Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

Tag Archives: Frostings & Sauces

Nutella Chip Biscoff Blondies with Nutella Ganache Frosting

So. For a long time I was on the hunt for some sort, any sort, of Biscoff. I had heard so much about the cookies, about the spread, and about people flying with Delta Airlines just to eat some of this goodness. I knew there was Speculoos and Biscoff and Cookie Butter, and I just wanted any version of anything I could get my hands on. Getting my hands on … Continue reading →

Cookies and Cream Cake

I made a cake! Let’s have a party. I hardly ever make cake. Well, not traditional cake anyway. Brownies, blondies, cookies and pies are much more to my liking, so that’s what I end up baking most of the time. I am grateful for culinary school, in that I have to bake things that I would never make otherwise. Because I would never bake a pound cake, madeira cake, genoise … Continue reading →

Oreos

Oreos. Great with milk. Great in ice cream. Great by themselves. And now you can have homemade oreos. And you can put as much vanilla “creme” in the centres as you like! These actually taste like oreos. That’s the first thing everyone said when they tried them. The biscuits could be a little thicker. And a little denser maybe? But they do taste like oreos. These cookies are chocolatey and … Continue reading →

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

Continuing on with wanting to learn more about cupcakes for my new job, today I decided to make a simple vanilla cupcake. This is a denser cake, not as light and fluffy as I would expect a cupcake to be, but has a nice vanilla flavour. The chocolate buttercream really adds to the cupcake, as plain vanilla-flavoured cupcakes can easily be boring! VANILLA CUPCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM Adapted from the … Continue reading →

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting

On Tuesday, I started a new job at a lovely little cupcake shop! I haven’t made too many cupcakes in my time, so I thought that I should give them a try, if only to learn more about them and their ingredients. At the cupcake shop, the cupcakes they make come in an array of beautiful flavours, they use no artificial colours or flavouring, and they have a light buttercream … Continue reading →

Nutella and Cream Whoopie Pies

Nutella and cream has always been a popular combination at my house. When I was growing up Mum would make the crepes and Dad would whip the cream while I stuck my fingers into the jar of Nutella. Then crepes filled with Nutella and cream were occasionally dinner. It all goes so well together that I decided I had to fill whoopie pies with it. And it worked brilliantly! I … Continue reading →

Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

Before Borders went broke, massively on sale and then shut its doors, I used to love going in there and spending hours sitting in the comfy armchairs and looking through all the baking books, deciding whether they were worth buying or not (I guess that’s why it went bankrupt – everyone sat around and read the books, no one bought anything). About a year ago, a book called Whoopie Pies … Continue reading →

Devil’s Food Cake

On Tuesday it was my brother’s 12th birthday. I wanted to make him something special to celebrate the milestone, and at the same time use the opportunity to try out a new recipe. I don’t really love cake. I mean, why have crumbly cake when you can have silky lemon tart or molten chocolate fondants? But I was inspired by the four-layer Devil’s Food Cake recipe in Jill O’Connor’s Sticky, Chewy, … Continue reading →