Adventures in Baking

Chocolate muffins were made this weekend with 
the help of Black Magic Cake and a DIY Tulip Cup tutorial...

WHAT WAS NEEDED

MUFFIN INGREDIENTS
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup strong black coffee, cooled
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup fresh blackberries 

3/4 cup of confectioners sugar to decorate

(This made about 24 regular sized muffin cups)

FOR TULIP CUPS 
Parchment Paper and Scissors

THE HOW-TO PART

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  Line trays by cutting parchment paper into squares 2 – 3 inches wide.
One at a time press the squares into the cups in trays. Smooth your fingers into
the corners. Make sure not to force the parchment too far so it doesn't tear.
Don't worry if it doesn't fit perfectly flat, the muffin batter will help with that.

3.  Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, 
and salt in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer.

4.  Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, oil and vanilla.  
Beat at a medium speed for about three minutes. Batter will be thin.

5.  Fold blackberries carefully into batter.

6.  Fill tulip liners 2/3 full with batter and 

bake muffins for approximately 25-30 minutes

or until they pass the toothpick test.

7.  Once done, remove trays from oven and 

dust muffins with confectioners' sugar and serve!

♥ They were pretty yummy mis amores ♥

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What kind of bird are you?

This weeks fixation courtesy of Wes Anderson and his most recent film Moonrise Kingdom.  Co-written with Roman Coppola and described as the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness as various authorities try to hunt them down while a violent storm is brewing off-shore and a peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.  Scary to imagine in almost any other movie premise but here.  Have I mentioned that my boyfriend Bill is in it?



PS. Thank you to my friend Scott for making me some gif magic!
Hope you're having a great weekend... ♥

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From A Mess To The Masses

A little bit obsessed with this new documentary by directors Antoine Wagner and Francisco Soriano.  The film centers around the two years of tour that followed the release of Phoenix's 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. If you live in France or Germany you might have seen it on television already (so lucky) since I think it aired there a few months back?  But everywhere else it's still yet to be released.  Below is a clip from the film posted on Nowness.  So good and so short, and Thomas Mars and his small chin look adorable in it... shallow but true.

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