Frosting Slid Off!!
Decorating By apartyinyourtummy Updated 23 Nov 2009 , 5:16am by apartyinyourtummy
Hi everyone. i'm new here. i started an at home cupcake and cake decorating business recently and I had my very first cupcake delivery disaster yesterday. i was hoping some one could help me figure out what happened??
I made pumpkin cupcakes. i had never made them before. I made cream cheese frosting and I have used this numerous times with no incidents. Some where during delivery, the frosting slid off on about 1/4 of the cupcakes. Some i was able to repair but others i was not. I was so disappointed and the customer was a little upset.
What did i do wrong? I didn't hit the breaks, i drove carefully, I don't understand why this happened. is it because the pumpkin cupcakes were too moist?? Any ideas. they were completely cooled so i know it wasn't a heat thing. any ideas?? how can i prevent this in the future?
So how cheap are you, exactly? 
I would think in the OC you could charge a good amount. Anyways......was the recipe oil based? Since you had never tried it before seeing how they would behave for a paying gig....not sure what to tell you with that. Probably the new recipe you used.
I range from $1.00-$3.00 per cupcake. It just depends on what is going on them and everything. For cakes, it varies. The recipe was not oily in fact I didn't use any oil at all. but canned pumpkin tends to be kind of greasy so maybe it was that?? i don't know. it was very frustrating. they tasted GREAT but the frosting slid off on some.
yesterday was fairly chilly in the 60's so the heat was not an issue and I did not refrigerate them. Maybe I should add more sugar to the frosting if i'm going to be putting it on such a moist cake??
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