Duo-Crusts Chocolate Tarts

Two different chocolate tarts with the same filling, different crusts. One is baked, one is non-baked. Both equally delicious and different textures, different tastes.

Ingredient:
Crust:
1/2 stick butter, soften
50g sugar
1 egg
150g cake flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
Milk (for adjustment)

No-bake crust:
Crushed graham crackers
Peanut butter

Filling:
200g melted chocolate
1 cup whipping cream
50g sugar
60g butter, melted

Steps:
For the baked crust: Cream all ingredients together till a dough formed. Put into lined paper cups and bake for 12-15 minutes at 350F. Cool on wire rack completely.
For the no-bake crust: Mix all ingredients together and put into prepared pan/cups.
Filling: Put all ingredients into a saucepan and heat on medium till all incorporated.

Assemble:
Scoop filling into cooled crusts. Cool in fridge before consume for better texture.

Happy baking =)

PB&B Cupcake (Peanut Butter & Banana Cupcake)

Again, one banana was sitting on the kitchen table. I guess it's just that no one in my house wants to eat the last banana, for some reasons. Haha. So, it always goes to my cake, because then people will actually eat it.
I call this cupcake PB&B, not PB&J which stands for Peanut Butter & Jelly.

PB&B Cupcake (Peanut Butter & Banana Cupcake)
Ingredients:
2 eggs
50g sugar
70g vegetable oil
120g mashed banana
120g cake flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp baking soda
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup milk

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
2. Beat eggs and sugar till mix well. Add in oil and mix.
3. Add in mashed banana and beat till combined.
4. Add in peanut butter, then milk, then flour mixture till all combined.
5. Scoop into cupcake pan till 2/3 full, and bake for 20-25 minutes or toothpick inserted comes out clean.
6. Cool completely on wire rack.

Very moist, and not-a-bad-combination at all! Happy baking =)

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cupcake w/ Chocolate & Peanut Butter Frosting

     What a normal, usual, boring day... It's very ineffective that I have nothing much to do, stuck in a place whereby I cannot go home nor can I do something else.. Sitting is my job now...@@... Okay.. I'll take it... Have to blog somehow.. Later have to bake something to make myself feel useful again...Too many ideas, yet I have no clues on which idea to choose.Sometimes too many choices aren't so good as well. I'm not a person who always have immediate decision, I need more time to think before I act, unless I have a certain adrenaline rush on that day, I guess... At the mean time, I think I will just post a baking project that I have done in the past to kill time...It has a very long name though, blame the words and the author >.<..

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cupcake w/ Chocolate & Peanut Butter Frosting
(Please mind the long name, LOL)
Ingredients:
3 eggs
100g sugar
100g vegetable oil
50g milk
80g peanut butter
130g all-purpose flour
20g cocoa powder
1 tbsp baking powder

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Frosting
1 cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tbsp milk

toasted peanuts, chopped
marshmallow, mini

Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line baking pan with cupcake liners.
2. Beat eggs, sugar and oil till mixed. Then, add milk into the batter.
3. Sift the flour mixture and mix into the batter.
4. Add the peanut butter.
5. Scoop batter into cupcake liners till 3/4 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes or toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely on wire rack.
6. At the mean time, beat butter, powdered sugar, peanut butter, cocoa powder, and milk till creamy and smooth. Add more milk if the frosting is too thick; add more powdered sugar if the frosting is too thin and runny.
7. Spread the frosting on top of the cooled cupcake, or you can pipe into piping bag of own choices.
8. Top with toasted peanuts and marshmallow.

The cupcakes are tasty, nothing can go wrong with the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. The toasted peanuts gave the cupcakes a crunch while biting into the soft cupcakes.I really love some crunch texture in my cupcakes/cakes/cookies/bars/breads. It's like I'm really biting into something. I'm a weirdo, I guess...>.<...

Enjoy! Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do... =)