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This weekend is all about the cupcake. And by the cupcake I really mean 4 dozen cupcakes. In 4 different flavors. With 4 different icings. And 4 different decorations.
If you haven't yet realized, I like to obsess. And I like to do things over the top. That are complicated. And time-consuming. So, when Ant's sister asked me to make a dessert for her wedding, I couldn't just offer to make a dozen or so vanilla cupcakes with store-bought frosting. Absolutely not. I decided to shoot for the moon - or a distant planet where this is normal - and make 4 dozen cupcakes. In 4 flavors. With 4 different icings. And 4 different decorations.
So, as of now, at 5:21 on Friday afternoon, T minus 2 days until the wedding, I have accomplished an utterly failed Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream (imagine clumps of yogurt swimming in Pepto Bismol), potentially fatal candied oranges (I'm sensing a rock-hard mass of beautiful orange slices, trapped forever in a lovely, but solidified, caramel ... like a mosquito preserved in sap), two very successful and delicious buttercreams - one vanilla and one strawberry, and (fingers crossed), some delicious blueberry cupcakes, which should be coming out of the oven ohhh .... NOW. Be right back.
Ah, yes. A successful cupcake batch #1.
Thanks, Martha.
Stay tuned. Lots more cupcake-mania to come.
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