Cupcake not icecream cone

Hi dear readers, I know in my previous post I said I would be trying out a chocolate walnut cake but I did something different.

I did cupcake cones!! What inspired me? Well I happened to watch this episode of ‘cupcake girls‘ on one of my favourite TV channels TLC and one of their stores needed a boost in their sales! So that’s when the cupcake cones were sold!

Okay here’s a few shots I took. Decided to go with 2 colours, pink and cream for my buttercream. Pink to represent my support for breast cancer awareness!! I was reminded of it this month as I saw this lady dressed in hot pink from head to toe!! Not kidding! Anyway, yup so I did a trial of my first batch of cupcake cones! Take a look at these!

In support of breast cancer month!

Just practicing my piping skills

Halved cupcake cone

I was afraid the cones would burn in the oven but they didn’t! (shouldn’t burn because it didn’t burn when cupcake girls were testing too) Taste wise, I think it tasted a little too sweet? Maybe because of the buttercream? I always try not to overload with the sugar but I can’t reduce it as much too, considering the proportions to other essential ingredients. I think the texture of my cupcake was light, not crumbly(yay). My family thought it would be better to have it without the cone. But that would defeat the purpose right?

Maybe because my cone turned kinda soft(probably left it out in the open too long). Anyway, I had fun trying to ‘invent’/create my own cupcakes like filling them with whatever came to my mind.. I filled some with jam, melted choc. You see the halved cupcake cone above?

That had some melted choc and I stuck a biscuit stick which I coated with more choc and rainbow sprinkles for colour! Just playing around=messy kitchen indeed!! I obviously had to clean up which I dread..we all dread that. I gotta get used to it soon, all this cleaning up and mess because I’ll be facing the kitchen almost everyday starting from end of this month.

Why you may ask?! Becauseeeeeeeee I GOT INTO ‘AT-SUNRICE GLOBAL CHEF ACADEMY’ OCT 2013 INTAKE!!! Ah, yes no more waiting/ what ifs/ and false hopes whatsoever. Now it is confirmed! I’m definitely elated, excited yet nervous as to what’s coming up for me. One thing for sure, I most probably wouldn’t be as this free to update but but but! I will try to find the time to update you readers about my new experiences and stories. I know I’ll have loads to share. You can also hop over to my personal blog(found under ‘about’ link) for more updates. This blog is more for my baking creations and experiements and reflections/thoughts about them.

With that said, halloween is around the corner too!! I have something in mind already, more experimenting and play! These cones were baked beginning of this month so this is quite a delayed post. I baked the chocolate chip orange cake today and hmmm lets just say, it didn’t go that well? Careless me!! Nonetheless, it’s still a cake and edible. So stay tuned dear readers/followers to find out what went wrong!!

Thanks for your time!

Love, D