Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting | Recipe

Today I baked carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and they were so delicious that I had to share the recipe with you guys on my blog. In actual fact, the cupcakes are 100% vegan because we ran out of eggs and so I used mashed banana as a substitute (I literally googled egg substitute and mashed banana came up....it's an oddly brilliant idea) but the cream cheese frosting is definitely not vegan. 

I found the recipe on a baking blog which I will link below and I'll include the changes I made down there also. I will admit, my cupcakes don't look half as good as the pictures I was going off, especially the cream cheese frosting which was a bit of a flop but hey, I tried! 

CUPCAKE RECIPE HERE

Changes made:

- Rather than using two eggs, I mashed up one large banana and used this instead.
- I added 3/4 cup of sultanas

Tip: The cupcakes are a lot nicer when left in the fridge for a few hours

Let me know if you end up baking this recipe and any suggestions on what to bake next! :) 

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Super Easy Vegan Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

A few weeks back my Mum, Dad and I went out for breakfast where Mum ordered the most delicious looking cinnamon roll. It was a Sunday and I didn't have much to do so I decided to kill time by trying to bake cinnamon rolls, however as I was searching for recipes, they all said it would take hours to make and looked rather fiddly and complicated.

This was until I found a recipe that claimed to teach me how to bake cinnamon rolls the EASY way, using LITTLE ingredients, all while being VEGAN. Couldn't get any better, right? Right! 

Now although you really can't bake cinnamon rolls from scratch without it taking a little while, this recipe was a lot shorter than all of the other ones I found. For example, you don't need to scald the milk because if you're using dairy free milk (such as almond milk), the proteins won't kill the yeast and hence it becomes a vegan recipe. 

I'd highly recommend you try this recipe if you're into that sort of thing, it's a definite winner. It didn't take long for my family to scoff them all up and praised me until the cows came home. Thankyou minilmist baker! 

Note: The changes I made to this recipe were as simple as adding crushed walnuts and sultanas to the dough before rolling it up and cutting. I also didn't get around to the glaze because we didn't have any icing sugar in the house but this step is totally optional. 

RECIPE HERE

What's your favourite thing to bake? 

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Chewy & Delicious Anzac Biscuit Recipe

Lest We Forget 

"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, 

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, 

We shall remember them"

Today is ANZAC day in Australia and so I decided to bake some Anzac biscuits; biscuits that have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. 

These biscuits use very basic ingredients and are super simple to make. Even the most amateur of cooks could create these...not to mention they're delicious! 

I've provided step by step instructions below but please note that I had to take all the photographs myself whist baking the biscuits and so there were a few steps I couldn't capture on my camera...apologies!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of rolled oats 
• 1 cup of sifted, plain flower
• 2/3 cup of desiccated coconut 
• 2/3 cup of brown sugar 
• 125g of butter 
• 2 tablespoons of golden syrup 
• 2 tablespoons of cold water 
• 1/2 a teaspoon of baking powder/bi-carb soda 

Step 1:

• Set the oven to 160 degrees/140 degrees fan forced.
• Line a large oven tray or a few small oven trays with baking paper. 
• Mix the oats, flour, coconut and brown sugar together in a mixing bowl.

Step 2:

• Place the butter, golden syrup and water in a small saucepan over medium heat and stir until butter is melted.

Step 3:

• Stir in baking powder/bi-carb soda and keep stirring for another minute or so until the mixture rises a few centimetres and becomes bubbly.

Step 4:

• Pour the butter mixture over the dry mixture and stir until combined. Now is where you can get a little messy by kneading the mixture with your fingers. Make sure to wash your hands beforehand! 

Step 5:

• Roll the mixture into teaspoon sized balls and place them on a lined baking tray. Don't worry too much about how far apart they are from each other on the tray as these biscuits don't tend to spread as they're baking.
• Press each biscuit down slightly with a fork (I did this as they were in the oven but I'd recommend you do this beforehand). 

Step 6:

• Place the biscuits in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until very slightly golden brown.
• NOTE: If you want them to be chewy then you must NOT let them bake over this stage! 

Step 7:

• Once you've taken your Anzac biscuits out of the oven, leave them to cool for 5 minutes before transferring them onto a cooling rack and then serving.

Step 8:

• ENJOY! 

Have you tried baking these before? If you try this recipe, I'd love to know how they went so please do leave a comment below. Much love. 

xx

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