A new book, cupcakes and cup-a-cakes

A couple of days ago I found a giant package on the table in the kitchen. It was wrapped in bubble wrap, and looked pretty worse for wear. Intrigued, I looked closer. It was for me!

Luckily it survived the shipping, because the box was pretty dented. It's pretty cool: The Professional Pastry Chef by Bo Friberg. It's massively huge and heavy.

Coppe is such a good boyfriend.

Then today I found another package on the table in the kitchen. Yet again, for me! I opened it and found a set of cup-a-cakes! I couldn't help but giggle. They are so useless and yet so wonderful.

So obviously I had to use them, because they're so cute. I made a coffee spice cake from the book, the one cake recipe that happened to be vegan. I replaced most of the cup of oil with apple puree, and the raisins with chocolate chips. They're sort of healthy...


I think they turned out pretty well. Not sure I cooked them long enough... I was guessing because the recipe was for a full cake. But the one I tried tasted nice. I made a mocha ganache for the top - a bit too sweet for my liking, I added too much icing sugar. So I sprinkled some cinnamon over some, to offset the sweetness. It's only a little bit anyway, and the cakes themselves don't have much sugar.