It’s a girl! A friend of mine had a baby last week.

Unfortunately, she lives 2000 km apart in Spain, so I can’t visit her. Nevertheless, I could not help but bake something. These fondant flowers are sort of my version of these I found on pinterest.

For the dough, I whipped up a brownie recipe on the blog my baking addiction. My brother loves these.

And here it is, the brownie recipe, with European ingredients:

(makes about 12 cupcakes)

225 g (2 sticks) butter
300 g (1 1/3 cup) sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
85 g (3/4 cup) dark cocoa powder
120 g (1 cup) flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F). Melt the butter in a microwave. Combine with sugar. Add the eggs one at a time and stir in vanilla. Sift together all dry ingredients and stir them in. Line a muffin mold with cups and fill with dough up to 2/3. After 35 minutes you will have sweet, flat cupcakes, waiting for decoration.