Cupcakes with Nutella / Cupcakes z Nutello

Did you miss me? I'm baking cookies and enjoying in my sparkly, freshly cleaned apartment. I love order and cleanliness! Today was suuuuuch a nice day. It reminded me of the beginning of spring. Neja please be patient, it will be here soon. When I went to the store to buy the ingredients for the cookies, I had the biggest smile on my face because of the sun. And then what happened? Horror, I'm kinda  ashamed to say. Smiling I walked, I imagined how birds fly around my head and then I almost fell! Yep! On the sidewalk...there it was, a wire circle on the pavement  and I got myself tangle in it! I barely managed not to fall on the asphalt! It happened so quick! But it lasted long enough to made me feel like shit. I was so embarrassed. And it happened to me next to  the most busy road. I hope that only few people saw me, on the other hand ... if I made them  laugh, then it's not that bad. This is worth something :). I don't know why this happens to me  all the time. Once I fell during running. It was in the spring or summer, I know that it was already dark. I was listening my ipod, jogging and all of a sudden I was on the floor! What the hell! Two women asked me if I was okay, I was so happy that it was dark outside, so they couldn't see my red face. I said, that 'I'm cool and started to run again. Nothing upsets me more than not reaching the goal that I had set. Then the next time I fell was in a parking lot next to a building where I live. I ran because I wanted to catch the bus. I fell pretty hard  and today I have a scar on my knee. So today I didn't fell because I caught myself, but I later hit the edge of  something at home and ... yep, I had a bloody knee. Everything is fine, let's go to today's recipe :). I always wanted to try a  cupcake, they look so stunning! They made me feel so full and even I could eat only one at a time. I was looking for the recipe for the glaze quite some time and only the third day I was able to do exactly as I imagine it. It's totally UNhealthy and if you will do it, do not apply so much as I did, because  I did that just because of  photos.

With love, Neja

Ingredients for muffins

• 220 g of flour
• 1 bag of baking powder
• 200 ml milk
• 80 g cocoa
• 100 g of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 90 g melted butter
• Nutella

The process

In a large bowl place the flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa and vanilla sugar. Stir. In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, milk and melted butter. Each one thoroughly, then pour the liquid mass to the first mass and mix well to remove lumps.

Take baking molds for muffins and add  in to 1/2 mass, then add a teaspoon of Nutella, which Iyou heated a little, so it is more liquid. Then add the reat od mass to cover Nutella.

Bake 15 minutes at 180 ° C.

Allow the muffins to cool, make frosting and decorate cupcakes with it.

Ingredients for buttercream icing

• 1/2 stick unsalted butter - room temperature
• 1/2 stick salted butter - room temperature
• 1/2 cup of margarine
• 1 tablespoon Clear Vanilla extract
• 1 pound of powdered sugar 
• 2-3 tablespoons very cold milk
• Coloring for food (I used  raspberry)

The process

Cream the butter and margarine in the bowl of an electric or stand mixer. Add the clear vanilla extract and combine well. Begin adding in the sugar and mixing thoroughly after each addition, add coloring for food. After all of the sugar has been added and mixed thoroughly, begin adding the very cold milk... one tablespoon at a time, combining very well after each addition (mixer on medium-high to high speed) until you reach the desired consistency.

Ku-ku, ste me kaj pogrešali? Ravno pečem piškote in uživam v sveže pospravljenem stanovanju. Obožujem red in čistočo! Danes je bil takooo zelo, zelo lep dan. Malo me je spominjal na začetek pomladi. Še malo potrpi Neja, saj bo kmalu tu. Ko sem šla v trgovino po sestavine za piškote, sem imela zaradi sončnega vremena  največji nasmeh na obrazu. In kaj se je potem zgodilo? Groza, kar sram me je povedati. Nasmejano sem hodila, domišljala sem si kako ptički letajo okoli moje glave in potem sem se lovila po pločniku in skoraj padla! Jep! Na pločniku je ležal žičnat krog in jaz sem se zapletla vanj! Komaj mi je uspelo, da se res nisem raztreščila po asfaltu! Vsega skupaj je bilo seveda konec v parih sekundah, dovolj, da bi se najraje ugreznila v zemljo. In to se mi je zgodilo ravno ob najbolj prometni cesti. Upam, da me je videlo čim manj ljudi, po drugi strani pa...če sem jih nasmejala, je tudi to nekaj vredno :). Ne vem zakaj se mi to stalno dogaja. Enkrat sem se podričala po vseh štirih sredi teka. Bilo je enkrat spomladi ali poleti, vem da je bilo že temno. Poslušala sem ipod, tekla in kar naenkrat sem bila na tleh! Nič mi ni bilo jasno! Dve ženski sta me vprašali, če sem v redu, še dobro, da je bilo temno, da se ni videlo mojega rdečega obraza. Odvrnila sem, da sem kul in odlaufala naprej. Nič me ne razjezi bolj kot nedoseganje cilja, ki sem si ga zastavila. Potem naslednjič sem odletela na parkirišču pri bloku. Tekla sem, ker sem lovila trolo. Padla seveda in še danes imam brazgotino na kolenu. Danes torej nisem padla, ker sem se ujela, sem se pa kasneje doma udarila v rob in...jep, imela sem krvavo koleno. Vse je v redu, raje pojdimo k današnjemu receptu :). Vedno gledam te cupcakes, tako omamno izgledajo! Super nasitne so in celo jaz sem lahko pojedla le eno naenkrat. Kar nekaj časa sem iskala recept za glazuro in šele tretji dan mi je uspelo narediti točno tako, kot sem si jo zamislila. Je totalno NEzdrava in če jo boste delali, je ne nanesite tako veliko, kot sem jo jaz, ker to sem naredila samo zaradi fotografij.

Z ljubeznijo, Neja

Sestavine za mufine

• 220 g moke  
• 1 vrečka  pecilnega praška 
• 200 ml mleka
• 80 g kakava
• 100 g sladkorja 
• 2 jajci
• 2 žlički vanilijevega sladkorja 
• 90 g stopljenega masla
• Nutella

Postopek

V večjo skledo damo moko, sladkor, pecilni prašek, kakav in vanilijev sladkor. Premešamo. V posebni skledi zmešamo jajca, mleko in stopljeno maslo. Vsako posebej premešamo, nato tekočo maso zlijemo k prvi masi in dobro premešamo, da odpravimo grudice.

V pekač za mafine zložimo modelčke in v njih do 1/2 nadevamo maso, nato dodamo čajno žličko nutelle, ki jo prej malo segrejemo, da je bolj tekoča. Nato nadevamo maso tako, da napolnimo modelček do 4/5.

Pečemo 15 minut pri 180 °C.

Počakamo, da se muffini ohladijo, naredimo glazuro in z njo okrasimo cupcakes.

Sestavine za glazuro

• 57g nesoljenega masla - sobna temperatura
• 57g soljenega masla - sobna temperatura
• 108g  margarine
• 1 žlica vanilijevega ekstrakta 
• 450g sladkorja v prahu
• 2-3 žlici zelo mrzlega mleka
• Barvilo za hrano (jaz sem uporabilo malino)

Postopek

V mikserju zmešajte maslo in margarino. Dodajte ekstrakt vanilije. Dodajte sladkor v prahu in temeljito zmešajte, dodajte barvilo. Ko je vse temeljito zmešano dodajte žlico mleka, nato spet sladkor in spet žlico mleka. Masa ne sme biti preveč mokra zato bodite res previdni z mlekom.

Original recipe for muffins
Original recipe for buttercream icing