It feels like Australia Day is never ending this year. Why?
Because the hot, sweltering barbecue-eating, beach-swimming, singlet-wearing weather I associate with it is just not seeming to end! I cannot get over how golden the sun is.
And how hot the temperatures are, by Odin, by Thor, by Jupiter, by every ancient god ever, DAMN… it is hot.
You know Australia’s whole ‘green and gold’ pride? Well it should be more gold than green because every plant I see right now is turning a rich yellow.
And is wilting, soft as gold.
Where is the grass?! Now you’re just some foliage that I used to know… (channeling my inner Gotye!)
I am sweating now, despite sitting in a fan, window open fully and my hair is a bit stuck to my face. Um.
Yuck.
So I cannot keep typing, for fear that if this heat does not melt me first, it will fry my computer quite happily 😛
Perhaps I should go take a dip in the pool now…
Sorry (not really!) for the short post! And a note – to all those who can now comment, YAY! And to all those who still can’t I have contacted again, but try doing it from a computer? Because tablets and phones are apparently a touch dodgy 😛
Time to go suck on ice cubes and put freezer packs on my face!
OH WAIT. STAHP! I didn’t even mention these gorgeous mini cupcakes, silly me! I guess thinking about ovens is making my brain softer than the heat already has 😛
Remember Biglolly? Well, the second packet of samples they sent me was of their Green & Gold Mini Jelly Beans pack! Sweet, delicious and memorable, I liked their flavour and chewiness so much! These were a solid 8/10 for me 🙂
– Yellow – A lemony flavoured treat with, a bit of an extra chew, where it got stuck to the bottom of your teeth haha
– Green – I couldn’t really pick it completely, it was either Green Apple or Pear (or a super weird lime :P) but was my favourite flavour, regardless of its ambiguity!
As a decoration on my golden cupcakes, they looked quite cute, but I bet you could easily put them in the batter (just an idea!) 😀
Enjoy (now I need some cold!) 😀
Green & Gold Mini Cupcakes (Mini Coconut Cupcakes)
Adapted from: Taste.com
Ingredients:
Coconut Cupcakes
- 100g butter, softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp coconut essence
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup self raising flour (SRF)
- 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
- 1/3 cup full cream milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips/jellybeans, roughly chopped (I ignored both)
Green Ganache
From: Cadbury Kitchen
- 250g white chocolate
- 125ml thickened cream
- Couple of drops green food colouring
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line 18 holes of a mini cupcake tin with mini cupcake liners (and grease one mini bar tin)
- Use an electric mixture to beat the butter, sugar and essence together till pale and creamy
- Add in the egg and then beat again till combined
- Sift in the flour and add in the coconut into the egg mixture. Stir till mixed through slightly.
- Add in the milk and mix through till a smooth batter forms
- Stir through any additional add-ins you desire such as the chocolate or the jellybeans
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown, with a skewer inserted coming out clean (14-15 minutes for a mini bar tin)
- Let sit in pan for 10 minutes before removing and letting cool to room temperature on a wire rack
- While Cooling: Heat cream and white chocolate together till melted and smooth. Add in the green food colouring till desired shade, let cool for 5-7 minutes and then dip the cooled cupcakes into it, swirling it so the ganache coats the top without spilling
- Decorate mini cupcakes as desired 🙂
Disclaimer: Go Bake Yourself received this mix of jellybeans as a promotional sample from BigLolly.com but all the opinions written here are my own.
– Choc Chip Uru
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How fun! I hope you had a great time celebrating Australia Day! My kids would especially love the colors!
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What a year we are all having! You are extra hot and we are extra cold. Our football team’s colors are green and cold, so this would make good treats when the season starts up again!
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I wonder if Australia is as hot as Panama. We live on the mountain, so it is much cooler than the lowlands. Love the dipped cupcakes….that color green and gold…beautiful.
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Oh my gosh CCU, what a fabulous idea for green icing. I want to do that for St. Patrick’s in March. Genius!
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What a lovely tribute to your country CCU, nice job. I love jelly beans, the green and gold are quite pretty together.
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Oh my!! I love the colors!!!
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OMG how cute are those cupcakes !! Happy Australia Day !
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Now these are perfect for celebrating! Please send me some of your heat.. and I will mail you some of our snow!! xx
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What fun!!! No I did not know about the Australian gold and green. thanks for introducing me to it in such a fun and memorable fashion! 🙂
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Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!!!
Love your green and gold cupcakes! You are good still baking so well during this crazily hot season 😀
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Come back to the USA, CCU, to New York State or any other state for that
matter. Lots of cold weather. Loving it here, at least more than hot weather.
Your mini cupcakes are gorgeous, especially like that you put coconut in the
batter.
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those cakes look so good, they don’t even need a topping…but i’m glad you adding one all the same. 🙂
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Love the new look! It’s pretty cold over here at the moment so I am jealous of your hot weather!
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Hope you are getting to cool off a bit.
Those treats are so much fun, can’t wait to show my boys and make it with em’.
Happy week my friend.
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cute cupcakes!
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Love those pretty cupcakes! Too bad we can’t trade some of our cold, cold weather for just a little of your hot!
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Hope it’s cooling down for you a bit!!!
These cupcakes look AMAZING!
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I don’t even remember what hot feels like! Enjoy your summer weather.
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Being stuck in an endless summer doesn’t sound so bad at all! Stay cool and sweet as ever, my friend!
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That icing is dreamy. It’s a lot hotter down there than up here I think.
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I could really use some of that warm Aussie weather to come our way. I am so tired of winter. These cupcakes are like a ray of sunshine on this cold winter morning. They look fantastic. 🙂
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Sweating sounds good right about now and so do these!
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Wow – what an amazing colour and love the green and gold jelly beans. I’m bookmarking this for Paddy’s Day! (Send some of that heat this direction – this part of the world could do with a bit of dry weather.)
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These cupcakes look so pretty Uru. I wish I could grab a few to distract me from the heat:-)
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I thought the cupcakes were cute, and then I saw they were COCONUT! YUMMMM! What a fab recipe. Can’t believe you turned on the oven in that heat, though! I can’t be bothered in the summers here 🙂 But I’m glad you did so I could see this recipe!
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Your cakes look marvelous!!! And I’ll trade you some of that heat for our freezing cold weather 🙂
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Fun recipe! I wish it was warm in San Francisco, I could definitely use some sun for my tan!
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Stay cool, my friend. That frosting absolutely rocks!
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Gorgeous green and gold cupcakes! Yes, I can’t seem to comment from my iPad 😦 I got on the computer just to leave you a comment 🙂
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I forgot to mention your site design–I love it! It’s so you.
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Uru, these look fantastic. I’m kind of jealous of the hot weather you’re having. You see, it’s damn cold over here. I think I’ll fly over and join you by the pool. Deal?
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Sweeeet Green.
Makes me WANT SUMMER!
Please bring me summer.
xxxxxx LOVE
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These look delicious! It’s freezing here – Crazy opposite worlds we live in.
And, by the way, I love your new site design! Very adorable photo too.
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Triple wow for these beauties,oozing with the shades of gold and green.
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I love the colorful frostings you’ve chose for these!! And I’m totally jealous of your warm weather.
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What sweet little cupcakes–and I mean in appearance as well as taste. I loved your “Gotye” reference. You’re so clever. I hope the heat breaks a bit and gives you a little rest. You’re amazing to be baking when it’s this hot! 🙂
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yum 🙂 Could sure use some of your warm weather here. Record cold temps where I’m writing from.
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Yum cupcakes! So jealous of the hot weather! 😀
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Yes. Is too damn hot 😦 Have decided to move to northern hemisphere every Dec-March and avoid this heat, humidity, flies etc. #IWish. Anyway, gorge post as always CCU. Very patriotic 🙂
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send us some of that hot weather, esp to East coast and Mid-West.
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I totally agree, the cup cakes are super cute and definitely worth turning on the oven in the horrible heat you are going through
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Oh how I wish it were hot enough here to want an ice cube on my face! Lucky you.
Those cup cakes look so refreshing with all that yellow and green. Yum!
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Love the colour of that crazy, wild green ganache! Did you use just melted white chocolate? I’m going to have to try this, Chippy. And coconut cupcakes are always welcome @ my house.
But, running the oven in that heat must be a punishment. Hope you have a li’l toaster oven. It’s a great sub. xo
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These little cakes are so cute! Also gotta love patriotic green and gold – and white chocolate ganache. The weather has been cool in Qld where I am this week.
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It is so hot nowadays and I’m off for a drive to somewhere where it’s close to 40C! Arrgh! I need some of these to sustain me I think!
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Oh my – hot, swelter, barbeque, swimming – you’re making me very jealous. Those are beautiful cakes & quite the colors. Nicely done.
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If only you could funnel some of that heat over here to Atlanta, Georgia! Its freezin here!
Cupcakes are welcome – no matter if its hot or cold – and these look refreshing in all their gold and green splendor 🙂
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gahhhhh do not brag about how hot it is!!! It’s so cooool up in the northern half of the world *brrrrrrr*
lol these cupcakes ARE super cute and look deeelish!
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Cute cupcakes! So appropriate for Australia Day. Sorry about the beastly heat — that’s something I don’t handle well. So it’s always air conditioning for us when it gets too hot. Hope the heat breaks soon.
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What delightful little buns!
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Let’s see, I’ll send some chill your way, you send some heat this way and we will gleefully share your tasty looking cupcakes together:) Thanks for sharing, Uru…
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Oooh love these beauties and would love to try making it with my kids!Happy Australia Day 🙂
PS-Love your new site!
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I love the patriotic gold and green decorations though baking when it’s that hot is going above and beyond the call of duty to celebrate. 🙂
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Gets pretty hot in Florida too, in summer. Hate to turn the oven on sometimes!
Very colorful cupcakes!
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From one sickly hot blogger to another… green white chocolate ganache, how nice Uru! I can’t bear to bake, unless I have no option. Enjoy the pool, it’s your best friend right now!
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Cute way to use your mini-beans! I hope you’ve escaped melting.
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They look so fun decorated with jelly beans!
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Such lovely cupcakes CCU. I think mother natures is is super angry with what we have all done with the world hence the reason we are all having such ridiculous weather.
Have a super weekend.
🙂 Mandy xo
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