Desert

Vanilla and chocolate cupcake

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Ingredients

For The Cupcakes

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or other high quality cocoa or dark cocoa
  • 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp. almond extract
  • 1 cup boiling water

For Vanilla Buttercream

  • 1 cup salted butter room temperature
  • 8 cups powdered sugar a 32oz bag
  • ⅛ tsp. salt
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp. almond extract
  • 7 Tbsp. whole milk

For Chocolate Buttercream

  • 8 oz package cream cheese room temp
  • ½ cup salted butter room temp
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder such as Hershey or Hershey Dark
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • ¼ – ½ tsp. almond extract

Instructions

To Bake The Cupcakes

  • Put oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • Add eggs, milk, oil, vanilla and almond extract. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
  • With the mixer on low, stir in boiling water (the batter will be very thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
  • Bake about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes.

To Make The Frosting

  • Put all the frosting ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on low until combined, scraping sides and bottom as needed until the frosting comes together.
  • Turn the mixer to high and beat for 3 minutes. Scrape the sides and beat an additional 2 minutes on high.
  • Frost the cupcakes with a Wilton 1M tip for a swirl pattern or frost as desired.

Credit: Mirlandra’s Kitchen

Picture: Lorraine Dzikiti

Desert, Recipes

Best ever BANANA MUFFINS

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2cups flour, 1and half cups sugar, 1tsp vanilla essence, half tsp salt, 1quarter tsp baking soda, 1and a half cups mashed bananas, 3eggs, 120g butter. 10ml baking powder, 1Tsp poppy seeds. 


METHOD 
1.Cream sugar and butter till light and fluffy, 
2.mash bananas, add vanilla essence to the bananas, break in the eggs one at a time, mix well, 
3.add banana mix to the butter and mix well, sift the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda onto the bananas and mix. 
*Poppy seeds are optional so if you don’t like them you can live them out. 
* Spoon into a greased muffin tin and bake in a preheated oven at 180d for 30mins.

Credit: Sara Ndiweni 

Recipes

HOME MADE MINI PIES MAKE A PUFF PASTRY

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Pastry making can be very boring, maybe its better to buy ready made, i prefer making my own though:
*250g plain flour
*250g unsalted butter
*5ml salt
*3/4cup icy water 


METHOD
1.Sift flour and salt into a bowl, with a round bladed knife, cut up large chunks of butter into the flour, use your hand to bring the flour to a ball adding drops of ice cold water until u have a neat dough, do not over work the dough, chill in the fridge for 20 mins, take out onto a lightly floured board and shape dough into a rectangle, roll it out until 3 times its size, make 3 divisions on the rolled out dough, bring upper third to centre and the lower part over the 2 parts. 
* place in a cling wrap and chill for 20mins or until ready for use.
*roll pastry out and cut into circles of desired size, place your meat in the pastry and fold into shapes you desire, moisten the edges so that the pastry can stick together firmly.
*brush with beaten egg, place on a greased oven proof dish and bake at 180d c for 30 mins or until pies look golden.


PIE FILLING: I USED MUTTON AND CARROT.
*cut up meat neatly into about 1cm cubes, fry onion add meat and cook high heat for 10mins, add carrots cut up abt same size with the meat and cook on low heat until soft, abt 45mins.
N.B the meat should be vry cool when folded into the pastry to avoid melting the pastry.

Credit: Sara Ndiweni

Recipes

FISH CAKES

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*800g fish,

4medium potatoes,

onion,

2eggs,

handful of jungle oats,

chicken spice,

potato spice,

fish spice,

500ml fresh milk, 


* boil potatoes and keep aside, wash and boil fish in the milk, 
* grate onion, mash your fish with a wooden spoon and remove bones if it has any, peel boiled potato and grate it onto the fish, mix in the oats, eggs, and spices and mix well. 
make the cakes to desired size and fry in hot shallow oil. 
*i _served mine with fresh fried chips and colslow salad.

Credit: Sara Ndiweni

Desert, Recipes

Banana muffins by Ravisha Chinnappa

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Ingredients 
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 medium ripe bananas
1 large egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:
1. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients. In another bowl, mash the bananas. Add egg, oil and vanilla; mix well. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. 
2.Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups half full.
Bake at 375° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 1 dozen medium sized muffins of 6 large muffins.

Source: RAVISHA CHINNAPPA

Food

Creamy samp

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Soak samp over night. 
Wash and boil your samp over low heat till it’s cooked and soft. Add chopped red &green peppers,onion and carrot,butter and Cremora.

Sticky chicken:
Sprinkle your chicken with aromat.
Add 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and melt it in your pan. Then add your chicken,put in a half cup of Coca-Cola Coke and close the pan. Cook over low heat till the coke dries up and chicken becomes sticky.

Credit: Shibe Raisibe Monyamane

Desert

Three ingredients biscuits.

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500g wooden spoon margarine
1 cup icing sugar( can make 2 cups if want them too sweet)
6 cups flour

Method
1. Mix/Beat your margarine with icing sugar together with an electrical mixer till creamy. 
2. Add your flour and mix to form a soft dough. 
3. Roll medium balls and press down with a 500ml buddy bottle(cold drink)
4. Bake at a preheated oven 180 C
Put aside to cool completely 
Melt your brown baking chocolate in a microwave then sprinkle on your cooled cookies.
Enjoy.

Credit: Shibe Raisibe Monyamane

Chicken, Recipes

Fried chicken.

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Preheat your oil in a pan.
Boil your chicken pieces(10 pieces)with salt for 5min.Put them in a plate to cool off.
In separate bowls
First bowl beat 1 egg with 2 teaspoons of milk.
Second bowl mix 2 spoons of flour and spices of your choice(I used barbecue spice,chicken spice and brown onion seasoning)
Deep your pieces in egg mixture and coat with your flour mixture then deep-fry your meat till golden brown.
Enjoy.

Credit: Shibe Raisibe Monyamane