Last Sunday, I had a good friend come by to hang out, bake and frost cupcakes! Apart from the sugar hangover I had on Monday, I had a blast.
We made lime frosting, or should say we added lime juice to the buttercream and then added more powdered sugar to get the consistency back, hey it worked! Also we pumped simple syrup with lime juice into the cupcakes for an extra burst of yummy “limeyness”, you can see it through the liner, the light green area near the bottom. A few had a ganache filling instead, but it kept getting all over the place, so we gave that up.
I tried Wilton’s cupcake recipe since my last batch was a little soft and didn’t really hold it’s shape. The resulting cupcakes while shaped perfectly seemed to be somewhat dry side and a little crumbly. Oh well, I’ll just keep on looking for the perfect cupcake recipe, feel free to give me suggestions! Also, “classic” frosting is too sweet for me, I’d like to try cream cheese frosting soon. Often, I catch myself wondering if chocolate mousse is stable enough, you guys will probably see the results of that experiment, when it happens.
My previously posted second cupcake looked like an anemone, the one above looks sea creature-ish as well, do you think maybe I unconsciously want an aquarium, or better yet want to finish my macquarium project.
I added a chocolate dipped strawberry to this pretty yellow one my friend frosted, only to learn that strawberries leak! But isn’t it a lovely shade of yellow?
OK now for bullets part (otherwise known as “what I learned:”)
- Strawberries leak!
- Wilton recipe is a little dry.
- Sugar gives you hangovers.
- I should finish my macquarium, really I should.