nearly there

cupcakes again

I have laboured very hard today. I was up at 06h20 with children, and went on to ice cupcakes, make fresh buttercream, and then deliver them to the Fun Day event at the church an hour before.
This evening I have made another two dozen cupcakes, one chocolate cake and coloured one big pot of red buttercream icing. I'm annoyed at myself for losing Janine Rose's buttercream recipe because it was superb, and the stuff I made today is too crystaline (I'm assuming the ratio of icing sugar to butter is too high). Will keep hunting.
Tomorrow I need to turn the chocolate cake into a Spiderman cake, and the cupcakes into red and blue spider-satellite things. I feel tired already, but by this time tomorrow I'll have my feet up.

half way through

eager little fingers

OK, so we've got to Friday and so far we've made wicked chocolate biscuits (Apple Publishing recipe), and Nigella's cupcakes/fairy cakes recipe last night. I decorated them with the blue liquid colouring mixed into the bog-standard butter cream icing. I have now decided that the liquid colouring is terrible - just like they told me at the cupcake decorating evening. It is such terrible quality. I ended up with blue-grey which you can't really fix. What a waste of icing! Thank goodness for "confetti" which Keith sprinkled ontop. I need to buy some colouring paste now and pronto! I have to make the cake & cupcakes tomorrow for the big day on Sunday.

kwazy week

this is going to be one mad bad baking week. Thursday is a guest event at Focus, with a tie-in to A Passion For Life (nationwide) and I'm contributing. Saturday is a big Family Fun Day, and I'm baking for that too. And of course Sunday is Zack's 4th birthday party which I have promised myself I'll make spiderman cupcakes for.
I think I'll probably be all cupcaked out by next week, but it'll be fun. I picked up some glorious Wilton stuff while I was in the USA last week, so that'll steer me on my way, and i've just spotted a new buttercream recipe online which I'll have to try.