New Make/Bake 37 - Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes, Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies and Black and White Brownies

A few weekends ago it was M's birthday. It's traditional that you bring cakes into the office for your birthday and apparently the supermarket cakes just wouldn't cut it. Initially he just requested cupcakes, then he decided cookies as well would be nice, and then finally a few brownies, just for good measure! This along with his request for a Victoria Sponge cake meant I would be spending a good few hours in the kitchen to fulfil this order!

After I'd finished the sponge cake I started with the cupcakes. I had Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes (from the amazing Hummingbird Bakery)  made these before so not a true new make bake but for the first time I piped the cream cheese frosting, rather just scooping it on top. They taste amazing, so simple and effective, I think this is why the request came in for a repeat make/bake!

The next recipe I attempted was from Nigella's "How to be a Domestic Goddess". As I had purchased quite a bit of cream cheese (it was on offer, it would be rude to say no) I thought I'd try her "Black and White" brownies. It's basically a normal brownie mix (melted chocolate and butter) with flour and sugar,but you dollop in bits of cream cheese, it must be the full fat version, with brownies there is no point holding back!

These were my favourite - I'm a sucker for brownies and these were divine. So tasty and cream and very indulgent. One to be saved for special occasions!

The last thing I made was the Cookies. The was a recipe from "Cox, Cookies & Cakes" by Eric Lanlard and Patrick Cox. It was a basic cookie dough mix with cocoa and dark chocolate chunks. It was supposed to include toffee, however I had some fudge pieces which needed using so I swapped those instead. I look making cookies as they are so flexible and you can mix and match different ingredients according to what you have in the cupboard.

These were quite tasty! The fudge did melt a bit so they were crunchy in places but the added texture was quite nice.


 Feedback was very positive, I'm glad the workers enjoyed them so it was a very successful, if not slightly exhausting, day spent baking!