My coworker is expecting -now past due-and I was asked to help decorate (see above - the extent of my artistic prowess) and bake cupcakes for her shower. I gladly accepted and used the opportunity as an excuse to buy myself a cupcake caddy. I may never use it again, but for the purpose of bringing 24 cupcakes to work, this thing is amazing.
As far as the cupcakes go, they were as expected. This was my work baking debut, so I was already nervous, but they came out alright. Just alright. The frosting hardened, and as with most baked goods they are best fresh, so they were a bit dry. All in all they worked out, but next time I would use a different buttercream recipe and bake them the morning of instead of the night before.
For these cupcakes, I used the yellow butter cake recipe out of Rose's Heavenly Cakes. For the buttercream I followed a recipe from Smitten Kitchen. The recipe consisted of whipping butter for a few minutes and then adding four cups of powdered sugar in slowly. The result was overly sweet and heavy. I was looking for the light, whipped, glossy buttercream you get in stores. I am working on it.
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