The Final Product

 

Today we did our final presentation of our cupcakes. Before, we had 15 minutes to get everything set up and to put the frosting on the cupcakes. I must say, it was not a lot of time and it went by real fast. Throughout the rush of time, the display and the cupcakes tied together perfectly. In the end my team came in second place in the class. It seems like the judges were pleased with our secret ingredients, which can now be revealed:

•  Honey
• Greek Yogurt  

If anyone is interested in making Greek Yogurt Honey Cupcake with a vanilla buttercream frosting, the recipe/video will be posted soon! If there are any questions, please ask.                                                      

Final Preperation

Since Logan cannot make it tonight, Chloe and I are going to make yet another batch of cupcakes. After creating the final batch of cupcakes, we also have to make icing and our display table to mount them upon. We have magnificant ideas for our display table that also seems to tie in with our theme.

Making and Baking

Last night I was accompanied by my group members, Logan and Chloe, in her kitchen preparing to bake the cupcakes. I was slightly late making it to Chloe's house, therefore she and Logan mixed the first batch of batter while I was on my way. When I arrived, I started mixing the pink batter into the golden, then Logan swirled the pink around, so our finalized cupcakes woulld have pink swirls throughout them. We repeated our first process a second time, to create our second batch and waited on the first batch to end its baking process. After removing the first from the oven, we baked our second batch. After our second batch was finished, we pulled them from the oven. My group members and I were ecstatic about our freshly baked cupcakes!

PINKY promise to have hope.

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Common & Helpful

Cupcake Tips

• When putting the batter into the cupcake holders, the best thing to use is a ice-cream scooper. This way all of the cupcakes will be the same size.

• When putting all of the ingredients together, mix together the dry ingredients in one bowl, the wet in another bowl and cream the butter and sugar together. Once the butter and sugar forms into a cream, mix in the dry ingredients by sections, slowly. Once it is all mixed add the wet ingredients slowly.

• How to tell the cupcakes are done?: Take a toothpick and stick it into the center of a cupcake or two. If the toothpick comes out clean when you pull it out, it is done. If the toothpick comes out with batter on it, it is not done.

Icing Tips

• If wanting to make a pretty design on your cupcakes, make sure you use the correct decorating utensil.

• To make a easy design, use a spatchula!

Display Information

• The final display is a major thing when it comes to cupcakes, make sure you take your time and have a steady hand.

• Stick with the theme you plan on doing, sometimes simple is the way to go.

Tuesday: October 9, 2012

With Friday's due date looming over our heads, my group's project is finally coming to a close. All of the supplies are purchased, and we're baking them all tomorrow. As far as I'm aware, the icing will be made on Friday before we present.

My worries lie with the display. The idea we had in mind is more complicated than I'd anticipated, and was scrapped. We plan to spend today brainstorming more simple ideas, but I fear we won't have enough time due to our 'interview', another project for this class. We're really going to have to come up with something quick if we're going to get any kind of a decent grade.

  Enjoy your day cupcake bakers! <3

Helpful Sources

Today I spent most of my time doing some research about cupcakes on YouTube. I mostly looked up how to decorate a cupcake and what the best designs are.

Any pastry baker that is interested in learning new ideas, visit YouTube and you wont be disappointed.

Icing

I am very ecsatic about baking cupcakes with my teamates. My teamates and I are very hopefull that our icing will corospond extremely well with our cupcakes. Our icing shall be pink to support Breast Caner Awareness, and all breast cancer patients. Below I have posted the link to view our icing recipe.


http://www.simplyscratch.com/2010/12/simple-vanilla-frosting.html

Then scroll to the very bottom for directions!

 Our theme for the cupcakes we are making is for Breast Cancer. We plan on going all out on PINK! We have an idea on what we are going to do. If there are any ideas or suggestions out there, please make them and comment. We will take in anything!

How to Preserve Cupcakes

We plan on baking the final cupcakes on Wednesday, October 10. What we are going to do to keep them fresh is, cover them with foil or plastic wrap and store them in the refrigerator. This should keep the cupcakes fresh, as they would be getting out of the oven. The final product is due the 12th, Friday. We are planning to icing the cupcakes and setting the display up on that same day.

If anyone has any other ideas, please comment.

Wish us luck!

Tuesday: October 2, 2012

For our Digital Communications class, Chloe, Whitney, and I have to make fifteen cupcakes to present. Instead of doing all the math for making fifteen, we're going to make a whole two dozen cupcakes! We blog each day to show our process, and we even get to make a display for them!

The cupcakes are due next Friday and honestly, we haven't gotten as far as I would have liked. The cupcakes are planned, but we haven't made any plans for the display yet. We're hoping to make the cupcakes next Wednesday, and hope they don't dry out before the presentation.

Today we're going to try to plan out the display and see what we can come up with. I think some of the other groups already have ideas in mind, so I hope we aren't too far behind. I really hope it turns out well.

As for ingredients, we're deciding who needs to buy what in preparation. This recipe isn't very expensive, which will make it popular for anyone reading this (I hope). I'll list the ingredients when we start baking them next week!