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The Wedding Cupcakes!
Sunday, November 8th, 2009So we’re back from the honeymoon, and it’s back to business! Well, we’re also now in the process of moving into our condo, so I don’t promise that I’ll be posting a lot yet. But I digress..
So, the wedding cupcakes. I’m going to tell you the whole process.
Steps #1 + 2 – Batter & Icing + Freezing
Thanksgiving weekend was the week before the wedding so I used that extra time to eat turkey. And make the batter and icing for the wedding cupcakes to be frozen. The plan was that I was going to make it all on the Saturday, but we got stuck in ridiculous traffic when we went for what was supposed to be a short trip to a mall. So I ended up doing it in a few goes over the next couple of days (in between going to two Thanksgiving dinners). I made batter for 6 dozen vegan vanilla cupcakes, and two batches of vegan fluffy vanilla buttercream (my recipe makes A LOT – I even had some left over!). Then I put it all into some airtight containers and popped them into the freezer for the week.
Step #3 – Baking
On the Thursday morning before our wedding, I took all of the batter & icing containers out of the freezer and put them in the fridge to start thawing out. We had our rehearsal dinner that night, and then after we got home I got to baking, then let the cupcakes cool overnight.
Step #4 – Icing
My boss thankfully let me take the day before the wedding off work. So that morning I got to icing! I bought some plastic cupcake containers (the kind you get at the grocery store etc) from McCall’s so that we’d be able to easily transport all 6 doz cupcakes to the venue in one shot.
Finished Product!
Here they are at the wedding (this photo is by Brooks Reynolds, who is amazing and I would highly recommend to anyone.)
And remember how our friend Lisa was making our cake topper? Look how amazing it is!
(First photo by Roman Kliotzkin, Lisa’s boyfriend, second by Brooks Reynolds)
Tags: cupcakes, vegan, wedding
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Lil Lions – How cute is this?!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Look how cute these lion cupcakes are! I’m going to have to try something like this soon!!!
Don’t you just love those little faces? Apparently the person that made these doesn’t have a business for them – she just does it for her friends. She should change that!!
Tags: animals, cupcakes, cute
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Fall Cupcakes
Friday, October 9th, 2009Two years ago a friend hosted a bake-a-thon at her house – a bunch of friends get together and bake all day, based on a theme. This was the first one I participated in, and the theme was cupcakes. It was this that started my love for making cupcakes!
Because it was in the fall, I decided I wanted to make pumpkin cupcakes. I searched the net and found a recipe for pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing, which ended up being delicious (unfortunately I didn’t save the link so I can’t link it here). One day (before the bake-a-thon), I saw a magazine with a picture of cupcakes decorated to look like owls. I thought that it looked like a super cute but easy idea, so I decided that this is what I would do with my pumpkin cupcakes!
I used shaved almonds for feathers, Werther’s Originals with icing & chocolate chips for eyes, and cashews for beaks.
Here’s how they turned out:
They didn’t look exactly like in the picture on the magazine. I blame that on not being able to find butterscotch lifesavers and having to use Werther’s Originals instead – I think having the eyes round would have looked better. I should try these again some day (I may try the vegan chocolate chip pumpkin recipe I have.. but maybe not) and see if they look any better now (hopefully I can find the lifesavers this time!)
Tags: animals, cupcakes, fall
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Surprise Cupcake Project #1 (and 1.5)
Saturday, September 26th, 2009So the first surprise project I had to work on (as per my first post) was for my maid of honour’s 30th birthday. I made her cupcakes, naturally! I had frozen some batter and icing a while ago, to make sure freezing would work for the wedding – I used a friend’s 30th birthday to test that out. I’m nice like that. It turned out that it was also my co-worker’s last day on the same day as I was giving my friend her birthday cupcakes.. enter project 1.5. So half the dozen went to her, and the other half went to the co-worker (we have… had… six people in our group.. worked out perfectly except the part where his fiancée was there so I didn’t get to try one before giving them as a 30th birthday gift later that night to make sure they didn’t taste like freezer burn or garbage).
So on top of testing to see how freezing the batter would work, I also decided I should try something new with the icing – let’s be honest, if I’m not trying new things, I’m just making plain vegan vanilla cupcakes. And as awesome as that is, why not try to expand horizons, right? I try to make sure that each batch I make (without being ordered) that I try a new style or a new flavour. Or both. So I decided I’d try multi-coloured piped icing. I went with pink & yellow since that’s an awesome colour combo, and if it didn’t work out, orange icing’s fine by me! Here’s the result:
Turns out I got to eat one of the ones I gave to my maid of honour (I’m so generous.. giving people gifts that I can eat), and thankfully they tasted the same way as “fresh”.
Tags: cupcakes
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Here we go!
Monday, September 14th, 2009Welcome to my first blog post on Little Bird Bakery! I’m going to use this blog to tell you about my adventures in baking, as well as any other baking related things I may come across on the internet. And anything else that may strike my fancy!
Since I’m getting ready for my wedding, I haven’t been able to bake anything in the past little while (due to time and waistline constraints). My last venture was 7 dozen cupcakes for our buck & doe mid-August – and I didn’t even get any pictures of them because I ran out of time! Thankfully my fiancé Matt got one shot of them for me..
That’s a lot of cupcakes! I have a few smaller projects coming up for some friends – no details yet since they’re going to (hopefully) be surprises!
My next big project is going to be making the cupcakes for our wedding. People think I’m crazy, but I have a plan: make the batter & icing the Monday before (which just happens to be Thanksgiving Monday – I’m lucky to have an extra day off right before the wedding!), freeze those, then bake Thursday night, decorate Friday morning, and they’ll be ready to go for Saturday! Sure, they won’t be day-of fresh, but they’re vegan, so they keep pretty well. I think splitting it up into three steps will make for a less stressful time than people are imagining.. hopefully!
Here’s a peek at what they’re going to look like. The colours will be brighter – at the time that I made the trial batch, I only had liquid food colouring so I couldn’t add too much or the icing would have got runny. Now I have gel colours so that’s not a concern. I’ll have purple and green ones.
Our friend Lisa is making the cake topper for us. She wants to make the top tier of this:
I think she’s crazy for doing it for us, but we’re super excited about it, and really touched that she offered!
Well that’s it for now – I’ll post about my upcoming small projects once they’re done and delivered!
Tags: cake, cupcakes, wedding
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