I made some cupcakes... which started out pretty successfully until I got to the icing. I attempted to make pink buttercream icing, so mixed clover (light), icing sugar and red food colouring. I'm not sure whether I just didn't use enough icing sugar, or whether it was because I used clover light, or whether it was the food colouring - but that is some weird looking, sloppy, orange icing haha. Doesn't taste as bad as it looks though! Does anyone have any fool-proof icing tips?
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I think it'll be the fact that you used Clover. Clover is basically margarine and doesn't have the same hold as you would get if you used regular butter (sorry, I'm a bit of a baking geek!) The cakes look really yummy though :D
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Yeah you really can't use anything apart from butter in butter icing.
ReplyDeleteFor my butter icing (which I use to pipe onto cupcakes) I use 150g butter and 250g icing sugar :)
Love your pink cupcake tray!
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I think stork makes the best icing! But so long as they taste good it doesn't matter! Xo
ReplyDeleteCakey mess is the best type of mess! I'd still eat them x
ReplyDeleteLooks yummy still ahah :0
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My first cupcakes looked (and tasted) horrible thanks to the weird icing recipe. If you find a good one, please tell me. :D
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You could always buy the pre-made buttercream icing :) xx
ReplyDeleteThey look good but I guess it was because of the stork. Love the sprinkles though!
ReplyDeleteMm, cake mess! Buttercream does require real butter though, the oil in marg makes it go all sloppy; not one for the waistline!
ReplyDeleteThese look really yummy :)
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Those cakes look scrumptious! You should check out the oreo chocolate brownies that I made on my blog!! Yeah I think it probably was the clover, if you use stork it has a much better consistency too it, but no worries you learn through experimenting right :D
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