Apart from making a lot of consecutive little messes in my kitchen (that by the end had merged into one big one), it was fun to try something on a larger scale! And now I'll be ready for next time! A few photos of the finished products:
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Showing posts with label fondant. Show all posts
Saturday, June 12, 2010
An Order!
This week I put together a cupcake order for a friend throwing a bridal shower. It ended up being four dozen cupcakes--Devil's food and yellow cakes with buttercream or dark chocolate frosting. I was given the wedding invitation as inspiration--it was covered in blue flowers, so I tinted some fondant and tried to make some to match.
Apart from making a lot of consecutive little messes in my kitchen (that by the end had merged into one big one), it was fun to try something on a larger scale! And now I'll be ready for next time! A few photos of the finished products:
Apart from making a lot of consecutive little messes in my kitchen (that by the end had merged into one big one), it was fun to try something on a larger scale! And now I'll be ready for next time! A few photos of the finished products:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
LOST!
I realize that I have officially become the worst poster ever. I apologize for this, and fully intend to make up for it soon, assuming I survive the next 7 days. The spring semester has come to an end, and after a pretty tiring few weeks of finals, my classmates and I are now preparing for our first year comprehensive exams next week. Kind of a big deal. Fingers crossed...
I had been meaning to do another month's worth of posts when I uploaded my photos only to find that I had done very little baking that was post-worthy this month. I have, however, gotten pretty into cooking--expanding my repertoire to go beyond cake... Non-baking experiments might find their way to the internet soon, but for now, my latest project, inspired by LOST for the finale-viewing I attended on Sunday!
(Chocolate-espresso cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and black and white fondant "rocks"... Game on?)
I had been meaning to do another month's worth of posts when I uploaded my photos only to find that I had done very little baking that was post-worthy this month. I have, however, gotten pretty into cooking--expanding my repertoire to go beyond cake... Non-baking experiments might find their way to the internet soon, but for now, my latest project, inspired by LOST for the finale-viewing I attended on Sunday!
(Chocolate-espresso cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and black and white fondant "rocks"... Game on?)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Former Favorites: Vegetable Garden Cupcakes
Having had a few baking successes within the last several months, I decided to go ahead and document them here. (In other words, if I can't be in the kitchen tonight, I can at least take a little time off from homework to add a post or two... right?)
First up are the vegetable garden cupcakes. These were my project for my mom's birthday this summer, and I couldn't imagine a better way to make chocolate cake and chocolate frosting more "healthy". Inspiration goes back more than a decade to a vegetable garden cake that Martha Stewart featured on her show--as I recall, it was the cake that mom and I made for my 9th (or 10th?) birthday. The original recipe called for marzipan vegetables--our attempts with that failed, so we used frosting (meticulously piped by mom). For the cupcakes all these years later, I decided to play around with fondant. Decidedly fun!
First up are the vegetable garden cupcakes. These were my project for my mom's birthday this summer, and I couldn't imagine a better way to make chocolate cake and chocolate frosting more "healthy". Inspiration goes back more than a decade to a vegetable garden cake that Martha Stewart featured on her show--as I recall, it was the cake that mom and I made for my 9th (or 10th?) birthday. The original recipe called for marzipan vegetables--our attempts with that failed, so we used frosting (meticulously piped by mom). For the cupcakes all these years later, I decided to play around with fondant. Decidedly fun!
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