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baking trials = total fails
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1. Sugar cookies with royal icing - they spread 5x larger than the cutout and flat as a piece of paper
2. Pink lemonade cupcakes - so tart, that we all took 1 bite and threw the rest out
3. Pink champagne cupcakes - cake was dry and the icing was so sweet it was inedible
Can't.win.lately!
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Re: baking trials = total fails
Ugh. I've had times in the kitchen like this.
Like, when I was prepping for Paige's party, I tried Annie's favorite go-to frosting recipe and, IMO, it's effing awful. I tried again, thinking I'd done something wrong. Nope, it's really awful. I'm glad I tried it instead of just counting on it being good!
You'll find something that works!! :-)
Mel - sadly, they were doctored box mixes
Your sister's cookies turned out great!! I'm going to try these again this weekend because I've had good luck in the past with the royal icing, I just can't seem to get the cookie part down!
Brenda - good to know on the buttercream because I was going to try that this weekend. Did you find a good recipe?
Nope, I never did find a recipe that I liked. I tried Annies, plus one I think I found on allrecipes.
I mean, you might like Annie's recipe - clearly she does! But it was just gross to me - tasted straight up like butter and powdered sugar - and not in a good way.
Here's the website where Annie took her recipe from, and it has three other frosting recipes on it... maybe one of those would be better!
With all the fondant work I had to do to make Paige's cake, and after not finding a homemade frosting I liked, I went for the cheap-and-easy route with frosting... Betty Crocker's whipped fluffy white frosting. It's my absolute favorite frosting and can actually pass as "homemade" if you stir it really well before spreading it. :-)
Ooh, I will check out those links. I know I have had a buttercream recipe in the past that I liked, I just need to figure out which one it was.
I brought the champagne cupcakes to work and told them I wanted honest feedback. General consensus so far is that the cake is pretty good, albeit maybe a little too dry. I think I overbeat it, so I may try again. The flavor of the cake part is pretty decent.
ETA - I just went back to try one since I really just had a small bite last night. They taste like anise. WTF. I threw the rest in the trash
Gah. I have no idea why this is frustrating me so much!!! I should just go to a bakery here and not even worry about making them myself. I think it will end up being more trouble than it is worth.
Sometimes baking too long or baking a too high of a temperature can dry out a cake (i've had this happen so many times with cake mixes). You could slightly increase the fat you are using (oil, butter, etc). however make sure you don't increase it too much, because for a cake to rise and bake properly, those need to equal out the dry ingredients.
I love baking so much. I am going to make cupcakes for my DS's bday in October. Carrot-pumpkin, Red Velvet, Boston Creme, and Dark Chocolate are the four flavors I think I am going to do...
Amazing Buttercream Icing Recipe
2lb bag of confectioner's sugar
1 stick of butter (room temperature)
1 stick of Crisco, not butter flavored, but regular (room temperature)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons vanilla (clear vanilla is best, you can find it with the cake decorator's stuff)
Mix salt in water and set aside. Whip Crisco and butter together in large mixing bowl for 4 minutes or more until totally smooth and creamy. Add sugar, salt water and vanilla. Beat until creamy. If it seems too dry, add water by the 1/2 teaspoon until you get the consistency you desire (I rarely have to add any water).
You can divide for coloring and freeze any leftover.
A stand mixer is best, but a hand mixer works just fine.
Thank you!! I'm making strawberry, vanilla & some-other-flavor-if-I-can-figure-it-out, so I'll need a lot of icing. I'll try this one this weekend.
ditto on Annie's buttercream... ick, ick, ick! I also have a butter cream recipe.... it's my aunts (she caters tons and tons of weddings and such) I think it's a bit sweet but everyone LOVES it...
2lb. bag of powdered sugar
1/2C water
1tsp real vanilla
1/2C crisco- buttered flavored
to make chocolate add 1/2c cocoa
mix in mixer.
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