Baby Shower Cupcakes!

 Hi again,
These mini cupcakes are a test run for the baby shower cupcakes i will be making this weekend,
The ones with the dots on them are little buttons :)
For the baby foot you could use fondant, but i decided to go for butter cream.

what you will need:
*Blue mini jellybeans
*butter cream frosting
*blue writing icing
*Fondant
*white icing
*blue and green food die
*small round cutter x2(one large, one small or back of icing tip , like i used)
*roller pin
*min cupcakes (cooled)

To make the Buttons:
kneed and tint your fondant using your desired colour and roll out to about 2mm thick,
Use your larger round cutter to cut out a circle and place on the cupcake
I couldn't find my round cutters so i improvised and used the back of
one of my tips (pictured). Using the smaller round cutter, gently press to make an indentation.
Then with the white writing icing , make four dots.
To make the Baby foot cupcakes:
Frost the cupcake with blue butter cream, Place mini jellybean on cupcake and pipe on the toes with blue writing icing.
Have a go! :)

Flower cupcakes

Hey there,
i made these cupcakes for my Niece's High Tea Birthday Party, got lots of good comments about the flavour and presentation. Ended up making 50 of these and their quite simple to make.
I used a white chocolate mud cupcakes, frosted them with normal butter cream frosting in blue, pink,yellow and red. The flowers are just paper cut-outs (from mums huge collection) and just attached to a paddle-pop stick.

Elena xo

Mini Cupcakes

Hey everyone,
these cupcakes are great for a high tea or a little girls party. I love them because their just a mouthful.. (no need to feel guilty) ;)
Have a go.
Elena xo

Makes: about 18

Ingredients:

• 100g butter, softened
• 1/3 cup caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup self-raising flour
• 1/3 cup desiccated coconut
• 1/4 cup milk

For the icing i just used a normal butter cream with the tiniest bit of pink food colouring.

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, caster sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add egg and beat to combine. Combine flour and coconut into the bowl. Stir into butter mixture alternately with the milk. Mix until just combined. Divide mixture between muffin holes.
2. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer inserted into one of the cupcakes comes out clean. Stand cakes in pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
3. After the cupcakes have cooled completely, pipe on the icing

My sure fire method for icing cupcakes is i pipe a ring around the outside of the cupcake and just keep going inwards piping circles until i get to the middle and then i quickly pull up leaving a little star shape.