Madeleines

Madeleines are small shell-shaped sponge cakes originated from Commercy of northeastern France. I received two pretty good quality madeleine baking pans from the States last Wednesday and it was just in time since I have friend visiting me on Thursday. I made about two dozens of traditional madeleines, and my friend and I together with our kids had them for tea on Thursday afternoon. These little cakes are pretty easy to make and my sons love snacking on them, so I am definitely going to be making more madeleines soon.

Embossed Cupcakes

Tomorrow is my birthday... I baked these cupcakes for myself. Happy Birthday to me... and this year I only have one simple wish... TO BE HAPPY.

Vanilla and Cranberries Cupcakes

There will be a few hours of power interruption at my house tomorrow, so I decided to use up as much items in the fridge as possible. What's a better solution then to bake some cupcakes! I can use up the eggs, butter, milk and my buttercream. I made some vanilla cupcakes and added dried cranberries and blueberries into the cake batter. These cupcakes are for some of my new friends i met at Juilan's enrichment class recently. They are all mommies of Julian's classmates. Sometimes we will have coffee together while waiting for the kids, and I have always wanted to bake some cakes for them and their children. I didn't have much time today so these were just simply decorated with buttercream swirl and some fondant flowers and butterflies. I hope my friends and their kids will like them.