Let’s Talk About Mini Cupcakes
The last two weeks I’ve worked with mini cupcakes. They are fun because they are bite sized—but they are a lot of work.
Last week I made red velvet mini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and funfetti mini cupcakes with buttercream. My mom asked me to make cupcakes for her art gallery opening. The theme was “colorful!” You may not have seen my mom’s artwork, but you should check out her Facebook page to get a taste for what she does. She is a master of color and movement, and this show is a retrospective look at her art.
I decorated these cupcakes in a more traditional manner. I used a big tip and swirled the frosting on top of the cupcakes. Then I sprinkled some coordinating edible sparkles on top.
At the art gallery they displayed them on a fun ceramic plate that looked like a painters palette.
This week my aunt and uncle were visiting from Michigan. My uncle wanted to surprise my aunt with a themed birthday party and cupcake mosaic. Our theme was “Happy Trails” because they’ve been doing a lot of bike riding. So our goal was to make a cupcake mosaic that looks like a bike—we went with mini cupcakes. Standard sized cupcakes would have been too big for the delicate work needed for the bike frame and wheels.
My uncle did all of the baking—he made a batch of vanilla cupcakes and a batch of gluten free chocolate cupcakes.
We used frosting from a can, which was a lot easier than making homemade frosting. Chocolate frosting worked perfectly for the tires, pedal, bike seat, and handlebar. For the bike frame I dyed creamy vanilla frosting my aunt’s favorite shade of aqua. He came up with the idea for the clouds and the German Chocolate frosting for a dirt path. I had a lot of fun working on this with my uncle.
These projects were very different, but had a couple things in commons. Both were a lot of tedious baking work (my uncle and I agreed that the baking part takes too long because you have to make so many). Both were tasty. Both were fun and the perfect project for their events.
