After seeing a friend buying a box of beautiful, cute cupcakes, I fell in love and am now so keen to make my own. Furthermore after browsing hundreds of cupcakes' blogs and web pages, I am getting more and more crazy about cupcakes!
And so, last week my sister and I, in a haste, went on our first time ever experience on making our cupcakes. We were not prepared, as I just got home from Denver.
Therefore, assuming we have everything in the kitchen, we began our project only to find out we are out of granulated sugar. We were too lazy to run to the shop to restock it so we simply used some raw sugar instead.
We used the Lemon Citrus Cupcakes recipe from the book The Artful Cupcake by Marcianne Miller. The recipe requires the usage of lemon and orange zest and juice, which we also did not have. For that, we substituted all the citrus ingredient with some orange oil.
As for the frosting, we used the Classic Buttercream Frosting recipe from the same book. We had to make 2 batches of frosting because one was not enough. We used some ready rolled-fondant to decorate the cupcakes too.
The result : The cake looks alright from far but if you look at it closely, you can see the granules of the raw sugar everywhere on its surface. It taste just alright but if you eat too much, you can taste the bitterness of the orange oil. The second batch of buttercream frosting we made was too buttery in taste, probably because we tried to reduce the amount of confectioners' sugar. We didn't want to make it as sweet as the first batch. The first batch was way too sweet. And we had everything done according to the recipe. The rolled-fondant didn't taste so nice either. I think that's why Chockylit hardly use them in her recipe.
In the looks department however, I have to say that our cupcakes didn't look so bad. Most of the decorating tasks anyways, was done by Saty (my sister).
And so, last week my sister and I, in a haste, went on our first time ever experience on making our cupcakes. We were not prepared, as I just got home from Denver.
Therefore, assuming we have everything in the kitchen, we began our project only to find out we are out of granulated sugar. We were too lazy to run to the shop to restock it so we simply used some raw sugar instead.
We used the Lemon Citrus Cupcakes recipe from the book The Artful Cupcake by Marcianne Miller. The recipe requires the usage of lemon and orange zest and juice, which we also did not have. For that, we substituted all the citrus ingredient with some orange oil.
As for the frosting, we used the Classic Buttercream Frosting recipe from the same book. We had to make 2 batches of frosting because one was not enough. We used some ready rolled-fondant to decorate the cupcakes too.
The result : The cake looks alright from far but if you look at it closely, you can see the granules of the raw sugar everywhere on its surface. It taste just alright but if you eat too much, you can taste the bitterness of the orange oil. The second batch of buttercream frosting we made was too buttery in taste, probably because we tried to reduce the amount of confectioners' sugar. We didn't want to make it as sweet as the first batch. The first batch was way too sweet. And we had everything done according to the recipe. The rolled-fondant didn't taste so nice either. I think that's why Chockylit hardly use them in her recipe.
In the looks department however, I have to say that our cupcakes didn't look so bad. Most of the decorating tasks anyways, was done by Saty (my sister).
