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Fondant  

Posted by: anna* in , ,

I´m all worried about the earthquake in Japan... So I decided to post here to get my mind off things.


I´ve always wanted to try messing with fondant. My lovely sister gave me Fondant for Christmas and so...
Maaaan, it´s kinda... exhausting. I think it´s better if you know what you´re doing, have a plan or a theme and just do what you wanted. But. I didn´t have a plan, I didn´t have a theme and so both my attempts at trying to make cupcakes pretty ended with only a few cupcakes.

Here are some pictures:



This first batch I made all by myself.
I also got a leave-mold. Nice.











My first try at making a rose. Kinda big...












Mini Cupcake turned upside down then covered. Not looking too good. But I like the idea.













All (four) of them. It took me about 1 1/2 hours to make those. I need more practise.









The second batch I made with my friend Conny. I figured it`d be more fun doing it together. And it was. But still we didn´t manage to make lots. Yes, we did spend probably too much time chatting like old women but still...






Fondant flowers. Cut out with Japanese cutters.










A ribbon. It looks so easy. I can tell you, it´s not.











White on white. Very elegant if you ask me.








Another rose. Smaller this time and with a leaf.











Conny`s beautiful daughter Supercute-Sophia being proud of her cupcake. She loved the Leaf-mold.












That is all we made. Two big ones, two little ones each.










Next time we´ll make more. We´ll make a plan beforehand and don´t try to think of cute things while we´re at it. We absolutely won´t forget the stars! We will use unpowdered gloves for kneading and modelling the fondant. We will have more little cookie cutters. We will make better cupcakes (the little ones were terribly dry). We... Well, we´ll just make it better. Right? Right!

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Halloween Cupcakes  

Posted by: anna* in , , ,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Everyone!!!
Long time no see! Sorry about that, but University & work keep me pretty busy. I´m cooking and all but lack the time to post. I promise this`ll get better.
Today I am going to have a little halloween fun with some friends and this is what I´ll bring:

It´s Martha Steward`s White Sheet Cake made into bright orange minicupcakes.
Ingrediences:
Cupcakes:
1 1/2 Cups Butter (roomtemperature)
3 Cups Flour
2 ts Baking Powder
1 ts Salt
2 1/4 Cups Sugar
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1 Cup Milk
8 Eggwhites

Frosting:
80g Creamcheese
60g Butter
2 Cups confectioners sugar

Since it´s Martha Steward`s go here for instructions. It´s real easy, though. The frosting recipe I found at all-about-cupcakes.com, really easy as well.
I used Wilson`s frosting colors and liked them. The orange works great in the cupcakes. I tried to make black cupcakes before this but they ended up looking grey and dead and not in a good way. I also bought the little sugar bats and pumpkins, before anyone asks me whether I made those myself.
Apart from coloring Martha´s recipe and misusing it for minicupcakes instead of making "a festive flag cake" I also added lemon flavor for a little twist (which would have been better with black cupcakes, though...). Not real lemons, just flavor since I´m allergic. And this time I only used half the recipe because I don´t need a gazillion minicupcakes. Works great. And they´re so tiny and cute. Just one bite. I love minicupcakes.





The dough in my bowl.












Before baking.


















A pile of minicupcakes.






What did everyone else make for Halloween? I´d love to see...
No german this time. I think I´ll let that be completely. Anyone against that? Opinions welcome!

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