As a family we tend to spend most of our time together around the kitchen. A part from using the kitchen table to have our meals, colouring books, playing games, we all love eating good food therefore my children love watching mummy preparing nice meals and baking scrumptions cakes (and watching daddy eating them) so I can easily say that the heart of our home is our Kitchen.
Last Sunday for Father’s day, we decided to prepare something all together. We opted for Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes covered with Nutella frosting! Bee was the first one to put her apron on and impatiently waited for mummy to give her tasks to do.
She’s usually in charge of breaking the eggs (somehow she loves it!LOL) and then adding the ingredients inside (quite a lot outside too) the mixer. She looks so concentrated when she bakes along with me, it’s actually quite funny to watch!
Making these Nutella cupcakes is dead easy. I used my usual Vanilla cupcake recipe and I added to tbsp of cocoa powder to that.
For the frosting I just went with what I thought would create a yummy frosting so I mixed together:
– 100gr of Nutella
– 100gr of sifted icing sugar
– 80 ml of heavy cream
and once I had a creamy smooth consistency, I put it in the fridge and left it for an hour or so before piping it on the cupcakes.
Tip: make a little hole and take some of the cake off from each cupcake so that you get more frosting in it!
“Hey daddy, do we look good in pink?”
This time Leonardo gave it a go too. He was mainly attracted to the noise that the mixer was making so he wanted to come closer and have a better look at what was going on.
Leonardo little chef
I had a fraction of a second where I thought nobody was looking so I quickly licked the mixture off my fingers but.. daddy caught me!
Daddy usually is in charge of entertaining the kids while mummy carefully puts the cupcakes in the oven.
A little fight broke over who was going to play with the cakepop mould…
Yummy chocolate cupcakes are rising well!
Bee is the happiest kid when she spends time helping to bake in the kitchen and if her adorable father is next to her, then there is nothing better!
“Mummy look, daddy is all mine!” I know, I know…
I truly enjoy baking and cooking, it totally relaxes me. But then it comes the time to tidy all up and I swear I cannot be bothered to rinse it all and clean well all the dishes before loading them into my dishwasher (like my mum thought me to do – sorry mum!). I found that by using Fairy Platinum, I really don’t need to do any particular pre-wash in the sink because my dishes still come out clean and shiny so why not use that time in a better way, ie frosting the cupcakes with a delicious Nutella topping ?
Perfect! A fresh strawberry on the top and voila’
We are all happy now, we prepared lovely cupcakes for daddy’s day and we just cannot wait to taste them ( in fact Bee is smiling in this picture but she was kind of getting a bit impatient as she had already been asking to eat a cupcake for 10 minutes!)
Leonardo is looking pretty eager to get his hands on that frosting too!
“Mummy, stop taking pictures, can I eat it now?!?”
Love and sweets, what else do you need in your family?!?
And this is how we spend amazing family time in our kitchen, laughing, playing and making the most out of every daily celebration!
I caught all three of you! Happy days!
*This post is an entry for the “My Kitchen Story” Linky Challenge, in collaboration with Fairy Platinum
