cup cakes expert

[HIME]

this week i want to make some special dinner for my fried who come in to my house. unfortunately in shanghai not many ingredients that i usually use in my home town. so i thnk i want to make a cup cake but i don't know to make a special one that can wow my guest so can any one help me

thxs ^-^v

[Harpua]

Good luck! I've shopped for ingredients in Shanghai, and I couldn't even find baking powder or soda at Carrefour. There were many different flours, many of them for noodles or dumpling dough. It was hard to distinguish those over the others. Of course, I don't read Mandarin. That probably would have helped.

Oh man, good luck. I don't know what to tell you! If you can find sugar, baking powder/baking soda, cake or All Purpose flour, and REAL butter (not that crap they sell in Carrefour, but it would work), and powdered sugar, and an oven, you can make a cupcake, and you could make it interesting by adding different flavors. Perhaps something that you don't see in Shanghai very much, like a lime/coconut cupcake.

You could ask around in one of the Metro's bakeries and they could tell you probably; they must use some type of chemical leavening in their cakes.

What flavor do you want?

[HIME]

Originally Posted by Harpua

Good luck! I've shopped for ingredients in Shanghai, and I couldn't even find baking powder or soda at Carrefour. There were many different flours, many of them for noodles or dumpling dough. It was hard to distinguish those over the others. Of course, I don't read Mandarin. That probably would have helped.

Oh man, good luck. I don't know what to tell you! If you can find sugar, baking powder/baking soda, cake or All Purpose flour, and REAL butter (not that crap they sell in Carrefour, but it would work), and powdered sugar, and an oven, you can make a cupcake, and you could make it interesting by adding different flavors. Perhaps something that you don't see in Shanghai very much, like a lime/coconut cupcake.

You could ask around in one of the Metro's bakeries and they could tell you probably; they must use some type of chemical leavening in their cakes.

What flavor do you want?

even you know the chinese it doesn't help because the doesn't sell it even a cooking chocolate they doesn't sell it. but right know they sell whipped cream, french butter, cream chesee, sugar, egg, cake flour, yogurt, milk, brown sugar, honey, nuts(alot of nuts). in shanghai there's a lot of yogurt. can you think making a cup cake using the ingredients above.please help. by the way, thxs for your suggestion. i will ask them.