I almost died of shock when I realised that people actually still read my blog- since I haven’t blogged for about 7 weeks! I was on holidays but holidaying is quite tiring (or you could say, that I’m just lazy) and I could never quite find the time to crop all my (dodgy) photos, post them and write something about them. But since school has started again (*sigh*), I’m back to blogging. Because I spend more time ont he computer during the school term than in the holidays π
I am yet to find where all my photos which I took are but until then, I have plenty of things which I hadn’t found the time to blog about before. Up high on my ‘to blog’ list are these cupcakes I baked for Star Day at school. I hope that these yielded a large profit, because making them was not as cheap as I had thought it’d be. I’ve never realised how much money goes into baking until I made this relatively large batch of cupcakes (I usually make smaller quantities)
I’d actually never made proper cupcakes before- that is, the cupcakes with a buttercake base with cute fondant decorations or buttercream piped on top. I’d only ever made simple chocolate cupcakes with ganache since no one in our family particularly likes buttercakes or buttercream. I’d also never made buttercream before and was nervous about the piping. Although the youtube videos made it look simple, I was sure it was more difficult than it looked.


The buttercream however was a little more problematic. The recipe called for a large amount of icing sugar for the amount of butter used (9 cups!). I therefore ignored the recipe and just kept adding sugar until it looked like buttercream. By the time I added around half the required amount, it was already tasting too sweet so I stopped there. I think I also added too much milk as the consistency of the buttercream was softer than I had expected- it felt slightly like whipped cream?


Cupcake recipe
1/4 cups milk
10 Comments
These yellow cupcakes are lovely and beautiful ! Like them~
January 30, 2010 at 5:46 AMYay! These are so cute. Both buttercream and piping baffle me, but you got the roses to look very nice. Nice work π
January 30, 2010 at 9:07 PMHey Yvonne, it's Liz!
Found you from Steph's blog haha~
Your blog… it's so cool! OAO! Looks so professional!
I never knew you were such a good cook!
LOL, I really do learn something new every day. :]
January 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM9 cups of powdered sugar?!? gadzooks! i'm sure that made quite a bit of frosting, so you must've had oodles and oodles of cupcakes. i think the frosting looks just lovely and i'd call this a success, to be sure. π
January 31, 2010 at 1:19 PMwoahhh 9 cups of sugar?? sweeeet
February 1, 2010 at 12:18 AMThey're very cute! I think the Magnolia recipe calls for a lot of cups of sugar but I never use that much. I just can't do it hehe π
February 2, 2010 at 11:06 AMThey're so nice!!
February 3, 2010 at 11:13 AMI don't really like buttercreams too, but there are no doubts: buttercreams are the best to be piped!
Yeah, I have the same problem about money in bakery π Above all when I make birthday cakes for 20 people for my friends' birthdays!!
Sorry for my English, I know, so bad -.-''
The Martha Stewart recipes usually call for 8 cups of icing sugar… I say "WHAT THE?!" I usually just use 2 cups. π These look fantastic though! Love the rose frosting!
February 4, 2010 at 10:18 AMthey look awesome well done on the piping! (i've never piped cupcake icing before im too scared lol)
February 4, 2010 at 11:19 PMHi there,
These yellow cupcakes look so cute! I love the colour of the icing.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on my lamington cupcakes π
Rose
February 7, 2010 at 9:53 AM