Strawberry Cupcakes & Jolly Soda

I combined two recipes...

For the cupcake I used Betty Crocker recipe Strawberry and cream Cupcakes.

And for the frosting I used grouprecipe.com yogurt and whipped cream frosting.

For the batter, the recipe suggested us to use strawberry pop soda which I've never seen or recognized before. I went to Walmart and couldn't find it. Finally I found this kind of soda at Market Basket, it is a local product from our neighbour's state, Maine. I love the vintage design of the package.

This kind of soda reminds me of old style of beverage in my country, we call it "limun".

I used golden vanilla super moist cake mix, I love the taste of the batter but the result was not as I expected, may be next time I will stir some strawberry puree to give more strawberry taste. But so far the cupcake turned good, moist and not too sweet. I was worry because the added soda is sweet.

Cupcake Recipe :

1 box vanilla cake mix (follow the instruction from the box, use strawberry soda instead of water), I used 4 eggs instead of 3 eggs.

Frosting recipe :

Ingredients

1 container strawberry yogurt (32 oz)

1 package heavy whipping cream (32 oz)

1 tbsp sugar

1 envelope unflavored gelatine

Direction

Sprinkle gelatine into 4 tbsp cold water, let sit for few minutes then heat it until dissolve.

Whip the cream and yogurt until thickened but not stiff. Put the mixer on high slowly drizzle gelatine into the cream until well blended. Refrigerate to make it set.

Put into piping bag, and ready to use for frosting the cupcake.

I still have one bottle of soda left...I offered my husband "Jolly soda", just simply mix the condensed milk with cold soda and stir it.

Usually I make Jolly soda (soda gembira) using red Fanta or Coke or just plain carbonated water.

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About Concordance™

Homemade Hot Chocolate

Just want to try something new...

Usually I will be satisfy by having instant hot chocolate.

This afternoon I'm so eager to try this recipe.

The recipe is taken form ALLRECIPE, it has 4.5 stars review, over 2000 people has given their review.

I chose to use the stove instead of microwave.

3 cups milk ~ (jane: soy milk)

1/3 cup semisweeat chocolate grated (jane: semisweet choco chips mini morsel)

1 tablespoon white sugar

1/2 tea spoon ground cinammon

1 egg

Direction :

1. Put milk into a microwave-safe container and cook on High in microwave for 2 minutes (I used stove). Mix in chocolate, sugar, and cinnamon. In a small bowl, whisk an egg until smooth, then mix it into the chocolate mixture.
2. Return to the stove and cook on High for 3 to 4 minutes or until foamy (be careful not to let it boil.) Whisk until smooth and pour into 3 mugs. Garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon if desired.

my review : ...the result is too thick, and because of thinking there's an egg in hot chocolate makes my husband hesitated to taste it..he sad, "it's weird" ...*I should have not told him about the egg ;-) .I think I will skip the egg next time

Kopi Aroma Bandung

Though there are many kind of coffee are available here...

One of my way to heal my homesick is by having this coffee.

My friend brought it two months ago from Bandung, Indonesia.

My favorite is "mokka Arabika".....hmmm... the aroma is bringing me back to the store of this coffee. Small old building, friendly vendor...at Banceuy Street, near ABC Street and Pasar Baru.

It was so funny, the vendor prohibited me to buy 1 kilogram of coffee at a time...He said, " it's better for you to buy just a quarter of kilogram, after you finished that batch, come again...so you will always have the best taste of coffee". He will grind the coffee beans right away after we ordered.

I also love the packaging, they still preserve the old style and Dutch words on it.