5: Gingerbread & lingonberries
I love lingonberries, or cowberries as they’re also known. For some reason I think of them as a very Swedish/Scandinavian flavour, but they also grow in other parts of Europe, in Asia as well as in...
View Article6: Toasted hazelnut latte
Oh wow, today´s flavour turned out even better than I hoped. I will definitely be making these again. The topping is regular (dairy free) whipped cream with lightly toasted hazelnut, and the cupcake...
View Article7: Maple & figs
Maple cupcakes (made with this recipe only without the apple chunks and about 1/4 cup of the sugar substituted for maple sirup), my go to-frosting, fresh figs and maple sugar sprinkles. With the meat...
View Article8: Chocolate, coconut & coffee
We’ve finally had our first snow of the season here in Malmö, and with it came an awful winter storm that lasted for days. I much prefer the still, thick and cozy kind of snow, but there you go. At...
View Article9: Sea buckthorn & Vanilla
I made today’s cupcake in honour if the recent snow. Where I live it’s still white and fluffy, but unfortunately it’s too warm to last. Also there are other threats than the temperature: I went out...
View Article10: Candied almonds
Fairs and markets smell lovely this time of year from candied and roasted almonds. I associate the smell with two things: New York City and Christmas. Unsure how the ones sold at the Christmas fairs...
View Article11: Chocolate & salted caramel (& popcorn)
Salted caramel, mmm. Chocolate and salted caramel, mmm. Popcorn and salted caramel, mmm. Chocolate, salted caramel AND popcorn, mmmmm. :) The cupcake and frosting are both basic; chocolate (no...
View Article12: Gingerbread & chocolate
Did I mention I loove gingerbread? I love the fragrant spice mix and gladly put it into anything, including obviously, cupcakes. The Classic is of course the gingerbread cookie, which we eat a lot of...
View Article13: Saffron & lingonberries
Saffron is a classic Christmas flavour here, as in many other countries I’m sure. I actually don’t like saffron all that much and normally only eat it in Lucia buns (here is a great vegan recipe for...
View Article14: Chocolate, blueberry & liquorice
Today’s cupcake is chocolate with a sprinkling of raw liquorice powder (instead of the cranberries in the the recipe) topped blueberry frosting. As I was making frosting for only this one cupcake I...
View Article15: Banoffee
Today’s cupcake has a not very Christmassy flavour at all, but was none the less lurvely – possibly the tastiest in the calendar so far (mind you I haven’t actually eaten ALL of them myself. Some have...
View Article16: Candy cane latte
I adore candy cane. I associate the flavour and colours very much with Christmas, but this year I haven’t been able to find any vegan candy canes sadly. When I had a look on the internet for how...
View Article17: Apple & maple
I do love the taste of maple syrup, so here it returns, but this time paired with apple (added to the batter in chunks) rather than fresh figs. Other than that the set up and recipes are the same....
View Article18: Cloudberries & lingonberries (& candy apple)
Today´s bauble inspired cupcake is lingonberry and cloudberry flavoured, and topped with whipped cream and a candy apple. I put lingonberries in a vanilla batter and later filled the baked cupcake...
View Article19: Glögg & stars
Today’s cupcake is a version of the Advent cupcake with glögg – sweet mulled wine – and with added peacans. It’s topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with edible glitter (hardly visible on the...
View Article20: Lemon & poppy seeds
Both bottom and frosting of today’s cupcake have been flavoured with lemon and poppy seeds (although you can hardly tell with the frosting). Lemon is such a lovely flavour to work with as it makes the...
View Article21: Speculoos / cookie butter
I read somewhere someone naming cookie butter the new Nutella. So of course I had to give it a go. All I can say is Nutella Who? What? Cookie butter is SO lush! Don’t try it. You may not be able to...
View Article22: Ginger & walnut
I’m not sure I have used fresh ginger in baking before (if I have, I have temporarily forgotten). I’ve used other forms, but fresh gives so much more flavour and taste. You have to like ginger of...
View Article23: Chocolate & cherry
Merry Little Christmas Eve! Where I’m from today, the day before the big day, is the little day; lilljulafton, or little Christmas Eve. Just one more day now, and it’s obvious to anyone here in my...
View Article24: Coconut & Happy Xmas!
Happy Christmas everyone! Thanks to all who have been following the Cupcake calendar, 2013 edition. I wish you all a lovely holiday! Coconut cupcake (vanilla with coconut essence and coconut flakes...
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