The Vanilla Series: 3 Vanilla Cupcake

Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit has always been one of my favourite sites to ogle at for its beautiful photographs of intricately-made cupcakes. Therefore, as a present for the GMG + significant others at tomorrow’s long-awaited reunion, I decided to make use of this recipe and the last pod to whip up something special. That said, the 3 Vanilla Cupcake (with Vanilla frosting) should definitely also be in the running for the ultimate vanilla recipe. It uses vanilla extract, vanilla seeds AND vanilla sugar (which fortunately I had on hand due to me saving the scraped-out pods in caster sugar).

For extremely clear instructions, you should click on the link to the site. I simply halved the recipe, cut down on the sugar content in the cupcake, and used light cream cheese for the frosting. Also, I didn’t sprinkle vanilla salt.

 

To add an individualised touch to the cupcake, I used my rainbow pearls (bought in Hong Kong way back in August last year at a supermarket in Tung Chung) to spell out the first letter of each of their names.

Glad to have met up, GMGs!

With this final post, I come to the end of The Vanilla Series, which I thoroughly enjoyed conceptualising (I like how this word makes it sound as though I did lots of planning and strategising). For future posts, I would definitely like to come up with more themes, perhaps lemon zest, or coconut, or purple food or whatever crazy ideas you guys would like me to try out. Just leave me a comment, and I’m game!

Also, this hurried chain of posting was not because I went mad. Rather, by tomorrow, I will be on my way to eating around Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka until the 3rd of July. I won’t be posting until then, I think.

So little money, so much food to try – Japan, here I come!