So, after my initial disaster with the pink cupcakes, I half-way cleaned up the kitchen and started again. If you missed the first half of my day of baking, read it here. It was depressing, I'll admit. After all...out of the 48 cupcakes I had baked so far, I could only use 8 of them.
But I pushed on, baked another 24..and got back to decorating. What should have been 3 hours of work ended up being about 9 hours, but finally, I finished 24 strawberry cupcakes with cream cream cheese frosting.
Earlier in the day I made a bunch of pink and white flowers out of gum paste. That was my primary decoration.
I also used quite a bit of pink and white sugar sprinkles.
At my husband's request (the cupcakes were ordered by his coworker), I also did some of them "swirly" with white and pink icing. And some I just made "plain"...
And that was that... 72 cupcakes later and I had 24 (plus a few extra) finished cupcakes. Since I extras decorated, hubby is going to take those to work to share. But that left me still with around 40 slightly scorched and/or damaged cupcakes. So, I let the kids decorate a few, and I turned a few into Christmas cupcakes.
Now, if I could decide what to do with the 20ish I still have left...any suggestions? I hate to throw them out and I know my kids will eat them (scorch and all), but they don't need more sugar! I'd love to hear your suggestions!
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I wonder if you could make them into some form of sweet bread pudding... Perhaps mixed with left over pond cake. Or they would be really good cut up and used in a trifle. Sometimes the little mess ups lead to the best inventions.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I have left over cupcakes, I give them away to family , friends or neighbors.
ReplyDeleteYou can allways freeze cake (unfrosted is better) just "flash freeze" by placing on cookie sheet in freezer for about 15 minutes or so and them drop them in a ziplock bag.
ReplyDeleteOr, my favorite thing to do with leftover cake is to make cake balls. You can find the recipe at bakerella dot com Basically you take the cake, mix it with frosting get it all crumbly then roll it in to balls and dip in chocolate. I even fill my cake balls with raspberry or strawberry preserves as a filling.