Italian Cream Cupcakes!

I love baking, I take up any opportunity for me to bake, and try something new. So when my mother asked me to make her an Italian Cream Cake Cupcake yesterday I could hardly refuse. Sure she just wanted one cupcake, but some how I ended up with 48 cupcakes in my house. Whoops. 🙂 I guess the good thing is you can never have too many cupcakes!

Thankfully my sisters boyfriend is a teacher and can bring any leftover baked goods to the teachers lounge at school, all the middle aged ladies will just eat it up! (no pun intended) hee hee

So here we go, these little babies are the most moist, fluffy cupcakes you will ever taste!

Supplies:
1 stick butter
2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup olive oil
5 egg yolks
1 cup Buttermilk
2 cups flour sifted
1 tsp baking soda
5 egg whites
1/2 cup pecans chopped
1/2 cup coconut

This recipe is simple! For a step by step guide checkout…. Italian Cream Cupcakes!

Wanna see how they turned out? 🙂

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Ooo so yummy!

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Do you have a good recipe for Italian Cream Cake? 🙂

Triple Berry Galettes!

My Aunty shared these little babies with me one day.

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She said she was at Pete’s Coffee and Tea. (Ever had their raspberry mocha? Best drink ever!!) She ordered this for breakfast and it was delicious, then she told me about it! I was a little intrigued, but then, I saw it on the cover of some food magazine, and I was sold!! I tried my hand at making them last night, and they turned out be-yoo-tifully!
Plus, they’re actually rather healthy! Bonus! 🙂

Hands on time: 30 min
Baking time: 30 min
Total time: 1 hour

Here are your ingredients:
2 oz cream cheese
4 tbsp coconut oil
5 tbsp water
1 1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup blueberries
1/3 cup strawberries
1/3 cup blackberries
1 tsp cornstarch
1 apple cored and sliced

1 egg yolk
1 tbsp cream (or milk)

The process is simple, for step by step instructions check out… Healthy Berry Galettes!

This is my little galette fresh out of the oven! (They almost steamed up my camera lens!)

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Here is the apple version, not quite as juicy but still delicious!

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I had to stop after one.. But boy did I want to keep going… 🙂

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And going….. 😉

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Nutrition Information:
Servings – 4
Serving size – 1 whole galette
Calories: 353
Sugars: 5g
Protein: 6g
Fat: 17g