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Cupcakes Before Christmas

Dec 23, 2007 16:47

I got an early Christmas present. A piping bag. So, I just had to give it a go. It's my first time using a real piping bag. Before I would use a ziploc bag and just cut a corner. I'm a slow learner so its not the best. But I'm still very impressed. I made two batches of cupcakes. One mint chocolate cupcake, and the other a cookies and cream cupcake ( Read more... )

cookies 'n cream, mint

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no_more_makeup December 24 2007, 00:57:30 UTC

i made chocolate cupcakes with mint icing today too! :]
i put an andes mint in my green frosting instead of the chocolate bit on yours, though.
they look delicious!

losslustlove December 24 2007, 01:09:48 UTC

The chocolate bit was actually a mint chocolate bud. My boyfriend had bought a box of them awhile back but they got pushed to the back of the cupboard. I found them last night and I thought they would work just perfectly on top of my cupcakes. Truthfully, they were a bit hard for such a soft cupcake. But, if it wasn't your cup of tea, they were easy to remove. And, looks are very important haha.

jessalie_aranya December 24 2007, 01:11:26 UTC

Those look yummy...*licks lips* Hmmm...I wonder if we have the ingredients in the cupboard.

And I like your 'love Jessica' pic too. :D

biggestphan December 24 2007, 01:50:58 UTC

a) what sort of tips were you using. I'm always jealous when people get the big swirls. I only get little swirls =/
b) where do you get those containers?!

thank you =]

losslustlove December 24 2007, 04:13:18 UTC

Uh, I just started piping... so I don't know if there are names for the type of tips I used... but they kind of looked like this. ( http://www.cookies-in-motion.com/images/pipingtips.jpg ) I know that they were quite big and I remember thinking they were almost too big, but they turned out perfect.

That was probably no help, sorry :(

And I got those containers from a place called MTF Wholesale. Don't know if they have any outside of BC, they must, but I don't know. They had a bunch of these for 10 cents. They also had giant plastic cake containers for 50 cents. :)

msclairvoyant December 24 2007, 02:38:34 UTC

Awesome. And here I am, still having not figured out how to get flat cupcake tops like that.

losslustlove December 24 2007, 04:15:07 UTC

I just tried a variety of different cake recipes. Finally came across a few that produced a flat top. This one was very different as it came out with a crispy top at the end that was very delicate and cracked easily. However, it tasted amazing like that, quite similar to a brownie without being overly rich.

bonniewynne December 24 2007, 04:59:49 UTC

Oooh pretty piping and cuppy cakes <3