Christmas Cupcakes can also be made on other days than Christmas!
Ingredients: 250 grams butter, 250 grams sugar, 4 eggs, 250 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, baking powder, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, 50 grams plain chocolate,
Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Put in a muffin form the paper shapes (for these special days in green and red). Mix 250 grams butter with 250 grams sugar until creamy. Add gradually 4 eggs and mix until you have a pale batter. Add 250 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar and baking powder and mix it well. Fill the cupcakes with the 3/4 of the batter. Sprinkle over the cupcakes about 50 grams finely chopped plain chocolate. Add with the rest of the batter 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and mix it well. Shovel it in the chocolate cupcakes so the chocolate is well covered. Place the cupcakes for about 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Decorate the cupcakes possibly with red and green icing. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 375 grams butter, 2 sachets vanilla sugar, 250 grams sugar, 250 grams caster sugar, 12 eggs, 375 grams flour, 50 grams cocoa powder,
Preheat the grill for at 220 degrees. Mix 375 grams butter with 2 sachets vanilla sugar and 250 grams sugar into a shiny mass. Divide 12 eggs. Mix the egg yolks with 250 grams caster sugar to light white mass. Beat the egg whites stiff. Mix the butter with the egg yolks and egg whites. Add 375 grams flour. Mix lightly together. Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Add to 1 bowl 50 grams cocoa powder and mix until you get a uniform color batter. Grease a springform of 22 centimeters. Scoop a layer of the light coloured batter in the springform and turn on the springform in the oven. After about 5 minutes get the springform from the oven and put a layer of chocolate mixture on top. Put it back in the oven for 5 minutes. Keep up to until you’re out of batter. If the upper layer is ready is the chocolate ’spekkoek’ also ready. Enjoy!
Time for a cake to bake with cookie spices. It was a ‘Quatre Quarts Cake’, a cake consisting of 4 equal parts. See the ingredients for the exact amounts.
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 250 grams sugar, 250 grams butter, 250 grams flour, 1 pinch salt, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, 1 tablespoon cookie spices,
Preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Mix 4 eggs with 250 grams of sugar until you have a creamy mixture. This could take several minutes before you get this creamy mixture. Melt 250 grams butter. Add to the creamy egg mixture 250 grams flour, melted butter, a pinch of salt and 1 sachet vanilla sugar. Mix this with a whisk to a good batter. Pour half the batter in a greased and floured cake tin. Mix the remaining batter with 1 tablespoon cookie spices. Mix this well with the batter. Pour this batter also in the cake tin. Put it cake tin approximately 60 minutes in the preheated oven. Let the cake cool well before you get it from the cake tin. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 250 grams butter, 250 grams white caster sugar, 4 tablespoons coffee liqueur, 1 pinch of salt, 375 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar, 1 pinch of baking soda,
Mix 250 grams butter with 250 grams white caster sugar, 4 tablespoons coffee liqueur and a pinch of salt with a mixer. Add 375 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar and 1 pinch of baking soda and knead it thoroughly by the butter. Let the dough rest for at least an hour in the refrigerator. Preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Roll the dough into a flat lap and make cookies of a round shape. Place the cookies on a baking tray with baking paper held. Put the baking tray about 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Let the cookies cool on the baking tray. Enjoy!
I haven’t got a good translation for this ‘Spekkoek’, it is a sort of cake with all kind of spices. Originally from Indonesia.
Ingredients: 375 grams butter, 2 sachets vanilla sugar, 500 grams white caster sugar, 12 eggs, 375 grams flour, 1 pinch of salt, 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 5 teaspoons clove powder, 3 teaspoons nutmeg, 3 teaspoons cardamom,
Preheat the grill at 220 degrees. Mix 375 grams butter with 2 sachets vanilla sugar and 250 grams caster sugar to a shiny mass. Subdivide 12 eggs. Mix the egg yolks with 250 grams caster sugar to a creamy mass. Beat the egg whites stiff. Mix the butter with the egg yolks and egg whites. Add 375 grams flour and a pinch of salt. Mix this together. Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Add into 1 batter 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 5 teaspoons clove powder, 3 teaspoons nutmeg and 3 teaspoons cardamom and mix until you have a uniform color batter. Grease a spring form of 22 centimeters. scoop a layer of the light batter and turn on the spring form on the highest state of the grid in the oven. After about 5 minutes get the spring form from the oven and scoop a layer of the dark batter on top. Put this back in the oven for about 5 minutes. Do this until you haven’t any batter left. After 5 layers batterput the spring form at a lower grid in the oven. If the upper layer is ready the ’spekkoek’ also isready. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 250 grams butter, 4 eggs, 250 grams flour, 125 grams of sugar, 125 grams brown sugar, 8 grams vanilla sugar, 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda , 100 grams plain chocolate,
Preheat the oven at 160 degrees (fan). Make the cake for 2 types batter ready, the ordinary batter and the chocolate batter. The ordinary batter make you as follows. Mix 125 grams butter and 125 grams sugar to a smooth mass. Add 2 eggs, one at a time and mix until the batter is revealed. Then add 125 grams flour and 8 grams vanilla sugar and mix until you get an airy batter.
For the chocolate batter you follow these steps. Mix 125 grams butter 125 grams brown sugar to a smooth mass. Add 2 eggs, one at a time and mix until the batter is lighter. Then add 125 grams flour, 4 significant tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 100 grams chopped into small pieces of pure chocolate. Mix to a good batter.
Grease and dlour a cake tin. Scoop a first layer of the ordinary batter in the cake tin, then a layer of chocolate batter, another layer ordinary batter and finally the chocolate batter. Turn the cake tin about 80 minutes in the preheated oven. Check always with skewers if the cake is ready. When there is still batter on the skewer the cake needs a little longer in the oven. Allow the cake to cool in the cake tin and then let him go cool on a plate. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 2 apples, lemon juice, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, rasins, 1 tablespoon cookie spices, 250 grams sugar, 250 grams butter, 4 eggs, 250 grams flour, 1 sachet vanilla sugar,
Peel 2 apples, and cut it into small cubes. Pour a little lemon juice, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, a small handful of raisins and 1 tablespoon cookie spices. Mix 250 grams of sugar and 250 grams of butter until the butter has softened. Then add gradually 4 eggs while mixing. Add 250 grams of plain flour and 1 sachet vanilla sugar. Again mix well. Place the paper cupcakes in a muffintray. Pour a small amount of batter in each cupcake. Then add some of the apple mixture and then cover it with batter, so you no longer see the apple mixture. Place the muffintray in the preheated oven at 160 degrees (fan) for about 35 minutes. Let the apple pie cupcakes cool down before you attack! Enjoy!
