Next project: chocolate stout (Guiness) brownies with glaze for Matt's birthday next week! Any other requests for the near future? I do still have a ton of purple buttercream in my freezer...
This past Sunday my mom held a shower for my younger cousin Chris and his fiancee Meaghan. She asked us to make some desserts and a drink in our great dispenser. I cracked open the KitchenAid Mixer, and Martha Stewart Cupcakes book, and went to town. I chose some chocolate brownie cupcakes and tried two different icings - the first being a sweet icing-sugar base, and a buttercream base - the buttercream definitely won - the other icing was just too sweet in the large amounts. For mini-cupcakes it would have been better. Here's how they turned out: Mixer love, kitchen disaster, and a high-cholesterol omelette left after 5 egg whites were removed... Buttercream takes a while to go down the sink...everything was so slippery! Almost finished piped product... ...now the shimmer is added! Lavender setup for the shower at my parents' house Finished product - I was quite proud for a first try at pretty cupcakes! Old-fashioned pink lemonade - 22 fresh squeezed lemons later, some cranberry juice, a bit of lemon and raspberry garnish, and a lot of sugar makes a sweet summer drink! Next project: chocolate stout (Guiness) brownies with glaze for Matt's birthday next week! Any other requests for the near future? I do still have a ton of purple buttercream in my freezer...
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