Christmas Eve Birthday Shoutouts

Yeay!!!! My link lists are finally up. About time too. Anywho, birthday shout outs, Remember the 3 December babies? The ones with the presents?



Well, now that the final birthday is here, and everyone has opened their parcels, I guess it's ok to reveal what was inside them. Trouble is, The pictures of the presents have gone missing....so guys? A little help please? Just snap a shot and send them to me if you can? *giggle* I am such a scatter brain. They each got a dreamcatcher, Handmade by yours truly. Don't know what those are? Well, they look like this:


And you can read more about them ~Here~.

So, Happy Birthday to the three of you. To Tengku and Mayu, I hope it was a pleasant one, which involved a lot of laughing, screaming, talking, relaxing and eating. Same thing applies to you too Huda. To think the three of you are old enough to drive, and pretty soon, vote too!! Though... I'm personally a wee bit more worried about the driving thing... Tengku, Mayu, and Huda..... unleashed on Malaysian roads..... *shudder*

Lol... well I suppose it'll be some time before you're even allowed to handle a car, so we should be safe till then. For now, a couple of virtual cupcakes for you to celebrate. These were made yesterday, the blue ones for a BBQ and the flower sprinkles, just for the heck of it. Chocolate cake, with whipped chocolate ganache in the center and top.

Chocolate cupcakes, makes 27

~50g chocolate, chopped finely.
~3/4 cup HOT coffee
~1 and 1/2 cup all purpose flour
~1 cup cocoa powder
~1 tsp baking soda
~1/2 tsp baking powder
~ 2 pinches salt
~1 and 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp castor sugar
~2 large eggs
~3/4 cup vegetable oil
~3/4 cup buttermilk (just mix roughly equal parts of yogurt and milk together)
~3/4 tsp vanilla extract

1) Stir together chocolate and coffee till chocolate dissolves, set aside.
2)Sift four, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder together in a big bowl. Mix in sugar and salt. Set aside.
3)In a medium bowl, beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, coffee mixture and vanilla till combined. Set aside.
4) Stir wet mixture into dry mixture. Batter will be runny.
5) Fill cupcake liners till about half full.
6) Bake in a 160'C oven for (give or take) 20-30 minutes, or until cake tester poked in the middle of the cupcake comes out clean.

Happy Christmas Eve Everyone!!