Veggies for Dessert Series: Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes

Another great recipe that can be used as dessert as well as a helping of vegetables. These cupcakes taste nice and chocolatey but contain zucchini. The zucchini make the cupcakes really nice and moist plus add an extra dose of vitamin for your daily intake. This is a great way to get kids that don't like zucchini to eat their share of zuchini without them even knowing it!




Ingredients
1 1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup yogurt
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup grated carrots
chocolate frosting

Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.

In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar until light. Then add the eggs one at a time and mixing well in between. Mix in the vanilla. In a seperate bowl combine the flour, salt, cocoa and baking powder. Add the grated vegetables and mix them in well to coat them in the flour mixture. Then add it one cup at a time to the butter-egg mixture. Then add the yogurt and combine it well.
Line a muffin tin with cupcake paper cups and fill them with the mixture. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick put in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool then frost and enjoy :)

The Smartie Project: Lusaka International Community School

  

We just had a sale at  Lusaka International Community School (LICS). They had set up a little entrepreneur day, which was fantastic. We arrived at the school and prepared to set up, before we had all our containers open little people had crowded around the table insisting on buying what they could grab. They especially loved the small cupcake decor we made of the LICS logo.

We had a wonderful selection of cupcakes for this sale. We decided to add strawberry flavoured cupcakes to the collection. These young babies were loved by the kiddies. Even more so with the strawberry decor placed on top.

Another big hit were our cake pops. Who doesn't love cake on a stick?! :)

We owes huge thank you to the LICS community. Not just the faculty for allowing us to sell during their entrepreneur day, but also the student body for buying our goodies and helping us raise the money we need to help Kyle. So, thank you!

The Smartie Project: International School of Lusaka

Our bake sale was a huge success! We sold almost everything we had. We were left with 4 mini cupcakes out of 100s of baked goods. To this we owe a huge thank you to the International School of Lusaka for letting us set up a table and sell our cakes. We owe an even bigger thank you to the students and parents that came to buy our cakes. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we enjoyed making them. This is definitely a good start for our fundraising project. We hope to get a little further with it. So thank you to everyone that came to buy cakes and thank you to those that assisted in the making of the cakes.

We managed to take some pictures of the preparations of the cakes so you can get a good look at what was on offer during the bake sale.

Preparing MiniCupcakes

Green & Yellow MiniCupcakes

Making the cupcakes colourful was our way of making them more appealing to the children. We also added sugar decor such as, footballs, crowns, Bloo (from Fosters Home of Imaginary Friends) and Lady Bugs. They loved them all.

Chocolate Cupcakes

We also appealed to the chocolate lovers by adding chocolate cupcakes.

Selling Cakes

The children loved our cake sale and we got very busy. It was a great sale and all the children were fantastic. Thanks for the help!

Cake Sale

Thanks so much for all the help we got during this bake sale! We hope to see you all again soon!

The Smartie Project: Baobab Fun Fayre

Our first sale went fairly well. We managed to sell a few baked goods and come out with a small profit. Although only small, every bit counts. I'd like to say thanks to those that came to our stall to buy our goodies. Our mini cupcakes were a raging success! I'd also like to say thanks to those that helped with the baking and preparations, it was much needed! Take a look at some of the pictures we took!

Peanut Butter Ganache Sandwich Cookie Pack

Mini Cupcakes

Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mini Cupcakes

Polka Dot Cake

Set Up of Our Stall

For our Polka Dot Cake, we actually had polk dots within the cake, we didn't manage to get a picture of how they looked because one very lovely and lucky customer bought the WHOLE cake from us :)
Watch this space to see how the next sale goes! We're so excited and can't wait to see how it goes. Wish us luck and send us some new ideas or suggestions for our cake sales :)

Veggies For Dessert Series: Carrot Cake

If you have a tot that doesn't really like to eat veggies, I've come up with the veggies for dessert series. I'm going to find recipes for cakes and puddings that include veggies so you can get your tot to eat those veggies.
For the first post of the series I've chosen to make a simple, yet popular veggie cake; carrot cake! My little one usually hate carrots and I've struggled to get her to just eat one slice of carrot, until now that is. She loved her dessert and got her helping of carrots. It's a great way to get her to eat carrots.

Ingredients
200g carrots, peeled and grated
170g brown sugar
200g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs
150ml sunflower oil
50g soft butter
75g icing sugar
200g cream cheese

Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and prepare your baking tins.

Separate the eggs and whisk together the egg white and sugar until light and fluffy. In a desperate bowl mix together  the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda mix well then add the grated carrots and coat them in the mixture.

Then combine the flour-carrot mixture with the egg whites and mix well. Add the egg yolk and sun flower oil. Combine everything well to create a batter. Then divide the batter between the prepared baking tins. Bake for 20-25 min or until a toothpick stuck in the centre comes out clean. When the cake is ready allow to cool before frosting.

In the meantime you can prepare the frosting by mixing the butter and icing sugar until light and creamy. Then mix in the cream cheese until smooth. Spread the frosting over the cake, serve and end enjoy.