120 g unsalted butter
140 g castor sugar
4 eggs (Grade A or 5 pcs Grade B eggs)
180 g self-rising flour
½ tsp salt
¼ cup bandung drink (50g fresh milk + 1 tbsp Rose syrup) **keep 1 tsp for garnishing purpose
80 g gula melaka (chopped)
30 g water
60 g milk
accompaniments & garnish:
2 tsp cream cheese
½ tsp water
½ slice cheese
lion decoration (gula melaka cupcakes):
25 g white grated coconut
20 g gula melaka (chopped)
1 tbsp water
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp castor sugar
rabbit decoration (bandung cupcakes):
6 pcs marshmallows
1 tsp of bandung drink
sprinkles
Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius, top & bottom heat.
Beat butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy.
Add eggs and beat until well combined.
Divide the mixture into two equal portions
Melt gula melaka in a saucepan with water over low heat. Add in milk and mix well. Set aside to cool.
In a bowl, make your dry ingredients mix by sieving 90g self-rising flour with ¼ tsp salt
In the bowl of cupcake base mixture that you’ve divided earlier on, add some dry ingredients mix and some gula melaka mixture and mix till just well blended. Repeat this until you’ve used up all the dry ingredients and gula melaka mixture
Fill paper cups 2/3 full with batter.
Bake at 180 degree Celsius for 15-20min, or until a toothpick comes out clean
In a saucepan, combine gula melaka, water, salt and castor sugar and cook over medium heat until the gula melaka dissolves.
Strain the syrup to remove fibrous impurities in palm sugar and return it to the saucepan.
Add in white grated coconut and continue to cook by stirring to mix well.
Dish out into a bowl.
Cut an oval from cheese slice using small cap of container (approximately 2cm diameter). Place the oval cheese slice on the surface of a Gula Melaka cupcake as lion nose.
Mix 2 tsp cream cheese with ½ tsp water
Using bamboo stick or food-pick, draw the features on lion face with dark chocolate and cream cheese accordingly.
Surround the edge of cupcakes with sweetened grated coconut as lion mane.
Take one Gula Melaka cupcake, remove from paper cup. Cut a slice of cupcake from the bottom and cut out two semicircles as the lion’s ears by using cap of container.
Place the ears at both sides of lion head
Cut an oval from cheese slice. Place the oval cheese slice on the surface of a Bandung cupcake as rabbit nose.
Mix 2 tsp cream cheese with ½ tsp water
Using bamboo stick or food-pick, draw the features on rabbit face with dark chocolate and cream cheese accordingly.
Take ½ tsp cream cheese and colour it with Bandung drink. Use pink cream cheese as blushes for rabbit.
Cut marshmallows diagonally as rabbit ears. Tap Bandung drink on the centre surface of marshmallows.
Cupcakes can be served warm or room temperature.