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People don’t mind standing in line 20 minutes or more (up to 1 hour) to get their cupcakes.
Celebrities can be seen lining for them in Beverly Hills.
Oprah Winfrey, Katie Holmes, Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba
+ many other celebrities *hearts* their cupcakes…
They were served at the set of Desperate Housewife
and Suri Cruise’s birthday party.
Martha Stewart featured their cupcake in her “Our Fav cupcake” show
Food network features them a number of times…
So need I say more?
Since they are sooooo unbelievable famous good popular…
give me a reason why I as a self proclaimed foodie
shouldn’t try out their cupcake…
none right?
Off we went to Sprinkles Cupcakes.
As we got nearer, we realized there was a long line of customers
in the store.
@_@
KS ( @_@): Queue-ing to BUY cupcakes?
My bro : OMG!! They are just cupcakes!
Me: quiet leh….
(quiet leh – quiet please)
By this time, the line were so long that their customers
were lining out the door into the sidewalk.
KS: I cannot believe I’m queue-ing for cupcakes. This better be good.
My bro: $#@!$#@ why so long de??
Me: ……… ( busy taking pics )
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the availability card
Initially we wanted to get 3 cupcakes…
( $3.50 for one cupcake )
but KS thought we ought to get a dozen ($36)
since we drove 45 mins and waited 30 mins in line for it…
we wanted our foodie friends to try it too…
My bro: !!!!!! $3.50 for a cupcake??!!!
Me: shhhhh…..
So we bought:
Banana – dark choco fosting x 3
Dark Chocolate x 3
Black & White x 2
Strawberry x 1
Red Velvet x 1
Vanilla x 1
Peanut butter chocolate x 1
And we gave…
Mr A & Mrs Cho : Banana & Dark Chocolate
Cousin JJ & Mr D : Banana & Dark Chocolate
Mr J & Miss Kitman : Banana & Black n White
The tasting:
The PINK – Strawberry cupcake
Generous amount of frosting…
BUT way way way too sweet for our liking.
Need to remove that overly sugared frosting
Cake was soft, moist and flavorful.
pink ratings:
NEXT:
Dark Chocolate Cupcake
Again, frosting was too sweet for us…
but i love the chocolate sprinkles.
KS, Cousin JJ and Mrs Cho are dark chocolate fanatics
and they agreed that
the cake was rich in flavor and moist.
pink ratings:
NEXT:
Red Velvet Cupcake
Knowing the frosting is going to be too sweet for my liking,
I started from the bottom.
I have never tried red velvet so i have no idea what it suppose to taste like…
After my first bite…
I love this tiny red cake!
The taste is good. Not too sweet, moist and it has a unique flavor.
My bro loves it too.
yummy without the topping…
pink ratings:
The rest…
Banana cupcake
Mr A & Mrs Cho : 
Cousin JJ & Mr D :
Mr. J & Miss Kitman :
Mr J likes the frosting.
Black and White cupcake
(Belgian dark chocolate)
KS : 
Miss Kitman :
Peanut butter with chocolate frosting
Mr. bro II :
Me :
Vanilla cupcake
KS : 
Me :
So will we go back to Sprinkles?
With fuel costing $3.89 per gallon
and
Sprinkles cupcakes $3.50 each ( $3.75 with tax )
I’m sure you are smart so…
you go figure.
i might try this though…
Available for sale at my favorite store
so can you.
I believe everyone…
male or female,
young or old,
housewife, doctor or a plumber
can cook and bake.
To me,
I don’t think cooking idiots or baking idiots exist.
Well,
of course…
you got to get arm yourself with a good recipe…
detailed with good instructions
and get those ingredients right.
Yes, with that on hand…
you can never go wrong.
Trust me,
It’s just a walk in a park.
There are so many recipes on the web nowadays…
and so many hundreds I have listed down
on my “to try to cook/bake” list.
I get all excited looking at those delicious pictures of beautiful bakes/food,
reading the method
and shopping for those needed ingredients.
Well, that’s the happy part of the story…
The unhappy sad part is…
you read the method and comments a number of times (10x)…
you spent $$$ getting those quality ingredients…
+ time + energy to prepare it…
BUT
the bakes/food didn’t turn out as beautiful as you have thought they will be.
OR
near pretty to what you have seen on the
author’s website/blog or those cooking forums…
(provided you didn’t experience major hiccups in the process ok)
It is sad isn’t it?
but lesson learnt and you move on…
to the next recipe on your list.
So nowadays,
before i bake or cook anything…
I will read a number of recipe ( 7 at least ) of the same food or bakes…
“Disappointed”
is not the word I want it to exist in
my cooking dictionary.
AND
I do not wish others to encounter
that same word
in their journey of making great food too.
So let’s say
NO
to unsuccessful UGLY bakes!
Light Sponge Cheesecake
Ingredients & Method
Grease & line:
bottom + sides of the baking pan
with baking paper.
If you are using a spring form baking pan,
wrap your pan with 3 layers of aluminum foil
to prevent water from seeping in your baking pan.
Preheat oven:
325F or 160 C
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A
Melt – double boiler method:
50g butter + 250g cream cheese + 50g sour cream
+ 70 ml fresh milk
Remove from heat and
let it cool.
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B
Mix and sieve:
60g cake flour
20g cornflour
1/4 tsp. salt
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C
Mix:
1 tbsp. lemon juice
6 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla essence
with cool A
and then B
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D
Beat:
40g fine granulated sugar
6 egg whites
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
to form SOFT PEAK
DO NOT OVERBEAT
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Fold:
1/2 D to C
Fold gently.
Then fold C to D
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Pour mixture into baking pan.
Bake in water bath for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes.
Turn down the temperature to 315F / 155C and
place an aluminum foil on top of the baking pan
after 45 mins of baking
to prevent burns/crust on the cheesecake.
Cake is done when skewer comes out clean.
For more info,
please refer to this.
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