Too many cupcakes
Jul. 7th, 2019 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoOh boy.
My mom's become interested in cake decorating lately, so we spent some time this afternoon experimenting with that. She bought some "Russian" piping tips, and they're really interesting to work with. They make flowers, and instead of doing each petal individually, you pipe the whole flower in one go.
You can see how they work over here - there are lots of examples on the internet, this is just one of them. I didn't use the buttercream recipe from here - ours does not require eggs.
I posted some examples of my attempt on tumblr. They didn't turn out quite as nice, but then again, I never even use regular cake tips, never mind fancy ones, so I guess it's not a bad attempt. ;)
This was also my first time using gel food colouring. I really like it! I'd only used liquid drip before, and found it hard to get a vivid, consistent colour. I thought it would be hard to find, but it turns out our grocery store does carry gel colour; I'd just never noticed it before.
Also, when doing two colours, I find that using plastic wrap is more convenient than just putting it directly into the bag. You spread the bolder colour out in a line, and then you put a line of the lighter colour down the centre of that line, and then you use the plastic wrap to roll them over another. And then you put the icing, inside the plastic wrap, into your piping bag.If I wasn't doing this, I probably would have made even more of a mess....
Anyway, I don't want to look at frosting ever again, thank you. ;p I've had quite enough for now.
My mom's become interested in cake decorating lately, so we spent some time this afternoon experimenting with that. She bought some "Russian" piping tips, and they're really interesting to work with. They make flowers, and instead of doing each petal individually, you pipe the whole flower in one go.
You can see how they work over here - there are lots of examples on the internet, this is just one of them. I didn't use the buttercream recipe from here - ours does not require eggs.
I posted some examples of my attempt on tumblr. They didn't turn out quite as nice, but then again, I never even use regular cake tips, never mind fancy ones, so I guess it's not a bad attempt. ;)
This was also my first time using gel food colouring. I really like it! I'd only used liquid drip before, and found it hard to get a vivid, consistent colour. I thought it would be hard to find, but it turns out our grocery store does carry gel colour; I'd just never noticed it before.
Also, when doing two colours, I find that using plastic wrap is more convenient than just putting it directly into the bag. You spread the bolder colour out in a line, and then you put a line of the lighter colour down the centre of that line, and then you use the plastic wrap to roll them over another. And then you put the icing, inside the plastic wrap, into your piping bag.If I wasn't doing this, I probably would have made even more of a mess....
Anyway, I don't want to look at frosting ever again, thank you. ;p I've had quite enough for now.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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