Christmas Cupcakes

These are some cupcakes my little sis made at chrimbo for her class party. They're basic butter cakes, and peppermint butter icing with choccy santas and coconut on top. They were yummy scrumboes as well!

Cupcakes by my little sis, photography by me :D

How to mess up cupcakes...

I was in the kitchen today, making cupcakes, and I decided to decorate them with little green and blue piped flowers. But when I piped the flowers on, they resembled a giant lump of nothing more than flowers. So I decided to mix the green icing with the buttercream that was already on the cupcake and just put little funny Dr. Seuss-like blobs on the top. The photography makes the cakes look better than they actually are, trust me. But I thought I'd post these pictures anyway because I'm bored and have nothing else to do :)

Flower Cupcakes

These are cupcakes that I made last year, before I discovered the art of fanciful photography, but they still look okay nonetheless. They're just basic butter cupcakes with butter icing, but the way I made the flowers is really cool.

So I was at a local market one day, and I discovered this stall with all these little icing decorations all over the table. When I went up to the stall, I discovered that the lady wasn't selling the decorations, but the silicone moulds to make the decorations. So my mum got me one, and it's the most helpful little tool ever.

You just buy some soft fondant icing, colour it as normal, and then coat it in some cornflour. Then you press it into the mould, smooth out the top and pop it out. Yay! A flower!