Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Butterfly Effect

For tomorrow's Wednesday Review, I am going to talk about one of my favorite baking books - Hello, Cupcake! I thought as a little preview I'd share the one cupcake I've actually made from the book: Butterflies!!



I made these for a friend's housewarming party. It was in the spring and I wanted something fun so I poured through Hello, Cupcake! until I found these.  The butterflies are made with melted down chocolate wafers. I traced a pattern on wax paper with the milk chocolate, and then filled it in with the orange-colored white chocolate, using a toothpick to make the swirls. Once the chocolate hardened, I peeled them off the wax paper, set them on the cupcake (using a mini chocolate chip under each wing to prop them up) and then piped on some more melted chocolate in the middle for the body. To finish it off, I attached the antennas and wala! I present to you - the Monarch Butterfly.  



3 comments:

  1. I really want to make fancy cupcakes :) Is that book related to the cupcake shop? Also, am confused by the wax paper process ... how to keep the melted chocolate in the right position til it hardens?

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  2. You will have to come over sometime to help me make some! As for the wax paper process - you just pipe melted chocolate on and it is thick enough that it doesn't run all over the paper - just stays in place until it hardens.

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  3. Sounds good to me! I have never piped ... only slathered onto my Oreo truffles with a half-spatula :)

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