So I was making a test run of the cupcakes that I am making for Easter yesterday, and I made a strawberry whipped cream filling to put inside the cupcakes. Problem was, when I filled them using the Bismarck tip, even shoving the tip in as far as I could, they barely got any filling at all.
I'm wondering if it might be the cake recipe I used? I used a buttermilk cake recipe, which is really dense, but I also don't want to make cupcakes that will fall apart (I'm decorating them with fondant basket handles and gumpaste flowers to look like flower baskets)!!!!!!!
I just don't want to waste the filling I have! Any advice?
<3ToniMarie
When I use this tip, I stick it in and then "swirl" it around to move some of the cake out of the way and make more room for the filling. Then fill as normal.
I have seen others mention using a melon scoop or something similiar in size and scooping out the middle to get more filling in there.
HTH
Definitely. I squirt to the left, then squirt to the right, then squirt on the way up.
sounds like a song. Cupcake Hokey Pokey.
So it doesn't matter what kind of cake recipe I use? I just figured it was because the cupcakes were a bit dense...
<3Toni Marie
During Martha Stewart's Cupcake Week a while back, she had someone who used an apple corer to pull out a little core from the middle of the cupcake before filling.
Not wanting to have ANOTHER tool in my drawer, I used a great big piping tip (I think it's called the french star?) with the little sawteeth? I slowly twist it into the center, not to the bottom, then angle to pull up a perfect little center. Then I just pipe the filling into the empty hole.
In Elinor Klivans cupcake book, she just uses a paring knife to carve out a little cone shape.
I have been trying different pairings of flavors with the bismarck tip and I found that it doesn't really matter what density the cake is. I use the same method that leah uses, but it sounds like the other method of taking a small section of cake out of the middle works good also. Good luck! Let me know what method ends up working best for you.
How thick was your filling? I was having a problem getting filling in my cupcakes with the Bismark. I thinned out my filling and--problem solved. Could be a cake problem, could be a filling problem, could be a combo of both. I've been there.
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