Vegan and gluten free, this cake is chalky white in colour, especially if you use clear vanilla and coconut essence/extracts and coconut oil. Handy if you want to delicately colour it – light pink, aqua, yellow, any difficult colours would play nicely with this mix. Remember to bake in a light coloured pan if you …
Been baking. These are vegan cupcakes with cream cheese flavoured duotone buttercream roses. I know, cream cheese and buttercream do not sound vegan. Did you know professional buttercream is made from vegetable shortening? It keeps better*. Thank goodness – doing a cake decorating course without sampling the frosting would have been rather difficult. These babies will …
Almond Rose Cupcakes It’s incredible what people can do with a piping bag and some frosting. After I worked out the “petal cupcakes” style of “rose” (it’s super easy), I was up for a more realistic looking version. I also blame days of beng sick, sitting on the couch watching too much food TV. YouTube …
Special trick the first! Special trick the second! Today I learned not one, but two really cool things to do with cupcakes. Thing the first: How to pipe frosting so you get pretty multi-tonal icing. It looks way cool, though my cellphone pictures don’t really do ‘em justice (#lazy). Thing the second: That an upturned plastic …
Twitter’s Hottest Home Baker is a project conjured up over sashimi one lunch break. We were dissatisfied with the cupcake making on a television baking competition, and thought it would be great to compete with all of Twitter. Priya took this little concept, and ran with it. Very far. There’s a random mystery theme, a …