Canada Day turned out to be a beautiful day without any T-storms. Many of my friends contributed to the BBQ with salads, cheese platter, and some very impressively decorated cupcakes (very creative M&D), making the BBQ a success.
In keeping with the theme of Canada Day we played a Canadian Trivia game – the winner received a nice ceramic bottle of a local Canadian beer (Beau’s) and the loser was given ½ a six pack of cheap American beer. The rest of the night was spent chatting, sipping margaritas and indulging in copious amounts of food.
The vanilla cupcakes, made by my friend Michelle were topped with strawberries and cut to look like maple leafs (well done Damien). A great idea - the were just as delicious as they looked.
Vanilla Buttermilk Cupcakes
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt1 cup sugar
¼ cup butter, room temperature
1 large egg1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ tsp almond extract
1 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 350F. Place liners in a 12 cup muffin tin.
In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar together until it looks creamy. Beat in the egg and the vanilla and almond extracts until mixture is smooth.
Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir until almost combined. Add buttermilk and stir, again, until almost combined. Add the rest of the flour and stir until all ingredients are mixed in.
Divide batter evenly into muffin cups.
Bake for 18-20 minutes at 350F, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean.Let cupcakes cool for 10 minutes and then remove from the muffin pan.
Cool completely before frosting.
Makes 12 cupcakes
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup margarine of butter, softened
1.5 tsp vanilla1-2 tbsp milk
1. Mix powdered sugar and maragarine/butter in medium bowl. Stir in vanilla and milk.
2. Beat until smooth and spreadable.
Frosts one 13X9" cake, about 24 cupcakes, or one 8 or 9" two layer cake.
7 comments:
6 pack of cheap American beer - love it!
Cupcakes looks delicious. Had a cupcake today though...so back on cupcake hiatus.
What a yummy dessert - love the maple leaf!
I like the strawberry maple leaves:D
Mmm. Vanilla cupcakes are one of my favorites. What a perfect way to celebrate! Glad the weather cooperated.
The cuppycakes look delicious and I adore the artistic licence taken with shaping the strawberries ;)
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I keep trying to convince my American husband that Canadian beer rocks and American beer isn't worth opening. I'm sure I'll convert him :)
The strawberry maple leaf definitely caught my eye, next to the beautiful piping! I bet the buttermilk made these moist and tender.
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