcakes are extra fluffy because we should have filled the lined cups only three quarters full but I... Yes, I take the blame... Filled it all the way up but no regrets just lessons learned. We also medled with the coloring. We added and added until we achieved our desired redness. We were bothered about tasting the dye if we put too much but our worries were proven null when we tasted the finished product ;)

For the frosting... We used these:


Celine taught us the techniques on how to do the thing... Pokie kept pestering me about being to slow. Haha!  I'm a beginner for heaven's sake. He's such a bully. He was having his OCness that day because he kept wiping off the dirt or anything that looks messy for him. So rest assured our cupcakes are clean... I guess. You have to make the cupcakes cool down a little bit before decorating it and stuff.


After frosting all the cupcakes I really wanted to put sprinkles on them but Celine only had this Christmas-y sprinkles which were a mixture of greens and reds but we only needed the reds so we ended up sorting the sprinkles. Budi did a great job with the sorting.
So what did we do with the greens? Well...

Pokie ate this. It's bread with the frosting topped with the green sprinkles. He's got one hell of a sweet tooth.

Let me share to you a closer look on our fabulous cupcakes. No bias, our cupcakes are simply delicious and  mouthwatering. Love your own! But really... it tastes awesome!

We have to give Martha Stewart the credits for the recipe and for making our lives easier :)
The set up courtesy by Celine Conanan. Thank you for welcoming us to your lovely home!
What do you think guys? Should we be open for business? Haha.
I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time we'll bake. We had so much fun. Watch out for more. Thank you for reading!