Category: cupcakes

Count Down Cupcakes


Count Down Cupcakes

I know what you’re thinking.

What the hell are those?!

Well, you see, I had an idea. Some of my ideas are great. And then there are ideas like this one. It starts off promising, and then, well, smoosh.

So let me explain this cupcake misadventure.

I thought, hey New Year’s! Times Square… ball dropping… Count Down Cupcakes! The idea was to have a sugar crystal frosting ball suspended over chocolate cupcakes. You unwrap the cupcake, pull the stem through the bottom and voila! Your crystal ball descends and rings in the new year. You can see this to the left.

But oh, what a smooshy new year it is.

The frosting balls were really heavy, wobbling on their sticks and making larger and larger holes in the cupcakes. As they warmed they slid down their little sticks, ringing in 2007 on their own around 5:30 pm. Something had to be done, and fast.

I settled on removing the sticks and squashing the frosting balls, to make what resemble brightly colored cartoon mushroom caps sitting on top of the cucpakes. Here they are in all their.. glory…

Ah well! Happy New Year! VeganYumYum wishes you good tidings and strange little cupcakes throughout the 2007!

Lemon Gem Cupcakes


Lemon Gem Cupcakes

So what do you do when you are waiting for your cupcakes to cool?

Apparently I while away the hours filleting lemon peels with a sharp, sharp knife.

What? Why are you looking at me like that?

The recipe calls for a very tasty lemon glaze, but have had trouble in the past making those look good. You can’t go wrong with piped frosting, so I made a batch of the Lemon Buttercream from VCTOtW for these puppies. But then what? I wanted to use the lemon peel, and my crazy brain kept saying, “use the paper punch!”

It was such a bad idea, I had to try it. Of course, the paper punch was made for, you know, punching paper. The lemon peels had to be thinned a bit or else it wasn’t going to happen. So I filleted them.

Pretty huh? I cut the lemon in four quarters, and got four flowers out of each piece. It wasn’t even a large lemon! I’m definitely going to use this technique again, and I think it’ll work equally well for limes and oranges. Ooohh, the just think of the possibilities. I need to buy more paper punches, stat!

*edit*

Oh man, I should have candied the lemon peel flowers! Not only would you be able to eat them, but they’ll keep for 6 months – I could have made a whole batch of them! I realized I should have candied them last night while I was trying to fall asleep, but was reminded again this morning when I saw the cupcakes and my cute little flowers were all shriveled up. So sad!