Saturday, February 2, 2013

Birthday lil'activity: Contest of the best decorated cupcake <3

Hi lil'Guys!


Anaïs, a friend of my kids, turned 9 last week and for her party she decided not to have a fancy cake so I told her we could do a contest of cupcake decoration, and she loved the idea... She had an art party, with decopatching, painting, iron shape beading etc... She is very sparkling and full of ideas kind of girl, so i had to spice up my idea of how to make my little cake special... And then I came up with rainbow cupcakes...

Here is the recipe I used to make the dough:

Vanilla Yogurt Cake Recipe

1 plain greek yogurt ( keep the pot as it will be our measuring tool)
3 pot of flour
2 pot of sugar
125g of soft butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 teaspoon of baking powder
3 eggs
Food coloring, any color that you fancy

Put all the ingredients in a mixer bowl and mix well for 5 (whole!!) minutes.
Then, split the dough into as much color you want iside your cupcakes.




Then, put a little food coloring in each bowl until the color is at your liking.




Arrange the papercases in the oven cupcake tray, then start to pour the first color dough in.




Then continue, adding the colored mixtures on top of each other...










Bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes, ...et voilà!!




For the frosting, you will need:

3 cups of icing sugar
1cup of soft butter
4 to 6 tablespoons of milk
Food colorings

And of course different kind of cake decorations.

Cream the butter and the sugar together, it takes a whole 5 minutes to mix, then add the milk and continue the mixing, the frosting is getting more fluffy and creamy, then separate it into 3 bowls, add the food coloring that you want in each of them and mix one more time.
Fill your piping bags and it is redy for the kids to start to play around with them!!

Lets the kids practice with the piping thing first, then let them express themself with the cake decorations... Have fun!!










See you soon!!
Miss Drey <3