About 3
months ago, my husband bought me a wonderful book called “Hello, Cupcake”. It is a
delightful quasi-cookbook that gives you many creative ideas on decorating
cupcakes. Note, I am not talking about
the dreaded cupcake cake – a confection consisting of cupcakes that are made to
look like a “cake” by slathering a horrifying amount of frosting on top. No, this is taking a single cupcake and
decorating it as a dog or an elf. It
gives a few recipes to get you started and shows you how to turn
candy/frosting/cake into designs worthy of charging people to make.
I’ve read
this book over and over and finally decided to try my first design. It was meant to be a Valentine’s Day design,
but life got in the way and I didn’t get around to making it until March. I selected Box of Chocolates
which are mini-cupcakes designed to look like candies.
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| © Hello, Cupcake |
Looks
adorable, doesn’t it? So I bought a
ridiculous amount of candy and everything I needed to make the cupcakes,
frosting and decorate. Unfortunately, I
couldn’t find a decent size chocolate box, so I bought a Valentine’s Day
decorated see-through box. I figured it
was a win-win.
The whole
process will be detailed in a future post – I’m running about a month ahead of
what I’m making – but I wanted to share the unfortunate account of what
happened this day, March 3, 2011.
