Today is my 20th birthday, but I do not plan to bake or have cupcakes. I am honestly more intrigued by the concept of a cupcake than the taste. I only figured it was appropriate to blog about cupcakes on my birthday.
The first cupcake I baked was a chocolate buttermilk cake with a coconut cream cheese frosting. The next week, I baked a moccachino cupcake with a coffee butter cream frosting. Both of those attempts went by with no problems. Both batches of cupcakes tasted delicious and look fantastic! My moccachino cupcakes have been the best looking cupcakes I have made to date. Last week, I decided to make cake balls. That worked out perfectly, as well.
On August 28th, I went to a cupcake decorating class (a Christmas gift from my parents). So I go and I learn how to make all of these great cupcakes and I learn how to make cake balls. Everything was going perfectly until it was time to decorate. One of the cupcakes that we (the class) made was a carrot cake. Traditionally carrot cake has a carrot decoration on it. Instead of using icing, we used marzipan. Marzipan is made of sugar and almonds; that's it. So I'm rolling carrots out of this marzipan (something I have never worked with before) and all of a sudden my hands are itchy. I just assumed it was from the friction of rolling it in my hands. Then the feeling in my hands starts to get really uncomfortable. By now my hands are really greasy so decide to wash them off. I look at my hands and notice they are swelling up, puffy, red, and I'm getting hives all over. Apparently, I developed an almond allergy. So yeah, it sucked, but I'm alive.
Chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate ganache
Chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate ganache
Variety of cupcakes from the class
Tropical carrot cake cucpakes with a cream cheese frosting and marzipan carrot
Moccachinno cupcakes with a coffee buttercream frosting
Chocolate buttermilk cupcake with a coconut cream cheese frosting
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