Sunday, March 17, 2013

Over The Rainbow

Well Mannered Cupcakes Are About to Get Crazy

These cupcakes are some of my all time favorites to make.  Rainbow cupcakes are a great way to brighten any event or occasion.  I make mine by dividing the batter into six different bowls, and dyeing each bowl of batter a separate color. I then take a teaspoon from each color and drop it into my cupcake liner.  I proceed to drop teaspoons of each color on top of each other. Don't worry it won't run together and turn into a brown mess.


An Array of Colors


The Baked Cupcake

This is how the cupcakes look just out of the oven.  The wrapper I used made it difficult to see the colors, but that just makes it more of a surprise when you peel it off.


"Whoa Dude, The Colors!"

This is how the inside of the cupcake looks.  If this does not have your guests gasping in delight I don't know what will.


Ready For My Close Up

I iced these cupcakes with whipped cream icing.  I used a strawberry gelatin to help keep the whipped cream stabilized.  The gelatin gave the icing a nice little kick, and I decided to top the whole thing with some strawberry slices.


 The End Result










Saturday, March 16, 2013

"Splish, Splash"


The Squeaky Clean Dozen

  I loved making these cupcakes.  They are just so cute, that you can't help but have fun with them.  I made these for a birthday party, and they were a big hit.  The ducks are made from white chocolate, and I used duck shaped candy molds for them.   The cupcakes are vanilla, and turned out tasting kind of like an angel food cake.  The recipe came from this website: Night Baking: Vanilla Cupcakes.  I found the basic pond design from this website:Sweet Jems: Duck Cupcakes.  

                                                        Close up of a Chocolate Duck

Blue Eyed and Brown Eyed Ducks

When making these cupcakes there was a debate about which eye color suited ducks the best.  I voted the brown eyed ones were better, because they looked cuter.  I will leave it up to you to pick your favorite.

View from Above

The icing for these was a simple butter cream.  I used a blue gel icing right around the base of the duck to make it look more like water. 

Lone Duck

Packed...

And Ready to Go