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Halloween cupcakes

1/11/2011

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I had 2 Halloween parties to go to this year. The first was my friend Laura's 30th do and the second was my in-laws halloween party.

Not wanting to disappoint i decided to make some cupcakes. I decided to go for vanilla cupcakes with a blood (aka jam) core.

I found these really cute cupcake cases and cutout decorations in Waitrose but nearly passed out when i got home and realised they had cost me £15.00! Luckily there was 2 dozen so enough for both parties.

For the first party i went for orange vanilla icing and black sparkly glitter. They looked really fun.

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For the second party i decided to add another colour to the mix and opted for a lurid luminous green picking up on the green edging stripe on the cupcake cases.

The green cupcakes were iced lemon flavoured and the orange ones were  iced vanilla flavour

The black glitter really popped off the green and added an extra dimension to the overall effect.

Next year i think i'll try some royal icing cobwebs - if i ever get round to learning how to do royal icing!!!

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lucy sampson
23/6/2012 02:23:04 am

Hi these look great I was just wondering how you made the icing because when I add food colouring to my butter icing the colours are never this bright even when I add alot of colouring.
Thank you

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Amy
25/6/2012 05:32:25 am

Hi Lucy

Thanks for your post. I get the intense colours by using food colouring paste rather than the thin liquids you buy in the supermarkets.

I like Sugarflair colours for buttercream icing. You dip a cocktail stick into the paste then slowly add to your buttercream to get the desired strength of colour.

Each put costs about £2.00 for a 25g pot and you can buy it from most good cake decorating shops and websites.

For fondant icing i like powdered pigments because if you add too much of the paste the fondant becomes too sticky and unworkable. The powder pigments stop this happening

I hope that helps!
Amy

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lucy sampson
25/6/2012 07:51:16 am

Thank you for your help i'll give it a try. x

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