Sugar and rain

My grandparents are in town. They're Bambaiyya, and so are tripping on the lovely baarish. We took them out for a post lunch dessert binge to Cafe Noir at UB city.

Ma had her standard order. A cappuccino and generous spoonfuls of our desserts. 

My nana and nani shared a chilled cookie frappe thingamajig whilst watching the rain. All very Bollywoodesque. 

Krish whallopped his strawberry tart. It had this lovely lemon tea base with frozen custard, and was nicely topped with candied strawberries. 

I had my all time favorite Triple Chocolate ganache. White, milk and dark chocolate. Absolute heaven. 

We then called for a Passion fruit Iced Tea. Chilled, minty and just the right amount of bitter. 

A perfect rainy day, if you'll ask me.

boozy cupcakes

For the Cupcakes

• 1/2 cup Guinness (the only stout beer we get here is haywards black...and no surprises madras dint even have that, so i just used the strongest beer i could get my hands on kingfisher black or something like that)
• 1/2 cup butter (melted)
• 1/4 cocoa powder
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1/4 sour cream

For the Ganache

• 3 1/2 oz bittersweet chocolate
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 teaspoon whiskey (I used a little more)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Frosting

• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar (powder very finely or just use store bought
• 
  icing sugar)
• 1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
• 2 tablespoons Baileys (i used brandy - do not ever do this)

The cake is marvelously moist, really its melt in your mouth amazing and it rose to form beautiful cupcakey peaks, I was quite thrilled by that. The ganache tastes wonderful, the whiskey works beautifully with chocolate, I should have let mine thicken up a bit more, but even runny its a lovely surprise in the centre of the cupcake.

the frosting however wasn't most awesome, mainly because I used brandy and then added vanilla essence in the hope it would save the flavour, it isn't horrendous, but it isn't that perfect finish to the cupcake that your hoping for. try it with baileys and icing sugar and it will yield a way better result.

Hello!

Dear lovelies,
We talk food endlessly, and eat endlessly. I'm hoping that this blog will allow us to put up pictures of the delicious things we eat, drink and cook. And links to the things we'd love to eat, drink and cook.

To the food that brings us together.

Love,
A.