Adventures in Baking
So, the other day I decided to make Andorian cupcakes. Obviously this required pictorial documentation.
First I whipped up the batter. I used a box mixed that we had kicking around the cupboards, figuring that it was just going to sit there otherwise (my parents both being gluten-free). It was a marbled cake mix, not really meant for cupcakes, but who's going to know? Except for all of you, of course.
I mixed the icing while the cupcakes were baking.
Then I added the blue food colouring (Andorians are, in case you were unaware, blue. Well, some of them are).
It turned out that the food colouring hadn't been capped properly last time (oops), and wow. That stuff really stains.
I decided to only ice four cupcakes. The rest were either going in the freezer (did I mention that both my parents are gluten-free?) or on a picnic the next day (rather too hot for icing).
austere_mauve suggested coconut for hair. Seemed like a brilliant idea!
Then I coated some potato sticks in icing for the antennae, and put some chocolate chips in for eyes. I think they turned out rather well, me not being much for cake decorating :-D
First I whipped up the batter. I used a box mixed that we had kicking around the cupboards, figuring that it was just going to sit there otherwise (my parents both being gluten-free). It was a marbled cake mix, not really meant for cupcakes, but who's going to know? Except for all of you, of course.
I mixed the icing while the cupcakes were baking.
Then I added the blue food colouring (Andorians are, in case you were unaware, blue. Well, some of them are).
It turned out that the food colouring hadn't been capped properly last time (oops), and wow. That stuff really stains.
I decided to only ice four cupcakes. The rest were either going in the freezer (did I mention that both my parents are gluten-free?) or on a picnic the next day (rather too hot for icing).
austere_mauve suggested coconut for hair. Seemed like a brilliant idea!
Then I coated some potato sticks in icing for the antennae, and put some chocolate chips in for eyes. I think they turned out rather well, me not being much for cake decorating :-D