Banana cupcakes with caramel frosting

Found the recipe for these cupcakes at Call Me cupcake. It's a very inspiring swedish blog with lots of beautiful pictures and great recipes.  On the site it's listed in cups, so here ir is in grams.

Banana cupcakes
- 28 cupcakes

•270 g siftet all purpose flour
•1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
•3/4 teaspoon baking powder
•3/4 teaspoon salt
•1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
•170 g soft, unsalted butter
•300 g brown sugar
•3 large eggs
•4 very ripe, large bananas, mashed
•180 ml buttermilk
•1/2 teaspoon vanilla extracts
•120 g chopped pecan nuts (optional)

Notes: If you use salted butter, then leave out the salt, you otherwise need to add. If you don't have buttermilk you can make a good substitution by adding lemon juice to the milk. The mixture proportion is 1 tablespoon to 250 ml milk. 


1. Preheat the oven to 175°C (350°F) and prepare the muffin tins with liners.
2. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Mix bananas, buttermilk and vanilla in another bowl.
4. Beat together butter and sugar, after which eggs are added one at a time.
5. Add the dry and the wet ingredients to the butter in 3 round, starting and ending with the dry.
6. Fill the liners and bake for 15-20 min. Let them cool completely before frosting them.

These cupcakes are really moist and stay this way for several days. I didn't add the nuts, but I think they would only make the cakes better.

Caramel frosting
This frosting is a Swiss meringue buttercream and it can be a bit heavy but has a incredibly delicious consistency and taste.

•6 egg whites
•240 g granulated sugar
•270 g soft, diced butter
Salted caramel to your liking.

1. Pour egg whites and sugar in a clean and heat proof bowl. Put the bowl in a double boiler, the water should be simmering. Whisk the sugar end eggs constantly so they don't curdle until the sugar is melted. Rub some of the mixture between your fingers to see if it's done. 
2. Remove from heat, whip until white, fluffy and cool. This step can take up to 10 minutes.
3. Start adding the butter, very slowly. One dice at a time and wait with the next until the other one is fully incorporated. At some point it will look curdled, put just keep whipping - it will get smooth. If it is a bit runny, put it in the fridge for at little while and continue whipping.
4.  Add caramel to the buttercream and whip until smooth.

Salted karamel

I also found the recipe for salted caramel at call me cupcake, go there to find it. It is REALLY good, so I definitely recommend trying it out.  It taste just like Werthers if you know them.

Deep dark chocolate cookies

I've been looking for a cookie recipe that would be easy to make and didn't require a lot of ingredients. Then I found this recipe, and just the name alone got me hooked - deep dark chocolate cookies. They sound absolutely sinful and I just loove chocolate, so I had to try them. The fact that there's no butter or flour in them just added to their appeal. And let me tell you - they are absolutely delicious, like mouth orgasm delicious. I think this will be my go-to recipe for chocolate cookies. They have a crispy crust and a soft centre and the scent of chocolate when you bake them and when you open the cookie jar - mmm soo good.


I found the recipe over at Divine baking and she has a good picture step-by-step guide, so go over to her site and check the recipe out.
But do yourself a favor and try this recipe - I dare you to only eat one! I couldn't. I have a weak soul when it comes to chocolate.

Spelt bread rolls with sun-dried tomatoes

I love to bake and eksperiment with different kinds of flour and different things to put in the bread. Most of the time it's just a combination of the things in my cabinet.
These are spelt bread rolls with sun-dried tomatoes and here is the recipe:

Spelt bread rolls with sun-dried tomatoes
- 12 bread rolls

4 dl (1½ cup + 3 tbsp) water
25 g (0.88 oz) baker's yeast
125 g (1 cup) whole wheat flour
225g (1 3/4 cup) spelt whole wheat flour
225g (2 1/5 cup) spelt flour
50 g (1.7 oz)  sun-dried tomatoes
a pinch of salt

Note: It's really difficult to convert between grams and cups/oz, so if you don't have a scale that measures in grams, add the flour a little at a time and see if you need to add more or less flour than the recipe calls for. 

Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water. Add the flour, salt and sun-dried tomatoes and knead for about ten minutes until the dough is springy and smooth. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
Split the dough in 12 pices and shape them in to bread rolls and let them rise on a baking sheat for 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 250 ^oC (480 ^oF).
Moist the surface of the rolls with water and sprinkel with salt.
Put the bread rolls in the oven and turn it down to 210 ^oC (410 ^oF) and bake for 14-16 minutes.

While I bake bread, I spray them/it with water a few times within the first few minutes. It makes the bread rise better and the crust more crispy.