In my new home we once in a while enjoy a drink on a Friday to celebrate the weekend. Often this is Cubra Libre, especially with my Bacardi Oakheart Rum.
Today I was in the mood of baking as well as in the weekend kind of mood, so I found a selection of recipes on cupcakes that I could make from my Cupcake book. This one caught my eye – so cute with the small cola bottle, dark chocolate and rum essence.
Of course I had to make it.
It’s my birthday.. And I honestly spend all the day in the kitchen preparing for my family dinner tomorrow.
But I do like the kitchen… I really love it here.
After a move, money’s kind of short, but I don’t want my guest to lack anything. Not even the icing on the cakes. I usually buy fondant, but found a easy recipy on Pinterest on how to melt Marshmallows.
I had to work a lot with the Fondant, and happened to put in too much flour.. So it’s a bit to the dry end. Yet, it was easy -and I have loads for next half years projects.
A close-up of the Cupcake Flowers, where I added a small green sugar pearl.
Along with one from the actual birthday celebration with small birthday candles in it. It really makes a huge difference with lights lit in them.
My sweet friend invited us to a Halloween party for grown ups. Still with costumes and all. I offered to bake/make cupcakes in some kind of Halloween theme.
Found some great inspiration online on Pinterest. And decided to go with the Spider cupcakes.
First off I baked a lot of chocolate cupcakes – full rich bitter chocolate, to avoid it becoming too sweet with the cream topping.
Then I started to spread out all of the Oreo minis – and with some white sugar glacing painted eyes on the heads of the spiders. The pupil was small dark chocolate pieces.
The legs was made of liquorice rolls that I unfolded and cut out.
By then the cakes had been done for hours – do yourself a favor and clear out the day for things like these. It’ll steal away your time
So I made the cream topping – Danish ‘Flødebolle’ topping… Oh, so good. Added some red and yellow colors to get it in the right Halloween theme.. Then decorated the cupcakes. You can see the final result here:
