Today was the last day of weekly cupcake school. Next week I am on vacation and then we all decided that since school started in August we would go to a monthly cupcake school in the evenings. I'm so happy! I have loved cupcake school and the camaraderie it has provided. It has provided lots of calories too, but I intend to bring those to school for others to eat. 8-)
Today our goal was red velvet high heeled shoe cupcakes with a cream cheese butter cream frosting. This is what they look like in the book:
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| High heeled shoe cupcakes from the Cupcakes, Cookies, and Pie Oh My! cookbook. |
Were they a lot of work?
You betcha!
Allyson and Pamela did a great job on the cream cheese butter cream frosting. It was delicious. The red velvet cupcakes were baked by Linda and were mighty tasty. Both recipes came from the Trophy cookbook. While the icing was being made, Linda and I were busy making the soles of the shoes from graham crackers.
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| Linda and I sawing into graham crackers. |
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| Sawing into graham crackers is a delicate operation. |
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| It is better to score the graham and then break it. |
We decided that it would be better to just use a Milano cookie that was already in the right shape. When we were all done, the frosting was ready to be put in the decorator bags. Since this was the first class for Allyson and Pamela, they needed to learn the basic cupcake swirl.
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| Putting icing into the bag. |
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| Stirring our teal icing. |
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| Making pink icing. |
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| Linda fills another icing bag. |
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| Pamela practices the basic cupcake swirl. |
After they got the basic swirl down, we needed to take the graham cracker soles and coat them with chocolate.
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| Allyson is coating her sole with chocolate! |
Then we decorated the tops of the cupcakes with sugar and other delights.
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| Decorating the tops of cupcakes. |
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| Decorated cupcakes. |
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| Here are the cupcakes after assembly. |
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| Close up of the cupcake shoe. |
Pamela and Allyson made an amazing vegetarian lunch for us after we finished with our cupcakes.
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| Caprese sandwiches and peach and ricotta sandwiches. |
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| Kale and quinoa salad with apples. |
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| Our final product. |
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| Our final product. |
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| Pamela and a high heeled shoe. |
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| Allyson and a high heeled shoe. |
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| Linda and a high heeled shoe. |
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| Our final product. |
They were tough, but I would do them again. We think we found some ways to do them better the second time around.
