Sunday, 15 January 2012
Sunday, 1 January 2012
New Year Cupcakes
Happy New Year!
It is 2012 and already I have crafty plans afoot. In this post i'll describe how I made the cakes above and projects i'm considering in the next few months.
First, and most importantly, the cakes!
To begin I made vanilla cupcakes to a standard mix. The BBC have a good recipe to follow. I mixed up some buttercream icing and slightly tinted it yellow with a couple of drops of food colouring. This meant it matched the gold cases and golden sprinkles on top.
The champagne bottles are shaped green fondant icing with white icing labels. I wrote on 2012 using an edible black ink pen and added the gold round the neck with slightly damp gold sugar paper sprinkles. The pen and gold paper can be sought from good cake and craft suppliers. The "bubbles" are silver balls, which you can find in most supermarkets.
The 2012s are simply piped chocolate candies (again from good cake decoration suppliers- better than just chocolate as it is easy to melt in the microwave, easy to mold, and quick to set). I say simply... it took a few goes to get them to look readable and not fall apart on me!
The clocks are white fondant icing rolled and cut to shape, with chocolate piped on at the hour marks. The clock hands are drawn on with a black edible ink pen. I was going to use large chocolate buttons as clock faces but they didn't look right, so I had to consume the whole pack myself. Tough times.
It is nice at new year to plan a few projects for the future. Having increased my knitting confidence with my mobile phone cover I have decided to be brave and attempt an item of clothing, maybe a jumper, or maybe just a nice scarf! I'm also creating lots of swatches of knitting as I try out different knitting stitch patterns and perhaps after a few more I can start creating a patchwork quilt. I say all this, but, after one trip down a craft shop I will probably see something shiny and new and get distracted and start another project... but that's how my crafting works, a bit of this, a bit of that, it's what does you good.
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