Cupcake Mosaic

Our assignment was to create a mini cupcake mosaic! We worked with mini cupcakes of about 3 cm in width. We worked in pairs, I worked with my twin sister (she will also be posting this on her blog).
We had to design our "own" cupcake design, we were allowed to use a well know art work or make something unique. 

Finished Product

The recipe:

We used the yellow cupcake recipe for our cupcakes, which can be found here.
For our icing, we used the classic buttercream icing, which can be found here. 


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Since Faith was being really lazy, very indecisive and not really helping at all! I had to  design our cupcake mosaic but she had to agree with it before we used it.

So since right now I am like obsessed with One Direction (linked in case you don't know about One Direction), not like my friends who practically screams about them every second, I'm more like a closet fan and only fangirl in private.

My other plans in case Faith didn't like my One Direction flag was a turtle, a owl or the UK (same as the Britian) flag.

This is design is in reference to One Direction, if you know them, you know that Niall is from Ireland and Zayn, Louis, Liam and Harry are from Britian so the "flag" is half the Ireland flag for Niall and Britian flag for the others. 

A lot of people didn't understand this mosaic when I showed it to them but lucky I had some fellow Directioners who understand. 

Plain before icing

Faith did the triangles...they look kind of weird

Cupcakes!

We made yellow cupcakes with classic buttercream icing for one of our classes! I found the icing a little too sweet for me but a lot of people really likes it. This post would be about the Yellow Cupcakes and I would post another on for the Classic Buttercream Icing.

Finished Product

The recipe (Yellow Cupcakes):

Ingredients:  

•  375 mL cake flour shifted
•  5 mL baking powder
•  1 mL salt
• 220 mL granulated sugar
• 85 mL margarine
• 1 egg
• 5 mL vanilla extract 
• 150 mL milk

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F or 180°C.
2. Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
4. Cream sugar and butter together until light.
5. Add the egg and vanilla to creamed mixture and beat until thoroughly mixed. 
6. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Continue beating for one minute but  be careful not to over mix!
7. Scoop into the muffin tins. Bake for 18 - 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean
8. Cool for 10 minutes in the muffin tins on the rack then remove and cool completely before decorating.
9. You could freeze the cupcakes if you don't want to decorate them on the same day you bake them.

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