Well not quite.A few weeks ago, I made Cupcakes for my Friend's 21st Birthday, which in themselves were delicious, I'm sure... but this page wasn't called 'Cupcakes and Disasters' for nothing and it would seem that fate thought it was high time, that the disaster part be fulfilled.
Oh dear... Life certainly does pick its moments.
So before I start, I want to show you what the cupcakes looked like, because they really were
very pretty!
As was the lovely pink box I packed them in...
So before I get to the disaster, I'd firstly like to bullet point a few things that I learnt whilst making these cakes...
As we all know, you can do something perfectly a hundred times or more, but when it comes to the crunch, everything falls to pieces - this is what happened and I can only think that it was the pressure!
So what I learnt...
1. Who knew baking with butter was so difficult? Certainly not me!Having never baked with actual butter before, I was foolish enough to think that it would be as easy as using margarine. As it turns out, unless the butter is massively soft, it takes ages to combine into the mixture. As proof to this theory, I ended up with little buttery lumps dotted throughout my mixture, which took ages to mix in. (Also butter is extremely difficult to use to make butter cream, go figure!)
2. Don't think that Red and Pink food colouring are the same - They really aren't!
After getting over the butter hurdles I decided to make the icing pink, because after all 'pink's just light red' isn't it?
No, apparently in the world of food colouring, it's not - it's orange
:(
3. Check and double check your ingredients and allow for mistakesI didn't and had to rush out to the shop mid morning, for extra icing sugar, so be warned!
So the
Disaster...
Well to cut a not-so-long story short: After giving the cakes to my friend, I proceeded to destroy them all one at a time by placing them upside down on a bench. Devastation was not the word, Ahh.
LESSON OF THE DAY: Don't tip cakes upside down, they don't like it!
