Yes, I know babies can't eat cupcakes! I wanted to try out a new technique and I thought - what better way than to make cupcakes for my future niece, her hubby and their new baby; Hailey Mae! And by "future niece" I mean my fiance's niece, Aimee! (Well actually I think that technically she IS my niece because Jeff and I have been together for 7 years now! So I'll just refer to her as my niece from here on out!) ANYWAY, I wanted to try my hand at dipping frosted cupcakes in chocolate. YUM right? Well, the finished product came out awesome, but I lost one along the way! More on that later....
I imagine that someday I will either get way better at taking pictures OR I'll get a different camera that allows me just to snap and it will do the rest OR I'll have a pro take all my pictures! But for now, it's just me! So these are the
yummies! Dark chocolate cupcakes topped with the lightest and smoothest marshmallow frosting I've ever tasted! I loved it! Yes, I needed to make some sweet pink and purple flowers and as I mentioned earlier, some are dipped in chocolate - SOME.....
Here's another picture showing a little more detail of the flowers!
See that 1 empty spot? Here's the deal...so I made the marshmallow frosting with our BRAND NEW RED STAND MIXER and it came out amazing.
OMG - love, love, love the stand mixer! It's not a Kitchen Aid, but it serves the purpose for now! It was so odd for me to be able to let the egg whites whip while watching over the boiling sugar/water syrup and take the cupcakes out of the oven! It was like I had an assistant! Then - once again - I thought; "MAN, I forgot to take pictures of the process again!" I
promise next time, I will take pictures before DURING and after! Anyway, I piped the frosting onto 6 of the cupcakes, set them in the fridge to set up for about 10 minutes while the chocolate melted. Once the chocolate had cooled I gingerly and o-so-carefully dipped one of the cupcakes into the cooled chocolate to get the "hi hat" or dipped ice cream cone look. WELL - things seemed to be going well, when as I lifted the cupcake out of the chocolate - there was no mound of chocolate covered marshmallow on the top of my cupcake! It was still in the bowl of chocolate! It lay there beautifully covered in chocolate and still maintained it's triangular shape.
ARGHHH!! SO - for the next few, I decided to spoon a little chocolate onto the frosting and then use my off-set spatula to do the rest! THAT is why there's an empty spot! i am NOT giving up on the whole dipping thing. I think maybe next time I may need to thin out the chocolate a little!
All in all, I am quite pleased with the outcome! They tasted amazing (I tasted the
casualty that ended up in the bowl) and they look really pretty! PS - marshmallow frosting holds it's shape really well! Now to bring them to baby Hailey!
I imagine that someday I will either get way better at taking pictures OR I'll get a different camera that allows me just to snap and it will do the rest OR I'll have a pro take all my pictures! But for now, it's just me! So these are the yummies! Dark chocolate cupcakes topped with the lightest and smoothest marshmallow frosting I've ever tasted! I loved it! Yes, I needed to make some sweet pink and purple flowers and as I mentioned earlier, some are dipped in chocolate - SOME.....
Here's another picture showing a little more detail of the flowers!
See that 1 empty spot? Here's the deal...so I made the marshmallow frosting with our BRAND NEW RED STAND MIXER and it came out amazing. OMG - love, love, love the stand mixer! It's not a Kitchen Aid, but it serves the purpose for now! It was so odd for me to be able to let the egg whites whip while watching over the boiling sugar/water syrup and take the cupcakes out of the oven! It was like I had an assistant! Then - once again - I thought; "MAN, I forgot to take pictures of the process again!" I promise next time, I will take pictures before DURING and after! Anyway, I piped the frosting onto 6 of the cupcakes, set them in the fridge to set up for about 10 minutes while the chocolate melted. Once the chocolate had cooled I gingerly and o-so-carefully dipped one of the cupcakes into the cooled chocolate to get the "hi hat" or dipped ice cream cone look. WELL - things seemed to be going well, when as I lifted the cupcake out of the chocolate - there was no mound of chocolate covered marshmallow on the top of my cupcake! It was still in the bowl of chocolate! It lay there beautifully covered in chocolate and still maintained it's triangular shape. ARGHHH!! SO - for the next few, I decided to spoon a little chocolate onto the frosting and then use my off-set spatula to do the rest! THAT is why there's an empty spot! i am NOT giving up on the whole dipping thing. I think maybe next time I may need to thin out the chocolate a little!
All in all, I am quite pleased with the outcome! They tasted amazing (I tasted the casualty that ended up in the bowl) and they look really pretty! PS - marshmallow frosting holds it's shape really well! Now to bring them to baby Hailey!
