Treats and Techniques

Mini Burgers and Chips

 

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been a while since I posted a blog, I've actually been a bit busy this week! I've been doing lots of different bakes this week, all in smaller quantities, so I thought one blog would do them all justice! 

These mini burgers and chips look a bit messy don't they! They were really interesting to make, and yes, they are 100% cupcake! I used a recipe from a magazine which uses piping gel to make mayonaise and ketchup in the burger, but I didnt have time to find any and used buttercream instead (which as you can see didnt really work out!). The 'lettuce' is buttercream and the 'burger' is chocolate ganache!

The 'chips' are actually fried!

The recipe states to cut up some of the cupcakes and fry them in a bit of butter and caster sugar. These babies burnt so quickly! Next time I would use a long tin to make the chips as they look more like wedges, being cut from cupcakes. Also, I would use less butter in the pan and turn them with tongs quickly!

I did like how the burgers turned out, but this was a practice of the recipe really, so they arent how I would present them normally!

Glamorous Ganache Cupcakes 

I wanted to make my boyfriend and I some cupcakes for treats, so I decided to use a small amount of a chocolate chip cupcake recipe and just have a bit of fun! I really loved the taste of the chocolate ganache I made for the mini burgers, so I thought, why not use it again for the cupcakes! I used to think that ganache was this impossible thing only experts made, but it is SO easy you wouldn't believe! Please try making it at home, as it is the most DELICIOUS tasting thing ever! 

So I decided to jazz these cupcakes up a little! I used edible glitter to get  lovely sparkle and edible pearly beads, placing them in the ganache so they look as though they are tumbling down it. I also used some chocolate coloured glitter, rolled it into white sugarpaste and made a butterfly to top it all off!

I am very please how these came out! Super tasty! 

Make Your Own Molds

When I went to the Cake Interational show, I bought a pack of silicone mold, which you can use to make your own molds. Everywhere I go, to buy new molds it is very expensive (around £10 for a pack of just 4) and this silicone cost me only £12 for one pack, which made all these molds! 

I was getting bored of just using that one butterfly cutter for everything! I used some of my own buttons and household objects to create some of these molds. I went to HobbyCraft the other day and bought several packs of different buttons and used these as molds too.

These made fantastic molds and I cant wait to use them! You can use molds for sugarpaste, chocolate and loads of other different things.

P.s. You really wont want to miss my next blog! You might start drooling!

 Thanks for reading!