Black and White Cupcakes

Black and White Cupcakes

Have you ever had black and white cookies and wonder why only cookies can be two different flavors? Most cakes and cupcakes tend to only be one flavor. So for a bake sale at my school, I decided I was going to make black and white cupcakes. 

I started by just making my vanilla and chocolate batters. 

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Ingredients:                                                                                                               Yield: 12 Cupcakes

2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened          

3/4 cup sugar                                        

1 1/2 cup self rising flour                     

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 

2- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy using an electric mixer

3- Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each

4- Add vanilla and flour. Mix just until fully incorporated

Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Ingredients                                                                                                                                               Yield: 12 Cupcakes

1 Cup Flour

1/8 Teaspoon Baking Soda

1-1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 Cup and 1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder

1/8 Teaspoon Salt

3  Tablespoons Unsalted Butter, Softened

1 Cup and 2 Tablespoons Sugar

2 Eggs

1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

3/4 Cup Milk

1-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2-  Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, and salt. Set aside

3- Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy

4- Add the eggs and vanilla mixing just until combined

5- Alternately mix in the flour mixture and the milk

Line a muffin pan with paper or foil wrappers. Once that is done, fill one half of the wrapper with vanilla batter. I suggest using the vanilla first as it has a thicker consistency and should stay in place better. Once the vanilla batter is in, fill in the rest of the wrapper with chocolate batter.

Bake the cupcakes in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Then let them cool.

Once the cupcakes are completely cool decorate half with vanilla icing and half with chocolate icing respectively.

And that's it! 24 simple, fun, and different cupcakes you can make for any occasion. Bake sales, birthdays, holidays, or if you are just bored! Enjoy! Happy Baking and

Don't forget to put a burry on it!

xoxo- Rayburry

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut Macaroons

Many people are currently celebrating either Easter or Passover around now. So in honor of that, I thought I would post a kosher for Passover coconut macaroon recipe. 

I went to my grandmother's for the seder for the first night of Passover and brought a batch of these macaroons and my whole family loved them. 

Ingredients                                                                                                                Yield: 24 Cookies 

3 cups sweetened, shredded, coconut

4 large eggs

1/2 cup sugar                                                

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F

Toast the coconut for five minutes or until just barely starting to show color (optional)

Whisk the eggs in a stand mixer until they hold soft peaks

Gradually add in sugar and whisk until it holds stiff peaks

Whisk in the vanilla and salt

Fold in vanilla

Take the batter and shape your macaroons

Place them onto a prepared baking sheet and bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes

I toasted the cocunut on my macaroons and it gave them a deeper and richer coconut flavor but it is completely optional. If you decide to do it, there are many ways to toast coconut. I suggest spreading it out on a baking sheet lined with tinfoil or parchment paper and bake it in the oven for five minutes.

I then did not feel like forming perfect macaroon shapes so I took my ice cream scooper and just formed my cookies that way, which explains the strange shape my cookiees created. 

I hope you all have a Happy Easter or Passover, and if you celebrate neither, then just have a wonderful weekend!

Don't forget to put a burry on it!

xoxo- Rayburry