My first pop up show: Basket Cookies, red velvet cupcakes, Brahma Karma and much more

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Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Malt Frosting | The Novice Housewife

Its been exactly a month since I last posted.

Between packing, traveling, helping my father-in-law fight elections, visiting parents, power cuts and then doing a pop up show in Goa amidst other stuff, I haven’t had much time to update this space.

I am still in Goa with my niece, brother and sister-in-law but hope to be slightly more regular with blogging than what I have been the past few days.

Basket weave sugar cookies | The Novice Housewife

The weekend that went by, my sister in law and I did a pop up show in Goa. A close friend of my sister-in-laws owns an online clothing store called Brahma Karma and with the help of my sister-in-law wanted to introduce the brand to the people of Goa.

Brahma Karma is the brain child of Swati Sharma, who designs and manufactures exclusive hand block printed clothes and lifestyle products. Her products ranging from comforters, baby blankets to clothing for men, women and children, all come in very unique fun prints. You have the telephone print pyjamas and kids shirts, fish kurtas, number shorts, lollipop print kurtis and many other unconventional designs. All of BrahmaKarma’s printing is done using discharge dyes that are completely azo free and can sustain maximum number of washes.

Brahma Karma Prints | The Novice Housewife

Brahma Karma Clothes | The Novice Housewife

Along with clothes, BrahmaKarma also sells handcrafted jewellery, comforters, baby blankets and upholstery material. Do check their Facebook page for more information on their designs and how to order them.

Brahma Karma Jewellery | The Novice Housewife

Brahma Karma Print | The Novice Housewife

Since I was in town visiting my brother and sister-in-law I thought it will be fun to sell some of my baked goodies along with the clothes. So there were brownies, red velvet cupcakes, eggless death by chocolate cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes with champagne frosting, and yellow cupcakes with chocolate malt frosting at the pop up show.

I also put some homemade decorated cookies on sale- chocolate heart shape cookies, brush embroidered chocolate and vanilla cookies, basket cookies and daisy cookies.

Leaving you with a few photographs of the stuff I put up and hopefully I will be back with a recipe post soon.

Decorated Sugar cookies | The Novice Housewife

Cupcakes | The Novice Housewife

The Best seller- Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese FrostingRed Velvet Cupcakes | The Novice Housewife

The decorated cookies all packed and ready to be taken.


Wrapped Sugar Cookies | The Novice Housewife 

Yellow cupcakes with chocolate malt frosting. 
Yellow cupcakes with chocolate malt frosting | The Novice Housewife

 Vanilla cupcakes with rose champagne frosting.

Vanilla cupcakes with rose champagne frosting | The Novice Housewife

 

Love and Hearts Chocolate Cake Roll

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Chocolate deco Roll with Chocolate Malt Frosting and Slivered Almonds | The Novice Housewife #valentinesday

I talked about sharing the recipe for the chocolate version of the patterned cake roll in my last post and so here I am keeping my promise. (I have a video tutorial in the last post on how to make these patterned cake rolls. Check it out here)

I love these patterned cakes and had so much fun making them. Except for the faux pas where I did not realize I should have taken a mirror image of the design, it was all fun. And if V’s colleagues are to be believed they loved gobbling it down as well.

This cake is the perfect cake for Valentine’s Day, or heck any other day when you want to do something special for that special someone in your life. Why wait for Valentine’s Day?

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Funfetti Cupcakes

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My friend’s daughter got very sick last week. She had to be admitted to the hospital and after four traumatizing days for my friend and her family she was finally released to come back home. She is still under observation but she is a trooper and fighting her way through her sickness with a smile.

Since the poor little girl went through so much, I decided to welcome her back home with cupcakes. I remember when I used to get sick as a child, I would crave for something sweet- anything to get rid of that bitter taste that medicines leave in your mouth.

I knew she loves funfetti, well which kid doesn’t? And, I had recently stumbled upon this recipe by Sally’s Baking Addiction. They seemed the perfect amount of fun to greet a child with.

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Sally uses a vanilla buttercream for the frosting and while I am sure that tasted absolute heaven, these days my latest frosting craze is the chocolate malt frosting (originally by Sweetapolita) I used for the five layer cake. And since I love the combination of vanilla with chocolate, you do get the best of both worlds, I paired these fun funfetti cupcakes with the chocolate malt frosting.

The cupcakes are great on their own, and fun to look at with colorful speckles all over the cupcake. So if you do not want the extra calories, skip the frosting and just make the cupcakes.

But, I’d rather you not.

Instead, I would suggest you have only one, or even half but make sure you have it with the frosting since it is so darn good. Since that’s how it is supposed to be. Because that’s what makes these divine. I can not say it enough, but treat yourself with this frosting now!

And, since these were being made for a kid in mind I made sure I topped each cupcake with a LOOOOT of frosting. <3

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