Def Jam Ripples

You will need: 

4 1/2 oz Plain flour

5oz Caster Sugar

1 1/2 tsp Baking powder

1 1/1 oz Butter

4 1/2 oz Whole milk

1 Egg

1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

A good quality pot of jam

For the Icing:

 1 Tablespoon of jam

4oz Butter

14oz Icing sugar

2 tsp Vanilla extract

2 Tablespoons of whole milk

few cheeky strawbs for decoration.

Preheat the oven to 170C, Now I used the Hummingbird Bakery recipe for these cupcakes which was a bit of a shocker for me as I am so used to starting with butter and sugar but hey if you can't beat them which I definitely can't, join em. So put the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and butter in an electric mixer and beat until it is all combined. You will then need to pour in half the milk and mix until it is one consistency. 

It is a right old palava this Hummingbird malarky cos they you'll need a separate bowl to whisk the vanilla, egg and remaining milk in. Once sufficiently mixed which will take a few seconds add to the mixer and beat until smooth. Now Bake for 20 mins yo. You know what even though I was two bowling it the electric mixer gave my arm a nice little break from its usual bake off work out, more time for throwing shapes whilst rapping to my bake off. 

When these cooled I kind of looked at them with what mart part-e would describe as a ''look of great distaste'', I thought '' I can't deliver these looking like that to a pregnant playa, they need the finer things in life through this 9 months'' so I scooped out a teaspoon full of sponge from each cake just like a dip in the middle and filled with jam before commencing on the icing.  Still on that lazy Hummingbird electric mix vibe I mixed together the butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk in one whack along with a a tablespoon of Jam and hey presto get yo ass a piping bag and nozzle and ice that up!

Totally optional but you can also add some strawberries to the top to make them look that bit more exquisite. Now had great reviews on these and I even decided to sample one as it was a special occasion celebrating the mini lush babe and I gotta say they were pretty divine, a mixture of Hummingbird x Full Time Playa is clearly the way forward. 

It would be super hard to choose my favourite Def Jam artist and whack a tune on here so instead I will post a classic that was released under Def Jam Records back in 1994. Just hit the east side of the Strawberry, on a mission tryna find Mr Warren G...

Vanilla Ice Slice

You will need: 

For the puff pastry:

8oz Plain Flour

1/2 tsp salt

7oz Butter

5 fl oz water

For the vanilla custard filling:

                                                              8oz custard powder

8oz sugar

32 fl oz milk

2 tsp vanilla  

For the Icing:

                                                                       5 tsp water

7oz icing sugar 

Dark chocolate melted or if you're a playa with no cash monies like me just use a bit of Nutella

Method:

Right Pastry is for playas and it is probably a lot easier to just buy some sheets of puff pastry however if you want to whip some up it isn't actually that hard, just longs out the baking session so depending on your full time hustling schedule you can bake or buy. If you are to make your own then you'll need a large bowl and begin with mixing the flour and salt together, rub in about half of the butter into breadcrumbs and then the remaining leaving lumps. You then bind the pastry together using the water and its quite easy to see when it has reached playa status, it may not even need all the water stated. 

Now you need to roll the pastry out on a (this is key) floured surface else you're gonna end up in stick to the side central. Once rolled out to around 2.5cm thick you then third the pastry and fold the bottom up to the middle and the top to the middle kind of like you're making a paper aeroplanes. Place the pastry to chill in the fridge for ten minutes. Now this gets a little monotonous but you need to roll it out and third the pastry again and then place it back to chill for another ten minutes, in total do this 3 times to achieve the perfect playa pastry.Slice into two piece and bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown and then leave to chill.  

Now for the custard filling place the custard powder and sugar into a saucepan and whisk well, add the milk and heat the mixture on a medium heat until it is stiff and hard to stir. Once you are happy with the consistency of the mixture add the vanilla in, to be honest I just free poured but thats cos I was rushing 

around tryna get the bake down before I started work.

Spoon the mixture onto one of the slices of cooled pastry and sandwich together with the other slice, now for the icing you'll need to sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add the water and dash of vanilla essence, then smooth this over the top and add the decorative melted dark chocolate or as mentioned if you're a wannabe baller like me just use Nutella, every playa should have this in the cupboard.

Leave to chill in the fridge and voilaa you got that ice ice baby down yo. Now of course you know what tune it is and check out them badboy hip hop hoe hairstyles at 22seconds into the video...DAYM GURL.

 

Grandmaster Flapjack

You will need:

6oz Butter

6oz Sugar

6oz Golden Syrup

A large bag of Porridge oats

Pinch of Cinnamon

Pinch of ground ginger 

 Optional:

3 mars bars (photo above) 

Simply melt the butter and sugar today stirring slowly, add in the golden syrup now I know I said 6oz but I usually add a bit more as I like it when the flapjacks are extra sticky. Once all mixed together add the porridge oats into the mixture and the pinches of Cinnamon and Ginger. Slowly pour the mixed ingrediants into a greaseproof paper lined baking tray. Now this is when you can add some playa steeze into the mix, I usually add chunks of mars bars or any other divine chocolate bar just to give them that extra touch.  Bake until golden brown with the oven at about 160C. Now you will need to let these little bakes cool down for a while before cutting into slices, chunks, squares whatever shapes you wanna throw! Get your bake on, no scratching, strictly mixing to this...

Mississippi Elliot Cupcakes

You will need:

6oz Butter

6oz Sugar

5oz Self raising flour

80g dark chocolate

1/2 Packet chocolate Oreos

3 eggs

For the topping:

150 ml Double cream

Fudge pieces

A bag of mini marshmallows

20g Dark chocolate

1/2 pack of Oreos

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180C. Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl, now make sure you use a large one as there are quite a lot of ingredients involved in this not so simple sponge. Crack the three eggs into the bowl, and beat the mixture until light and fluffy. Now Oreos seem to come into my baking a lot, its probably cos I live with Sam who is totally obsessed by them and fully takes advantage of Tesco's offer of 49p per pack...EVERY NIGHT! Anyway use half a pack of chocolate Oreos and crush them up, maybe imagine they're someone who's been hating on yo playa game and then trust me you really go in on the smashing flex, once smashed add to the mixture and stir well. Sift the flour in and fold the mixture carefully. You then need to melt the chocolate and add to the mixture before pouring into cupcake cases. 

Cook for 25 minutes and then remove the cakes from the tray and leave to cool ready for the ultimate Mississippi topping. 

Whip the double cream, now if you have read any previous posts you'll know my wrist has had some pretty big workouts of late but luckily I have got the electric one now and its strictly gym for arm action from here on. This wont take long and once whisked to a thick state you can add in the fudge pieces, marshmallows and some more crushed Oreos. Spread the cream over the cakes and drizzle melted dark chocolate over the top to achieve that biscuity chocolate dream cream icing. 

Again its hard to choose the ultimate Missy track but this one definitely reminds me of being a teenager with my Adidas track top on and thinking I could two step my way to hip-hop hoe status.