Buttercream Icing

To make cupcakes more beautiful and tastier, I recently tried to do buttercream, and it was a success!

Here is the recipe. It's very easy to do.

Ingredients (for about 20 cupcakes):

- 8 tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat milk, at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted
- few drops of food coloring (optional)

In a large mixing bowl beat the butter, milk, vanilla extract, and half the confectioner's sugar until smooth (with electric hand mixer). Gradually add the remainder of the confectionner's sugar and beat again until smooth and creamy.

If you want to color your buttercream, start with one drop of coloring and beat. Then add drop by drop until you get the color you want.

Keep in an airtight container at room temperature (you can keep it up to 3 days). When you want to use it, always beat it a little bit before using. If you feel it's too liquid, put it a little bit in the fridge (not too long, otherwise it gets hard).

My first try with buttercream

My crepes recipe!

This is the first recipe I learned to do on my own, when I guess I was something like 5 years old, well at such a young age that I don't remember when I started to bake crepes. So here it is, with step by step pictures.

Ingredients (for approximately 5/6 crepes)


- 1 egg
- 3 spoons of sugar
- 6 spoons of flour
- vanilla sugar (one little bag or 2 tea spoons)
- 1 tea spoon of rhum
- 25 g of butter
- milk

1. Mix the egg, the sugar and the vanilla sugar

2. Add the flour and mix well, until smooth

3. Add the butter, melted, and mix well

4. Add the milk and the rhum. Pour enough milk so that the dough becomes liquid, but not too much. 

5. Preheat a pan (put first a drop of oil on it, if it may stick) and pour one ladleful of dough on the pan so that it spread all around. Let cook until you can turn it on the other side, and then let that second side cook until gold. Then do the same with the rest of the dough.

For those sweet crepes I suggest you to put on it : sugar, cinnamon, nutella, marmelade, nutella+bananas+whipped cream, chestnuts cream...

Bon appétit !!