Hello Cupcakes!

I love to bake when I have free time so I made some cupcakes. Baking is a fun hobby because you have fun making the food and then you feel proud of yourself for actually making it. However, my favorite part of baking is getting to decorate the food. For my first blog I wanted to start of easy and bake simple vanilla cupcakes and on them I used vanilla frosting, gel icing, sprinkles and paper decorations. I let my siblings decorate most of them since they're younger and it's more fun for them.

Now, you may think that icing a cupcake is easy, but it isn't! In order to get the frosting to look pretty, you have to use lots of techniques. The book Hello Cupcakes by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson has lots of tips for spreading frosting, it says, "Creating  a perfectly smooth or nicely swirled top is a cinch. Your aim is to spread the frosting up to but not over the edge of the paper liner and to glue down the crumbs in the process. Hold the cupcake by its paper base in one hand and grasp the spatula in the other. Spread the frosting with a clockwise motion, while turning the cupcake counterclockwise." (Tack, Richardson, 10) This helped me a lot because I would usually just use a spoon and spread the frosting but because of the book i realized what i was supposed to do and my frosting abilities improved.

They tasted delicious! This time the cupcakes were fun and silly but don’t worry, next time the cupcakes are going to be more serious and creative. :) 

Have you ever baked cupcakes before? And how did they turn out?

Richardson, Alan, and Karen Tack. Hello, Cupcake! Houghton Mifflin, 2009.