Cupcake with a Twix

Geez! It's been what, 10 days since my last post, my life had just turned topsy turvey for me since the girls arrived from the Philippines and started school thereafter. I had gone on leave to guide the girls in their adjustment period but it seems I am the one who's got a lot on my hands right now. I was able to make a lot of dishes for their lunch boxes and some backing too, but was not able to take a picture or even take down the ingredients' measurements. Gone were the days when I was able to take my time in order to take notes for the recipes of my dishes. Now it's just pure multi-tasking, cooking while cleaning up the toys or supervising the review of their homeworks, or making them take a nap while I do some baking. Seems the Expat side had gone to 10% and all of the 90% was taken over by the mommy-mode.

Last Friday, we managed to bake some cupcakes. Well, I have just taken the recipe from Carol Pastor's Chocolate Chip Cakes in her Cupcakes Recipe book which I bought from Logos Hope when the ship docked in Doha in February this year. But since we don't have some chocolate chips at the time, my eldest daughter suggested that we put her favorite chocolate bar instead which is Twix. Since the recipe just called for sprinkling the chocolate chips so I thought it wouldn't really do any harm if we replace them with crumbled Twix bar.


Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup caster sugar (icing sugar)
2 tbs soft dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
2 packets Twix Chocolate Bar, crumbled

Method:

Preheat oven to 190deg C, Arrange 10 paper cases in a muffin tin.
In a large bowl, beat the butter until light and pale. Add both sugars and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. 
Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition.
Sift the flour and baking powder together twice. Fold into the butter mixture, alternating with the milk.
Divide the mixture among the paper cases and sprinkle with the crumbled Twix bar.
Bake for about 25 minutes. Leave to stand for 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool.
Serve as an after school snack to your kids! Enjoy!