Scented Love

Sunday, June 12, 2011

HA5: Coconut Carrot Cupcakes

Made some of these a few weeks ago for our neighbor's kid two years old birthday. It was a big hit!!! I think I have finally mastered a pipable creamcheese icing. It held its shape really well. I guess the key is COLD creamcheese and ROOM TEMP butter.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

HA4: Lemon Brown Sugar Cupcakes with Green Tea White Chocolate Buttercream

The crumb and texture of this cupcake is awesome!!! I have never baked cakes with coconut milk before, but the richness of the coconut milk definitely shows in the cupcakes. I love it. However, it is not lemony enough to my liking. I think I am going to try to brush them with lemon syrup next time. I got the recipe from Love and Olive Oil, and modified the recipe to my elevation (@6200) by reducing the leavening by 1/4 and baked at a higher temperature.

The buttercream is a white chocolate buttercream with Mocha powder (Green tea powder) added to achieve that green mossy color. Yeah I needed a green mossy color icing without using food coloring.

The two components are great on their own, but I am not sure if they work well together.....Need to think about this a little more :)

Btw, I love those little cake topper :). They are made out of modeling chocolate. I needed to figure out some type of cake topper. I didn't want to use fondant or gum paste cause they are not very tasty. I love it....they are so cute :)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

HA3: Caramelized Pineapple Vanilla Cupcakes with Pomegranate Buttercream

One of my favorite so far! I always love fruit cupcakes, not too sweet with a fruity tang. I had some pineapple and a big bottle of pomegranate juice in my fridge. I have been looking for a good vanilla based cupcake recipe for my HA project, and found this one from Love and Olive Oil. The tangyness from the pomegranate juice and the sweetness of the caramelized pineapples really go great with each other!!!

I just added 1/2 cup of caramelized pineapple (No sugar added or anything, just chop up the pineapple and caramelized it over the stove top).....And replaced the milk/cream in the icing with pomegranate juice.

Still need to practice my piping skill before July!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

A High Altitude Cupcake Experiment

I know I have neglected my blog for a long long while.....but life has been busy....and what else can i say :P..........

But now I have a new project....and I want to document it, so my blog comes in handy again :)

A High Altitude Cupcake Project..............My quest to find a good cupcake recipe fit for high altitude baking. Recently a permanent residence at 6250 feet........I am troubled with tasty cupcakes like the ones from sea-level.....plus I have another reason to do this, but I will tell you all later :)

More later.....right now, studying "Pie in the Sky: Successful baking at high altitudes" to get some ideas on what i am dealing with........

Wish me luck :)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A new whitewater kayaking woman

This is what I am into lately!!! I had the opportunity to take an all women whitewater kayaking class a few weeks ago, with my friend Wendy Lautner as the wonderful instructor.....and now I am in an article in Tahoe Weekly :). Well read along, Christina is me.......YUP!!! Peeling out :P

http://www.theweeklymagazineonline.com/fea/feat1.html

I completely 100% encourage women who are not afraid of water to go try it......It is really fun!!!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Memories of LPC

I have always told people that my last two years in high school is one of the best times of my life, and people usually look at me weird........

But recently, I just stumbled upon an old video that our high school teachers made for us, well it was made for I believe our second year's graduation....but our year was part of it too

LPC 2000 from SdGH on Vimeo.

This is why i love my school so much!!! All the amazing teachers we had. They are truly great educators. Education can change lives and they made me believe that!