Since discovering the light and loveliness of SMBC I've been putting on clouds of icing on my cupcakes, and I've gotten in the habit of eating the cupcakes with a fork. Suddenly it seemed like I might be the only person doing this. Do you?
AYes I eat them with a fork. Maybe it makes me feel more delicate...attacking the cupcake with a fork not mouth?
Anyway, I hate sticky fingers, and my kids will always "need" me the minute I want to eat something, so this way I can grab bites with a fork each time I go past!
depends on how messy it is -- i like to break off the bottom of the cupcake and make a cupcake sandwich with the icing in between the cake pieces -- course sometimes i just discard the part i break off to ramp up the icing to cake ratio but you can't do that if they are filled -- i'm probably a 'no' on the fork thing
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depends on how messy it is -- i like to break off the bottom of the cupcake and make a cupcake sandwich with the icing in between the cake pieces --
A cupcake sandwich??......you learn something new every day!! @-K8memphis you're a walking talking cake historian.
I actually started loving the jumbo cakes (that I make wider than tall) as it gives me more room for lots of Swiss Meringue ButterCream on top.
A cupcake sandwich??......you learn something new every day!! @-K8memphis you're a walking talking cake historian.
bwuwahahaha i have the cellulite to prove it
those are pretty floswirlas er ah lovely swirlaflowsers er ah ingenious combo :)
MBAlaska, how did you get that deep orange color? I used wilton candy oils colors for my SMBC and couldn`t tint that dark color.
@Natka81 first things first.......how do you eat cupcakes.......fork or fist? ha ha ha
Your flowers are really nice, I'd like to get 'C' tip petals that smooth and neat, and your colors are very pretty pastel.
I tried the suggestion to use the Wilton Candy Oils, which are expensive BTW, and it took nearly a half a bottle of color to bring up a richer color. Too expensive for me!!
So I'm back to using Americolor gels. I put Peach gel in the normally yellow buttercream, adding gel until I got it darker. It never gets dark, I'd have to make AMBC for dark colors. But it must have taken about 1/3 tsp to get the peachy color that dark. {I just had a cup of coffee and one of those cupcakes.}
Thank you, MBAlaska, I eat cupcakes with fork. It is neat. I find it very messy to bite a cupcake and end up with icing on my nose.
Yes, candy oils don`t help much, I think because I don`t add much butter in my SMBC and meringue will tint only pastel colors.
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Thank you, MBAlaska, I eat cupcakes with fork. It is neat. I find it very messy to bite a cupcake and end up with icing on my nose.
Yes, candy oils don`t help much, I think because I don`t add much butter in my SMBC and meringue will tint only pastel colors.
@Natka81 any luck getting darker colors? I still can't get my petals as smooth, neat, and even as yours. I've been practicing
and I absolutely positively have to eat those jumbo cupcakes with a fork. It's just to big for me.
No luck, for darker color I will stick to gel colors.
Anyway, I have noticed that people scrape off darker colored icing.
I prefer a teaspoon. Less chance of the SMBC escaping.
Good move having the flower a much darker color that the underneath swirl. Draws you eye away, and hence your mind, from the fact that you have twice as much buttercream.
Now, MB, we could start a great philisophical debate (like does a tree falling in the forest make noise if no-one is there to hear it), about whether or not the extra calories from the swirl of buttercream under the flower counts if your mind does not perceive them.
I think that no matter what big fibs my mouth tells about the calories, the 'chubby chipmunk' cheeks would give me away. lol
Like my photo of the 5 purple cupcakes. There were 6, but since I have to wait till the next day to take a photo with sunlight..............well........
I made a fresh pot of Kona coffee imported from the sunny Hawaiian islands and I ate one late at night. With A FORK.
AMy grandmother used too say that broken biscuits didn't have calories because they fell out when they were broken in to pieces. Maybe breaking the cupcakes open with a fork or spoon means that their calories fall out too.... And I use a teaspoon to eat my desserts, because then you get lots more bites. The smaller the bite, the more of them you get!
After years of watching and laughing my husband has finally taken to the teaspoon as well. The only difference is that he likes to use one with a long handle. Not sure why.
AMaybe the long handle feels more manly?
Sorry, that was wrong in so many ways....who can figure men and their motivations out, honestly?
so "swirlaflowers" as @-K8memphis has named them (frosting flowers on frosting swirls) could be eaten from a nosebag he he That would have been a good category for the poll It's good to laugh.
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