Vanilla Cupcakes

Delicious Vanilla Cupcakes

Hello everyone! So I made these cupcakes from two different recipes, the cake is a basic vanilla cupcake recipe using vanilla paste from the "Boutique Baking" book by Peggy Porschen. The vanilla buttercream is made just by mixing icing sugar, butter and vanilla paste together.

I made the buttercream in two slightly different shades of pink, to give the roses a little bit of depth to them.

The butterfly decorations are made from sugarpaste, mixed with sugarcel. This means that they set hard and don't go soft when you put them on the buttercream.

I finished the butterflies off by painting them with edible

lustre and added a sprinkle of glitter to the buttercream roses.

 

How to transport cupcakes (on a budget)

 

So usually I just put cupcakes in a spare food tub to transport them and just use foil barriers to try to stop them squashing each other. 

But today I had a brainwave! 

 

I decided to cut some plastic cups in half and place each cupcake in a cup. This means that each cupcake has a sturdy ring around it, preventing it from being squashed and stopping the icing getting stuck to the other cupcakes.  

                                           

The cupcakes are then easily released by popping them up from the base.                                                      

This method worked perfectly and is ideal if you don't have the money to buy an expensive cupcake carrier! 

I'm really pleased with how these turned out. I think the roses themselves could be better, but this is the first time I've used a star nozzle to create them. So I think I just need a bit more practice!

Thanks for reading!