First, I would like to just wish all the mothers out there a Happy Happy mother's day! We had a big family dinner- it was fabulous.
Moving on, I completed my first official cupcake order this week!! I cannot believe it! I was just passing word around at work that I would be willing to bake and sell cupcakes for events, and low and behold, someone took me up on it! One of the nurses had a graduation coming up for her niece and nephew, and asked me to do the cupcakes for the party. I was nothing less than ecstatic.
Her requested flavors were the "hostess" cupcakes (see previous blog post), and red velvet with cream cheese frosting. So exciting!
We'll start with the red velvet...such a vibrant red color-
This is your typical boxed mix- eggs, vegetable oil, & water. A lot of people don't even know that red velvet cake is actually just chocolate cake with red food coloring. The way the red color is able to come out so vibrant, is because of the addition on vinegar to the mix. That's all for the science portion of this post! So while I was trying to get it into the baking cups, I ended up with batter all over the place. You would have thought some sort of violence had just occurred! After getting everything cleaned up, this is what we have:
I chose a cute red baking cup with white polka dots! They are adorable! After some time in the oven and a little cool down, I started on the cream cheese frosting.
Seriously, what could be bad about cream cheese, butter, confectioner's sugar, & vanilla? I'll tell you, NOTHING. If you read most buttercream recipes, you'll see that it wants you to have the butter at room temp. While this is true, with the cream cheese frosting you want to only have the butter at room temp- add the cream cheese in cool from the fridge. It will hopefully stay a little bit stiffer that way, and make it easier to decorate your cakes. You kind of have to play with this frosting- it might be too savory- add some sugar, too sweet- add some cream cheese add butter. Just taste as you go along.
These look so delicious right now! Since it was a graduation themed party, I decided to make a little graduation hat for the top! I can't take all the credit for it, but I saw this cute idea on Pinterest. For the hats you'll need some royal icing, mini reese's cups, a bar or 2 of Cadbury milk chocolate (they are the perfect size, once you break up the squares), and some Twizzlers pull n' peel (for the tassels). Flip the reeses upside down- apply a dot of icing, and attach a square of chocolate. Add another dot of icing to the top of the chocolate square, and attach a little piece of the twizzler:
I cannot get over how cute these turned out! And the final product:
I'm not going to get crazy with the Hostess ones (if you want to know all about them, read the last blog post! :) )- but here are a few shots of them:
I got a text from my coworker Saturday night saying they were a hit! I'm so glad they turned out well!
I do have to give a HUGE shout out to my sister, Ashley. I could not have got this order done with out her! Thank you so much Asher! Well that's all for now; I'll see what other business I can drum up over at the hospital!
