My Home Made Hummingbird Bakery Cupcakes
http://aceliverpoolescorts.co.uk/lfpce/r5xwedl.kw By danderma | January 24, 2010
Since the cupcake mania is not going anywhere soon and the cupcake business is booming, i was wondering how hard it can be to bake a good cupcake my self… i got my hands on the Hummingbird Bakery cook book… i decided to make my first cupcakes using their recipes… did you know the Hummingbird Bakery is actually owned by a Lebanese guy Tareq Malouf? I wish i could move to london and bake qers 3qaili and make a name out of it like he did but well… moving on…
I used the Vanilla Frosting (with drops of color) on top of my chocolate cupcakes and chocolate frosting on top of my vanilla cupcakes… see how pretty they look -in the book of course-
If you have some butter, milk, flour, vanilla, sugar, and one single egg… you can make a huge batch of mini and large cupcakes and decorate them… they won’t cost you more than 5 KD (and the ingredients can be reused) and they take 40 minutes to finish -including washing up time- and 20 minutes to decorate… yes only one hour!!! Plus you know how clean they are and how fresh your ingredients were!
In my case i used the Ma6a7en white flour, Lurpak butter, Mara3i Vital low fat milk, and Organic Eggs and they turned out amazing -taste wise- and halaga -decoration wise-… Insha2 allah next time i might use Yeo Valley milk and butter -british- with some french organic eggs and note the outcome and im planning to use a piping bag to decorate – i was too impatient to try them this time-
| Like what’s above? Join My Facebook Fans Page and Recieve the Latest Updates in One Swift Instant! |
|
I loved the Pix …
Thank you 😀
from where did u get this book….ana laman aroo7 london the first thing i do is to go to this bakery
You got the frosting down right! The cupcakes look amazing! Bil3afiaaa!!
I need to start baking again..so many recipes to try!
Allah ye3afeech cookie monster :*
Yalla what are you waiting for?!
danderma, ur one of the very few people whose recipes i read and actually go and try them myself and they turn out yummy
can we have the recipe for these cupcakes and thr frosting and how u made them step by step like u usually show us?
thanks
Eshma3na my recipes :p 3sa bs yebaythoon il wayh?
Insha2 allah i will post them very very soon 😀
mashalah mashalah
looks yammy waay mashalah 3aleech if u started your own bis ana awal wa7da ra7 ashtree mnich 
ambeeh kil refejate 3ndhom the same book
o mkhtbeen
Bs nagesne azeed 3la el cupcake businesses one moo :p b3dain my friends get the privilige of tasting them for free hon :* next time ill let you know if i make some and you can help out by taking half of them 😀
B3dain laish ma tekhtabain weyahom?!
Yummy!
Very 😀
looks yummy xx
Thanks 😀
yummy
They smell heavenly too 😀
Mmmmm they look so good ! Shawagtene I’m gona start using the cookbook ;P What baking cups did u use? paper wela silicone?
And they’re not halaga- they’re so homey and cute
Oh hon thank you :* they don’t look messed up?
I used paper cups inside a cupcake tin i have bought from Ikea, for both the small and large ones… the book was saying something about the difference between muffin cups o cupcake cups (i think muffin cups are bigger) but i used normal cupcake cups keifhom…
They look amazing and delicious ! 3alaich bel 3afyah..
Where did you get the things to decorate with ??
Thanx hon allah ye3afeech 😀
Hmmm some min dubai, some min il khafji (yes seriously), o some min UK but not a lot
Dean and Deluca offer some colored sugar sprinkles but thats about it
i am going to check Tavola in Shuwaikh as well to see if they stock anything
3ndena ga7a6 decoration bel q8 lel asaf
What an adorable cake! I’m so impressed.
Thank yoou *blushing*
WOW tislam eedich! I want 😀
Allah yesalmich 😀 Insha2 allah next time i make some i will let you know so you can try them 😀
I was so excited when I got this book and immediately started baking. So far nothing worked, I tried the cup cakes are too light you feel like you’re eating air. The quantities are inaccurate, the cooking times are completely random and the results are just not good. I consider myself quite a good baker and have never had so many problems before, even with the most complex recipes I followed them to the letter and still nothing works! Fabulous pictures but disappointing recipes.
No disrespect to Mr. Malouf, but I was left thinking yet again, about why he decided to publish a book about recipes from the bakery, if he was not going to be honest about measurements?
Hmmm you see i used actualy cupcake cases and they call for something with muffin cases… i had my over preheated at 170C and not one degree more, and used very little cupcake mix in each cup… they recipe said to bake them for 20-25 minutes but i noticed that the mini cupcakes were done in 10 minutes and the big ones were done in 15!
Plus im using a tiny organic egg? It is definitely smaller than the eggs used in UK or USA… but the cupcakes turned out fine… they very much resemble their signature cupcakes albiet i teeensy bit dry but i think that was because i over cooked them by mistake?
I have only tried the vanilla cupcake recipe though with the basic vanilla frosting… and i tweaked the chocolate ones in terms of adding a little bit more flour/cocoa than stated… i did not try any other recipes but i had my eyes on the raspberry brownie cheesecake? Have you tried that one?
They look really good! 3awaaaaaafiiii ;*
Thank you hon allah ye3afeech :*
mashalaaaah shakilha eshaweg !!
Thanx sweety 😀
my fav yummmy yummyyyyyyyyyyy
😀