Cupcakes for my granny

Green Tea with Red Bean
Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter

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As i don't know want to bring for my granny, so i decided to bake some cupcakes for her and my relatives. Thinking that my granny will not like too "modern" flavour, so I baked two flavours - Green tea with red bean (especially for my granny) and Chocolate chip with Peanut butter.

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I used basic Vanilla Butter cupcake recipe, just added some green tea powder and redbean as filling. The taste was not bad, except that it does not have green tea flavour nor the green colour. The texture was dense, i think this could be due to over mixing of the batter. I used the Chocolate cupcake recipe, but altered some of the ingredients. As i do not have buttermilk, so i substitute this with yoghurt (as i search on the web that this is ok to do so). And instead of melting the chocolate as what the recipe descibe, i just fold in the chocolate chips. Outcome: weird tasting cupcakes. It was slightly sour because of the yoghurt. What could have went wrong, perhaps was because i did not melt the chocolate (which could have covered the taste of the yoghurt). But when i ate it on day 2 - the sour taste subsided as compared to fresh from oven. Overall, the cupcakes were too dense.

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