Today, I decorated the cutest cupcakes in the world. Bought the book, "Hello, Cupcake" and it has the best ideas ever. Now I desperately need the companion book, "What's New, Cupcake"!!! Check out the adorable Snow Family and trees.....
Aren't they just precious??? I love that she uses every day candies and such to decorate her creations. Starburst, however are NOT as easy as she makes it out to roll out, but once I got the hang of nuking them for 5 seconds to soften 'em up a bit, it wasn't so bad. I will say that in the future, I will be buying appropriate decorating tips and bags, because the zippie bags she suggests just didn't work out the way I expected them to. It's difficult to cut the accurate shaped tips to create the leaves. I will NOT do that again.
But I do like her recipe for making a firmer cake that doesn't fall apart, I LOVE it! She adds 1 cup of buttermilk in place of whatever amount of water the box calls for. Then you use the required amount of oil, and use 4 eggs. The cake has a much firmer, yet still light texture that was a breeze to decorate. Which would have been marvelous to have when I made Stephanie's baby shower cake, and I had to glue it together with icing all over to make it the correct shape. It all worked out in the end, the finished cake was beautiful and she loved it, but I had to keep shoving the cake into the freezer to get it to firm up a bit before trying again!
Exhibit A: Messy cake
Messy exhibit will NEVER happen again, now!! I can't wait to try new ideas with cakes and cupcakes!
the cake was good
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