D loves cupcakes and I am wanting to improve my piping and decorating skills, so we decided to make some cupcakes together. I made the actual cakes and then D did most of the decorating, even had a pretty good attempt at piping the frosting on top! I only managed to do a couple of the large pink ones before he was eager to take the piping bag off me! Then he went to town a bit with the silver cachous and sprinkles. We thought they looked very pretty by the time they were finished.
I am pleased that I have been able to source a supplier of natural food colours again. I really don't like using artificial food colours and would rather use plain buttercream icing/frosting. In the past I have used berry juice (like blueberry or blackberry) to make a pink/purple colour, but that is a little extra work and can add a little too much liquid to the icing/frosting especially if wanting a darker colour. I used to buy natural food colour from the supermarket but they don't seem to stock it anymore which is a shame. So if you live in NZ and you're wanting natural food colour, I suggest you check out the Naturally Cakes website.
The sprinkles are also natural colours, again though, I'm not sure my supermarket still stocks these so when they run out I will try the ones from Naturally Cakes.
Do you make cupcakes? What is your favourite way to decorate them?
Note: by the way I am not associated in any way with Naturally Cakes, just thought I would share this info about natural colours in case anyone is interested :-)
10 comments:
How cool are those? What a fun thing to do!!!
It was a lot of fun and they look very colourful I think :-)
They look great! Who's going to eat them all? Or maybe there are none left already.....
D's teacher always gets a small bagful, and we usually give some to a few other people! But there are still quite a few left in the fridge. Luckily they keep for a few days :-)
I'd like to eat the cupcakes... xi xi...
:-) They are tasty! Not so good for the figure though!
We just found natural food dyes at a new market that opened in town earlier this year. It was exciting. I just have "boring" colored frosting most of the time, but now we can mix it up! Your cakes are beautiful and what a fun time with your son.
Hi BLD in MT
That's great news you have found somewhere close by that supplies the natural colours :-) Your frosting won't be "boring" anymore!
Thanks for the link, I had no idea these were available and I much prefer the natural to the unnatural! Plus their 100s and 1000s are really pretty! Your cupcakes look great too, yum...
Hi Ruth
Glad you found it useful. Happy Baking!
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