A birthday girl placed an order herself asking for two dozens of red-velvet cupcakes to treat colleagues at work. I am free to decorate the cupcakes but have to keep in mind that her favourite colour is blue.
A random red velvet cupcake recipe with good reviews from the internet was used (there are sooo many to choose from). I have used recipes from the Hummingbird Bakery and Lola's cupcakes before and the cupcakes did not turn out well at all - they were either not very red velvet like (and tasted.....weird) or did not have the correct colour. The trick is to not trust recipe books from bakeries thoroughly as they do not want to share their trade secrets with everyone or else they will go out of business! Thank god for internet recipes :)
Making pipeable cream cheese frosting was the hardest thing of the project - the amount of icing sugar required was ridiculous and the kitchen was a mess afterwards. The final frosting never tasted alright - my journey searching for the perfect pipeable cream cheese frosting continues!
Back to making girly cake decorations!
As with all my cupcake making projects somehow I ran out of frostings to pipe in the end.....again! Luckily I was able to hide any signs of frosting shortage with sugar paste decorations. Making girly sugar paste decorations was really enjoyable. The birthday girl was quite pleased with the cupcakes = happy me.
Sparkling Lucille
