Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Chocolate Red Velvet Cupcakes with Fresh Mint Icing and Chocolate Ganache Filling // Cupcakes de Chocolate Red Velvet com Cobertura de Hortelã Fresca e Recheio de Ganache de Chocolate

Part of this recipe is in my first video on Trending Recipes YouTube channel:
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Parte desta receita está no meu primeiro vídeo no Canal de YouTube do Trending Recipes:


I'm so excited! This time I tried to do something different, so I decided to film my first recipe video and create this blog's own YouTube Channel. It's very raw, I know, but this was only my first attempt and I'm not the type of girl who gives up that easily, so hopefully I'll be making better videos in a couple of months - or decades, depending on how much faith you have on me.

I left out the filling bit on the video - mainly because I was too excited taking photos and forgot all about filming that step. Which, believe me, will take these cupcakes to a whole new level. So if you're a reader rather than a watcher, congrats!, you've just won a special feature on the original recipe! If you're not... well, then you're not reading this anyway. ;)

I hope you enjoy this Chocolate Red Velvet Cupcakes with Fresh Mint Icing and Chocolate Ganache Filling.



Ingredients:

CUPCAKES:
2 eggs
125g sugar
125g butter
125g flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tea spoon red coloring liquid 

ICING:
150g butter
150g cream cheese
250g powdered sugar
chopped mint

GANACHE:
100g chocolate
100g cream

Beat the eggs and the sugar. Slowly add the butter, the flour, the cocoa powder and the red food coloring liquid.


Fill cupcake paper cases half way and place them on a baking tray. Bake them for 15 minutes at 170ºC.


For the icing, beat the butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar. Add the chopped mint and mix. 

Prepare the ganache, by heating the cream and the chocolate. Stir, until the chocolate melts. Do not let the cream boil - take it out of the heat if necessary.

When the cupcakes are cold, use a knife to make a hole on each cupcake. Fill them with the ganache. Slice the top parts you took from the cupcakes so you are left with a kind of lid, and use them to "close" your cupcakes. 


With the help of a spoon, cover each cupcake with the mint icing. 

Decorate with strawberries and serve with the remaining ganache (someone might find it irresistible to dip the strawberries in it. trust me: someone always does).

Enjoy!
Estou tão empolgada! Desta vez tentei fazer qualquer coisa diferente, por isso decidi filmar o meu primeiro vídeo com uma receita e criar um canal de YouTube para o blog. É muito cru, eu sei, mas foi a minha primeira tentativa e não sou do género de rapariga que desiste assim tão facilmente, por isso hei-de estar a fazer vídeos melhores daqui a uns meses - ou décadas, dependendo de quanta fé depositam em mim.

Não incluí a parte do recheio no vídeo - principalmente porque estava demasiado empolgada a tirar fotos que me esqueci de filmar esse passo. O que, acreditem, eleva estes cupcakes a outro nível. Por isso, se és mais leitor que espectador, parabéns!, acabaste de ganhar um bónus na receita originl! Se não és... bem, então nem estás a ler isto. ;)


Espero que gostem destes Cupcakes de Chocolate Red Velvet com Cobertura de Hortelã Fresca e Recheio de Ganache de Chocolate.


Ingredientes:

CUPCAKES:
2 ovos
125g açúcar
125g manteiga
125g farinha
2 colheres de sopa de cacau em pó
1 colher de chá de corante vermelho

COBERTURA:
150g manteiga
150g queijo creme
250g açúcar em pó
hortelã picada

GANACHE:
100g chocolate
100g natas

Batam os ovos e o açúcar. Lentamente acrescentem a manteiga, a farinha, o cacau em pó e o corante vermelho líquido.

Encham as formas de papel até metade e coloquem-nas num tabuleiro de ir ao forno. Cozam-nos durante 15 minutos a 170ºC.

Para a cobertura, batam a manteiga, o queijo creme e o açúcar em pó. Juntem a hortelã picada e misturem.

Preparem o ganache, aquecendo as natas e o chocolate. Mexam, até que o chocolate derreta. Não deixem as natas ferverem - tirem-nas do lume se for necessário.


Quando os cupcakes tiverem arrefecido, usem uma faca para fazer um buraco em cada cupcake. Encham-nos com o ganache. Cortem uma fatia em cada parte de cima que tiraram de modo a ficarem com uma espécie de tampa, e usem-nas para "fechar" os vossos cupcakes.

Com a ajuda de uma colher, cubram cada cupcake com a cobertura de hortelã.

Decorem com morangos e sirvam com o ganache que sobrar (alguém pode achar irresistível mergulhar lá os morangos. confiem em mim: há sempre alguém que acha).

Bom apetite!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Banana-milkshaking off bad vibes

This is my last Sunday before work starts again. And no, this is not a post about how these holidays will be missed: I'm one of those who love my job and couldn't wait to get back [of course: weekends of 3 to 4 days would be greatly appreciated, but I guess that's asking for too much, isn't it?]. 
But I'm half-expecting the first conversations to be something like "Oh... I was so well in bed... I wish I were still on holidays...". From me, all everyone is getting is "I MISSED YOU SO MUCH." From the heart.

... or maybe this is just because I spent the whole afternoon ironing. So after I was done I felt I needed something refreshing and sweet at the same time to compensate for the things-I-can't-escape-from time. As some of you might have noticed, my tag menu on the sidebar is rather loooong. But it does fit a purpose. One of my biggest mistakes is the way I manage the ingredients I buy: sometimes I end up not using half of the items I have before time has a "not suitable for use anymore" effect on them. So I often google for recipes that might help me use up those ingredients. Today I had a couple of bananas that were too ripe for my liking. Perfect timing! I gave half of one (in small portions) to my dog as a treat [saw it in Dog Whisperer - love the show - and I don't know why I hadn't come up with that one before] and used the other one and a half to make a classic banana milkshake.



Simply pour 6 ice cubes, 2 cups of milk, 1 or 2 bananas, and 1/4 cup of sugar (I used a lot less - 3 tablespoons - because the bananas, being so ripe, were sweet enough) into a blender.

Mix for 20 seconds and pour in a glass

You can have some fun decorating it as well. I used some mint leaves today.

Enjoy!