Saturday, September 13, 2008

Cake Love

For my birthday my sister-in-law got me the cookbook "Cake Love". Every recipe looked so good, but I wasn't sure if I was talented enough to make anything from it. Today I pushed back my fear and decided to try. Have you ever made cupcakes from scratch?? It really isn't that hard!! And they taste SO much better then the boxed stuff!

Well, I didn't look at the icing recipe until AFTER I had put the cupcakes in the oven. Here are the ingredients:

5 egg whites
1 1/4 c Fine Granulated Sugar
4 Cubes Butter
1/4 Cold Water

When I read it I thought, hmm... Is "Fine Granulated sugar" also known as powdered sugar?? The answer is no! They have you whip the egg whites, and take the water and sugar and melt heat them on the stove. Then, when it has reached 245 degrees F you add it to the egg whites and add in the butter. It is by far the BEST icing I have ever tasted. Who knew that you could use granulated sugar? And in all seriousness, it wasn't that hard!!

Now then, I didn't let the sugar cool down enough before I added the butter so it doesn't have the right consistency that it should (give me a break it was my first try) and so it tastes wonderful, but doesn't look the greatest...

But I challenge anyone who needs a good cupcake recipe to try this ASAP!! I will never make a boxed cupcake again!

3 comments:

tracy said...

You can make some when you visit next time.

queenieweenie said...

4 CUBES butter!!! No wonder they taste so good, and I think they look divine.

Post the cupcake recipe too!

Ash and Christian said...

Walter ate 4 cubes of butter last night off the counter (including the paper wrappers).

Needless to say, dad cleaned up a huge pile of throw up and mom didn't make cookies today.

NASTY!