No lunch for today but I will post about some cupcakes I made for a friends birthday. One of my friends that I work with is celebrating her birthday tomorrow and I was asked to make a cake. Well I have been seeing all of my friends on Facebook post cupcake pictures and I wanted to make some too. And I was trying to not have to make a trip to the store. So I knew I had a box of red velvet cake mix in the cabinet, some cool whip in the freezer and some candy melts left over from Christmas.
I mixed all the ingredients for the cake mix and poured them into twelve cupcake liners and took the leftover mix and poured it into a 9-in round pan. After they were cooked and cooled I took the Cool Whip and added some powered sugar and a unflavored geletin packets and whipped it up. Once it was firm enough I piped it onto the cupcakes. Then stuck those in the frig and started melting the candy melts. I put the gooey mess into a pastry bag and piped designs onto some wax paper and stuck that in the freezer. About 10 minutes later I pulled the candy melt designs out of the freezer and stuck them in the whipped topping. Then I sprinkled them with cocoa powder.
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| Very cute, don't you think? |
With the leftover round cake I cut it into circles. I was able to get five circles out of the 9-in cake. I took two of them and stacked them up and crumb coated the double stack and placed it in the freezer for a little bit. Then I pulled them out and put the final layer of whipped topping on. And of course I added a candy melt design and cocoa powder to the the top.
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| A baby cake! |
Then I placed them all on a cake carrier. And it actually looked like that when I arrived at work. No disasters of smashed cake. Yippee!
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| All together now |
And I also made a card for the birthday girl. I was going to match the card to the cake but I like this just as well. Happy Birthday LaRinda!
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