Frostings

Right after princess left for school yesterday, I got down to working on my frostings. Did the lemon one first. It turned out much better than the previous time, not as runny, but I still need practice on piping them. So anyway, this is the best I could do with them.

Was so pleased with the success of the lemon frosting, I got complacent. By the time I started on 2nd frosting, it wasn't that early as I had to go to school before 12pm to deliver them. But guess what? The frosting was a flop! It said in recipe to continue whisking and to ignore it being runny as it will stiffen up if I continued whisking. So I did, for a whole half hour. Then I gave up. My wrist was breaking off me. Decided to throw out the lot and start on another. This 2nd time, I put in less butter thinking maybe it was too much the 1st time. The same thing happened. By then I was rather desperate as it was past 11am. Yikes!! Had to use my brains! How to salvage the situation? I remembered I had a pot of Nutella and it saved my day! Thank God.

This is the picture of the chocolate cupcakes before frosting.

And tada... here they are all frosted with Nutella. Do they look pretty? Hehe. An overindulgence in chocolate.

Since it is Teacher's Day, I would like to say a big 'Thank you' to Peony who inspired me to start this blog in the first place. I enjoy reading her blog and check on it every day to see what she's cooked or baked, and especially the food she lovingly prepares for her grandson, Ryan. From what I know, she used to be a teacher too, so Happy Teachers' Day, Peony. Thanks a bunch.

And as for Sam, I would like to say, yes, I am keen on starting something with the stuff I bake. However, need to do costings first. And also, will invest in a proper cake mixer. I only use my hands now or the handheld mixer (seldom). So time to pamper myself a little. :)

Happy Teachers' Day!

What have I been up to the past 2 days not blogging? Well, let's see... up to my eyeballs in dough. Haha. Have been baking cookies, cupcakes, and more cupcakes. Rushing them all out for Teachers' Day. Had to do cookies on Wednesday morning, after dragging myself off the pc, being engrossed in Marapets. Yes, it can be addictive that game. ;) Princess had swimming lessons that day so had to bake the cookies for coach, and remainder will be for her Cathechism teachers this Sunday. Finished baking cookies just before swim class. Phew! And continued with cupcakes in the evening. Was planning to just do the chocolate cupcakes but realized it was short of 2. I needed 16 so each teacher would get 2 cups. By then I was already tired so it was physically impossible to go out to get extra ingredients. What was I to do?? Then I remembered!! I still had 3 lemons sitting in the fridge. Hehe. I thought that'd be nice too, to balance out the richness of the chocolate. So I willed myself out of my comfortable rest place on the sofa and got down to business. By the time cupcakes were baked and cooled, it was 12am. Sigh. Time to sleep for an exciting day ahead tomorrow - frosting them. I don't have much experience with frosting but had 2 new recipes to try, so was rather excited. It could go both ways, either success or failure.