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Ginger crunch creams and velveteen cupcakes

Apr 02, 2009 11:45

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photogirl April 2 2009, 21:12:17 UTC

Ohhhh!
Please stop posting pictures of delicious things!

I have some ginger nuts and possibly the ingredients to make buttercream but I can never get the consistency right. Do you have a recipe/ratio of ingredients that you would recommend?

x

rice_dream_girl April 3 2009, 07:18:39 UTC

Honestly, I just chucked it all together :) The buttercream shown is far too thin for the gingernuts, really, but throwing them in the fridge for a while made a lot of difference. I think I used a very rough ratio of 1/3 cup margarine (I used Vitalite, but this tends to be a bit too soft) to 1 cup icing sugar, with 1 tbsp custard powder and some vanilla thrown in for good measure, but it all varies a lot according to which margarine you use. If I make them again I'd use the tiniest amount of margarine to start off with, so that once it was all mixed in it made a kind of fudge-like consistency ( ... )

pataka April 5 2009, 17:57:09 UTC

There is a vegetable shortening called Pura that's available over here. Confusingly, it doesn't say "shortening" on it but that's how it was described on a soapmaking site I found... x

rice_dream_girl April 5 2009, 18:03:28 UTC

Oh wow, I had no idea!! Have you ever tried it?

pataka April 5 2009, 18:30:56 UTC

Alas no, I drool over recipes far more than I actually get round to making them, hehe ;)

rice_dream_girl April 5 2009, 18:38:27 UTC

Haha! Ok, I'm now on a mission to find some, thanks for the tip! :D

rice_dream_girl April 6 2009, 11:59:38 UTC

I just realised; didn't you say you're in Leeds? I visit my boyfriend there every other weekend, so if you do happen to find some there, please please let me know where :D x

pataka April 6 2009, 18:48:19 UTC

You know what? I actually have some in the fridge that I didn't end up using for soapmaking, want it?! I think I got it from Sainsbury's (or Tesco?), for future ref.

We could, like, meet or something :D P'raps after dissertation hell is over... (my college mucked up the deadline date, long story...)

xx

rice_dream_girl April 6 2009, 22:44:13 UTC

That'd be awesome! And yeah, once the dissertation is out of the way... D-day for me is 15th May, argh! How about you? x

pataka April 7 2009, 18:47:52 UTC

Mine's 27th April, shoulda been even earlier but the college cocked up the deadline date, although they're not actually assessing it 'til the beginning of June.. I need it out the way though, I've got a final collection to design yet! nfortunately, planning is not my strong point, I'm more of a last minute kinda person, so I'm only just getting into writing it now, argh! (trying to string all my notes together) Ah well, it'll all be over soon :D

rice_dream_girl April 9 2009, 10:35:52 UTC

Oooh that's scary! Best of luck for getting it all done, though. I got my exam timetable today and everything's a LOT sooner than I thought, but looking on the bright side at least I'll be exam-free nice and early! I'm SO not ready for the real world haha :S x

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