Christmas Chocolate Cupcakes

Was away in the weeks before Christmas and touched down on home soil only on Christmas Day. Since we were having a family Christmas lunch on Boxing Day, decided to make some Christmas chocolate cupcakes at the very last minute.

Christmas season

Used my basic chocolate cupcake recipe, topped it with chocolate butter cream and added some Christmas decorations and voila! here comes the very easy-to-make Christmas chocolate cupcakes.

Christmas chocolate cupcakes - one of my friends said that they looked very 'pro' :)

Another set of Christmas chocolate cupcakes but with vanilla icing.

Bookmark & Share

Recipes for X'mas - Pineapple Tarts

Tis the season to be jolly.....

X'mas is slightly more than a month away & many will be starting to prepare for the festivities of the season soon.

Here is a recipe for Pineapple Tarts that I love and which many have tried & ordered every single year.

Ingredients:-

A
114 g plain flour
114 g self raising flour

B
142g butter

C
1 egg
1 tsp cold water

D
egg wash (beaten yolk/milk)

E
500g - 750g pineapple jam (can be bought from supermarkets & shops selling baking items)


Method:-

Sieve A.
Mix A and B with fingertips till crumbly.
Add in C and knead into a dough.

Wrap in plastic foil and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Roll dough till slightly less than half a cm.
Use cookie cutter to cut into shapes.
Place on greased baking tray (or baking tray lined with baking sheet).
Bake blind in preheated 190 degrees C oven for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven & brush with egg wash.
Roll the pineapple jam into balls and place on baked dough.
*Optional:- place design on top of jam
Bake in preheated 190 degrees C oven for 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and leave to cool before storing in air-tight container.

Makes approximately 50 little pineapple tarts.
The amount of pineapple jam is up to you. I prefer using more jam so much so that one of my friends calls them "jam-on-tarts". My brother refers to them as "Dolly's Glory".

Tip:- Especially when making large quantities, I use the universal blade of the Braun machine that I have to knead A & B and mix with the egg and water mixture. This really saves a lot of time and energy.