A couple days ago several of us were sitting in the park enjoying some afternoon sunshine, when my friends Jelena and Antonia asked me if I knew how to make cupcakes. I said yes, of course, and they suggested we attempt to make some...I admitted that normally the extent of my cupcake baking is dumping a box of mix into a bowl and adding some eggs and oil and throwing it in the oven, but since boxed cake mixes don't really exist here, we decided we'd try to make them totally from scratch. Since I don't have a very big kitchen (and no oven) I was just happy to be able to cook something slightly more complicated than my normal 4 ingredient dinners. So yesterday the three of us met up at Antonia's apartment to make our cupcakes. But first...some amazing homemade Croatian and Greek food for lunch...yum.
Jelena found these at the store! When we were in Slovakia sitting around the fire I was talking about how this would be the perfect time for some s'mores, which of course is a very American thing...so they all thought I was nuts, but hopefully I can bring back some graham crackers (which are nowhere to be found here) at the end of the summer and I can make them all try some.
Now on to actual cupcake baking! Most of our ingredients...
The recipe...which I then tried my best to convert into European measures...which was a bit tricky.
Measuring out things on the pumpkin scale
Mixing the butter and sugar...definitely called for more sugar than any desserts here...
Measuring out dry ingredients and trying to be as exact as possible with the faint lines on the side of the measuring cup.
We have batter! Success!
Filling the cupcake tins
And they baked!...and smelled amazing! We were pretty excited at this point...
Perhaps not the prettiest cupcakes ever...but nothing a little frosting won't fix.
We couldn't find vanilla extract for the frosting, so we used this powdered vanilla from Greece...and it worked quite well
Our colored batches of frosting in the fridge. The past few days have been really hot here, and nobody has air conditioning or anything, so all of our apartments are quite warm, and the frosting was a bit soft...but it worked.
Getting creative with our decorations
Our finished cupcakes! Thankfully we had an end of the semester party to take them to last night so we weren't stuck with tons of cupcakes...
We did it! They turned out really well! Rich chocolatey and sugary and I think everyone enjoyed them!
2 comments:
They look amazing.next time i will join u!steph
Absolutely! We'll definitely make them again :)
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