I generally jump at any opportunity to bake, my work throwing a baby showe lunch for a co-worker of mine wasnt any different. It was requested of me to make cupcakes for this luncheon. I couldnt just leave it at that, I needed to overachieve in order to make it up to myself that I havent been baking as much as I have wanted to lately. My goal was to overachieve and I did just that. I decided that I wanted to make not one, but two different types of cupcakes. I also decided that I wanted to try and make one of those adorable baby in a bassenette, made out of watermelon and cantelope, that I keep seeing all of the internet. And last but not least, I decided to make some apple cinnamon muffins to bring in for breakfast. Yeah I realize that all of this didnt need to be made and brought to work. I also realize that I like to do it and that being an overachiever is okay with me.
The first thing that I made was apple cinnamon muffins for everyone's breakfast. They were made with some of my homemade applesauce and the final product came out quite good.
I decided that I wanted to make two different kind of chocolate cupcakes. The first is a chocolate butter cake recipe with a chocolate buttercream frosting, topped with homemade carmel and sea salt, and then finished with a chocolate covered expresso bean. The second is a chocolate cupcake made with vegetable oil instead of butter, topped with a Peanut Butter and Reese's Pieces buttercream frosting, finished with a few Reese's Pieces candies. Since my co-workers is going to be having a baby girl, I wanted to incorporate the color pink in these cupcakes somehow. I decided on making a yellow cake and added food coloring to make it a pink color. I then took this now pink-yellow cake and decided to put it in the center of the chocalte cupcakes for a nice pink surprise. I just added a small amount of the chocolate mix to each wrapper, then added a small amount of the pink onto the center of those, then covered the rest with some more chocolate mix.
It was so warm in my kitchen, as my home is like most in the Casper area and do ot have A/C installed, that the buttercream frosting wanted to melt faster than I could top them with the additional ingredients. They all still tastes wonderful, just not as appealing looking as I may have liked.
One thing that I have seen online is those cute little babies made out of watermelon, cantelope, and misc fruit. I decided that I had to make this as well, as I could not resist. I had never made one before, so I made sure to buy two watermelons just in case I screwed one up. It took a bit longer than I expected to hollow out the watermelon and ended up with an extremely tired arm.
Once that was done though, it was smooth sailing form there. When I had purchased my cantelope, I swear I stood there at the grocery store staring and sizing up every single one trying to find the one that would end up making the best baby face. I eventually decided on two different ones and figured that if one didnt work out, then I would have a back-up. I basically just cut the cantelope in half length wise and then skinned it with a pairing knife. All that was left to do was to take a melon ball cutter (not sure if that is the tehnical name for them) and cut out two eyes and a mouth. I then used toothpicks to attach two grapes to make the eyeballs and then used another toothpick to hold the binky in the mouth as it kept wanting to fall right back out. In order to get the baby face to stay up like I wanted, I ended up using bamboo skewers, snapped in half, to heold the head in place. Then it was as easy as filling the inside with mixed fruit.
It tooka lot of time and hard work, but it was completely worth it to see how excited everyone was about the treats and seeing their faces happy with the results.
I decided that I wanted to make two different kind of chocolate cupcakes. The first is a chocolate butter cake recipe with a chocolate buttercream frosting, topped with homemade carmel and sea salt, and then finished with a chocolate covered expresso bean. The second is a chocolate cupcake made with vegetable oil instead of butter, topped with a Peanut Butter and Reese's Pieces buttercream frosting, finished with a few Reese's Pieces candies. Since my co-workers is going to be having a baby girl, I wanted to incorporate the color pink in these cupcakes somehow. I decided on making a yellow cake and added food coloring to make it a pink color. I then took this now pink-yellow cake and decided to put it in the center of the chocalte cupcakes for a nice pink surprise. I just added a small amount of the chocolate mix to each wrapper, then added a small amount of the pink onto the center of those, then covered the rest with some more chocolate mix.
It was so warm in my kitchen, as my home is like most in the Casper area and do ot have A/C installed, that the buttercream frosting wanted to melt faster than I could top them with the additional ingredients. They all still tastes wonderful, just not as appealing looking as I may have liked.
One thing that I have seen online is those cute little babies made out of watermelon, cantelope, and misc fruit. I decided that I had to make this as well, as I could not resist. I had never made one before, so I made sure to buy two watermelons just in case I screwed one up. It took a bit longer than I expected to hollow out the watermelon and ended up with an extremely tired arm.
Once that was done though, it was smooth sailing form there. When I had purchased my cantelope, I swear I stood there at the grocery store staring and sizing up every single one trying to find the one that would end up making the best baby face. I eventually decided on two different ones and figured that if one didnt work out, then I would have a back-up. I basically just cut the cantelope in half length wise and then skinned it with a pairing knife. All that was left to do was to take a melon ball cutter (not sure if that is the tehnical name for them) and cut out two eyes and a mouth. I then used toothpicks to attach two grapes to make the eyeballs and then used another toothpick to hold the binky in the mouth as it kept wanting to fall right back out. In order to get the baby face to stay up like I wanted, I ended up using bamboo skewers, snapped in half, to heold the head in place. Then it was as easy as filling the inside with mixed fruit.
It tooka lot of time and hard work, but it was completely worth it to see how excited everyone was about the treats and seeing their faces happy with the results.
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