Cranberry Cinnamon Buttercake (Mini!)

 In exactly 12 days time , Christmas will be here . Some cranberry and cinnamon would work for this joyous season . Just thought i'll share one recipe before I start packing for my Vietname trip tomorrow . :)

I've been using this recipe (without cinnamon and cranberry) to bake plain buttercake but I thought since Christmas is coming ,  I could make it more Christmassy . I made these mini buttercake with the new casing I bought from Daiso . It makes the cake really adorable !

One of these cupcake only has 35 g of batter . It's bite-size , which suits Christmas party if you have any isn't it ? :) The sweetness and slightly citrus taste from the cranberry and flavor of cinnamon does match the butter cake really well .

Here's the recipe , try it out this Christmas !

Yield : 5 x 35 g of mini buttercakes

Ingredients :

• Sugar - 40g
• Plain Flour - 50g
• Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp (1.5g)
• Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 tsp (1g)
• Egg - 35g
• Butter , unsalted - 40g
• Vanilla Essence - 1/4 tsp (0.25g)
• Dried Cranberry - 2Tbsp (20g)

Direction : 

Soak dried cranberry in 1/2 cup of warm water for 5 minutes . Drain and set cranberry aside . 

Combine sugar , plain flour , baking powder and cinnamon powder in a medium mixing bowl . Mix well and add in egg , butter and vanilla essence . Lastly , fold in soaked cranberries . Divide batter to fill 3/4 of cake tins . 

Preheat oven to 180°C and bake for 9 - 11 minutes , depending on your oven . 

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Cranberry Milk Chocolate Blondies

Just the other day I suddenly wonder what the difference between Blondie and Brownie is . So I decided to try out both recipes to taste it for myself ! Before this, I always thought "Blondie is like Brownie" like many people around me think but no idea to what extend though ! I found out that Blondie uses brown sugar as its' main ingredient for flavour while brownie uses chocolate . That's one difference !

For this Blondie recipe , I used a milk chocolate cranberry combination :

But of course , if you don't like cranberry or milk chocolate, you can always replace them with your own favourite ! I'm looking forward to try out other flavour combinations .

So after trying brownie and blondie , the difference is pretty obvious . Blondie is more cake like while brownie is more chocolaty. But of course , there are so many recipes available and some have tweak the recipes to suit their own liking and there's also " brownie-blondie " now. 

Here's the recipe:

Yield: A tray of 13 inch x 9 inch (1 cm height)

Ingredients:

• Dried Cranberry - 1/2 cup (60g)
• Unsalted Butter - 90g
• Brown Sugar - 100g
• Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
• Egg - 1/2 no (30g)
• Plain Flour - 3/4 cup (90g)
• Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Milk Chocolate - 1/2 cup (50g)

Direction:

Soak dried cranberry in 2 cups of hot water for 10 minutes . Drain and set aside . Combine unsalted butter and brown sugar, mix well . Add in vanilla essence and egg. Mix well before adding plain flour, baking powder and salt.

Mix well and fold in milk chocolate.

Transfer batter into a 13 inch x 9 inch tray . Preheat oven to 180°C and bake blondie for 18-20 minutes, depending on your oven . 

I'll be sharing the brownie recipe next, stay tune! 

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