Cupcake and cake pop bonanza!
Very late post this week, but it was a special week. I was asked to bake for my brother in law wedding.
They wanted cupcake to use as place setting and cake pops for the sweet table.
Earlier on in the year, I had arranged a tasting with them and they decided on three flavour: lemon, vanilla and caramel.
As I am working full time I tried to be as organised as
possible. I took one day of work and did all my order online. Food
arrived on the Wednesday as planned but unfortunately the boxes
didn't... So on the Friday morning, after dropping T boy at nursery I
had to rush to the shop before getting back home and starting a 6h
baking Marathon.
This is the basic recipe I used for all three.
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| Recipe from The hummingbird bakery, cake days |
For the
lemon I added the zest of three lemon, and for caramel I added 100g of dulce de leche. You can also used caramel sauce.
I was planning to core them and add caramel sauce or lemon
curd in the middle but time was getting tight so I left it out. Instead
for the caramel cupcake I mixed it with the icing.
For the lemon cupcake, I put some spoon of curd on the side
of the icing bag before putting the icing and got a nice yellow and
white swirl.
Unfortunately I don't have picture of most of the preparation as I was rushing so much.
For the cake pops, I made the red velvet one.
Same one made in this post: http://theweeklybaker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/week-4-part-1-red-velvet-cupcakes.html
I used two different brand for the coating and added some
vegetable oil for a smooth finish. One chocolate was a lot easier to use
and gave a smoother result. I got it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008E9BIWS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
I was quite proud with all the hard work and relived when
all was packed.
Unfortunately some didn't travel as well as I wished.
Some where a bit crushed when we arrived at the hotel. I couldn't quite
face it so a and them in the fridge and only faced it the following day.
I did have the good idea to take some spare icing with me. Most if them
were fine and I just re-iced the other one. And here is the result:
Everyone loved them and the cake pop were also a success. Especially by T boy who keep going back for more!
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