Several months ago, I asked y'all for help as I prepared to make cupcakes for my friends' commitment ceremony. The advice I got was super helpful, so I wanted to pay it back by reporting on how it went and what I learned in the process.


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Has anyone tried doubling the basic chocolate or vanilla cupcakes from VCTOTW? Any trouble in doing so? I need to make about eight batches of each, and it would be awfully nice to cut that work in half. Since it's for a wedding, though, I can't afford to screw it up!

Thanks, everyone. Looks like this is a go. Whew!

Two dear (vegan) friends are getting married over Memorial Day weekend, and they've asked me to do cupcakes for the wedding. I've made my share of cupcakes and have VCTOTW, but I've never baked anything on this scale (120ish guests) nor of this importance. I'll be using an on-site commercial kitchen, which I probably won't have a chance to try out ( Read more... )

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hi guys! i am still transitioning from vegetarianism to veganism. i buy and make only vegan food but because i am very very poor, my bf usually brings me (vegetarian) food from his chef that is probably very often non-vegan.

however, i managed to make some red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting the other day!

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My wife and I did the desserts for my sisters wedding a week or so ago. Behold some of the awesomeness:


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WOW! is all i have to say. these were/are un-fucken-believable. the chai addiction gains strength, like some kind of careening juggernaut! NOM. repeat, nom.


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It seems like someone posted a question recently about transporting cupcakes, but I wasn't able to find it.  I'm wondering if anyone's ever tried freezing cupcake frosting, or knows how it would affect the texture if I tried it.  I'm baking cupcakes for a birthday party (16 hours) out of town, and I don't want to frost them before we leave.  I'm ( Read more... )

This past weekend I tried making the jelly donut cupcakes from V-Con. I followed the recipe perfectly according to instruction, but somehow the jelly that I put on top of the batter sank to the bottoms of the cupcake liners instead of baking into the middle of the cupcakes like they were supposed to. They tasted great, but the bottoms got all soggy ( Read more... )

Has anyone here had experience with freezing cupcakes (I'm making a bunch from VCTOTW)? If so, how do they rate? Do they defrost to normal texture and appearance? Do you freeze them iced or un-iced?

any experiences or tips would be greatly appreciated, even if its just "Don't freeze them, they turn out awful". =)

thanks.