Lately, I've been really into cake baking and decorating. I'm still far from creating anything particularly stunning, but I continue to hope that one day I will wake up and realize that I am an accomplished pastry chef and cake decorator. I'll be sure to let you know when that day comes. In the meantime, I've been making a few earnest attempts.
Don gave me a fantastic and adorable book about cupcake decorating that I highly recommend. The designs range from quite easy to super difficult, and I've managed to find a few I can pull off:
http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Cupcake-Irresistibly-Playful-Creations/dp/0618829253
My first foray into the cupcake-decorating world began a few weeks ago, while I was still up at school. Don and I were attending a Mozart-themed party (cue the "music dork" comments), and so we wanted to make something festive to bring along. Here was the result. Please excuse both my tired appearance and my low skill level:
(Thanks to S. Goldfeather for the photo.)
The most exciting part was probably dying the icing. We used white icing only, but it is amazing the results that you can get from only four tubes of food coloring. The noteheads are junior mints. If you can't tell, the two little guys in the bottom of Don's pan are Mozart and Salieri. You can tell by their very distinctive hair styles.
My second attempt was more successful. More on that soon.
3 comments:
You look creepy.
I am terribly aware of that fact.
I would like to bake cupcakes with you and then photograph them and then have a picnic with them, sometime very soon. thanks.
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