Over the weekend I had 2 cake projects to complete; a baby shower cake and some rainbow birthday cupcakes. I thought that the cupcakes would be a piece of cake, no pun intended! Well, turns out that they were a total nightmare. I had made a batch of cupcakes from a new recipe a few days prior and they were pretty awesome so I agreed to use that recipe. The only thing I thought was that they were a little dry or too "cake-y" for cupcakes so I added 1/3 of a cup of vegetable oil to the ingredients.
When I baked the cupcakes, after coloring the batter 7 shades of rainbow, I took them out of the oven and they had fallen in the middle! They were completely un-saveable and had to dump 36 cupcakes!!!!! I can't tell you how angry this made me! Grrr!
I whipped up a second batch (using my go-to recipe) and colored 7 shades of rainbow AGAIN; these turned out fine. You should have seen all the rainbow colored (dirty) bowls in my sink after this fiasco!
Once they were all baked, I made a batch of icing (red). Well, I didn't think that the color red was going to be so terribly hard to acheive! I used 3 large red Wilton color gel tubes and I had a salmon color whipping around my machine! At that point, I was in crisis mode, considering I had another project that deperately need my attention! This is where the boyfriend came in handy as I sent him on a hunt for Red-Red icing color (by Wilton). The icing finally turned red, but I was very unhappy with the bitter after taste left by the frosting. Does anyone know how to get rid of that without jeopardizing the true red color?
I would have posted pictures of the cupcakes, but like I said, I dumped them in the trash during my small fit of rage.
Thank you to anyone who reads this and actually allows me to vent; from one caker to another!
When I baked the cupcakes, after coloring the batter 7 shades of rainbow, I took them out of the oven and they had fallen in the middle! They were completely un-saveable and had to dump 36 cupcakes!!!!! I can't tell you how angry this made me! Grrr!
I whipped up a second batch (using my go-to recipe) and colored 7 shades of rainbow AGAIN; these turned out fine. You should have seen all the rainbow colored (dirty) bowls in my sink after this fiasco!Once they were all baked, I made a batch of icing (red). Well, I didn't think that the color red was going to be so terribly hard to acheive! I used 3 large red Wilton color gel tubes and I had a salmon color whipping around my machine! At that point, I was in crisis mode, considering I had another project that deperately need my attention! This is where the boyfriend came in handy as I sent him on a hunt for Red-Red icing color (by Wilton). The icing finally turned red, but I was very unhappy with the bitter after taste left by the frosting. Does anyone know how to get rid of that without jeopardizing the true red color?
I would have posted pictures of the cupcakes, but like I said, I dumped them in the trash during my small fit of rage.
Thank you to anyone who reads this and actually allows me to vent; from one caker to another!
