Showing posts with label cupcakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cupcakes. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Star Cupcakes

These are my latest shaped cupcakes--stars! Five marbles placed strategically between the lining and the pan formed five-pointed stars. I posted instructions on making heart-shaped cupcakes using standard pans on Instructables and this uses the same concept.

Technically, these are brownies but I like to bake brownies in cupcake papers. It makes it a simpler matter to create serving-sized brownies. I make boxes mixes and add an extra egg, as per the cake-like brownie instructions. They bake very nicely and peel away from the paper well.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Shaped Cupcakes From Standard Pans



After making my heart shaped cupcakes using standard pans, I was given the idea to use more marbles to achieve other shapes.

So I made shamrocks and mushrooms. Shamrocks take four marbles (with two spaced closer together for the stem) while mushrooms take two marbles which form the stem.

My daughter thought that the mushrooms should become "Mario Mushrooms" so I decorated them accordingly.