So today I took a leaf out of Kirsti’s book and decided to do a bit of baking. I’ve been helping out the lovely folks at my old office (for my sins) mostly as a way of catching up and having a good gossip. Ever since I got back, my ex-colleague Jordane has been bugging me to bake her cupcakes. Tomorrow I’m going in to deal with a massive mailout and taking these with me:
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| Hopefully yumptious marshmallow cupcakes |
From the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, they are ordinary vanilla sponge fairy cakes but you melt some marshmallows in a bowl over some hot water, pink ones of course, scoop out a bit of the cake fill it with the melted marshmallow and then ice with buttercream icing mixed with mini-marshmallows. Turns out that it’s easier said than done to get melted marshmallow to behave itself in any way, shape or form. I ended up covered in sticky pink mess along with every item of cutlery in the kitchen and there wasn’t much marshmallow inside the cakes at all!
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| Melted marshmallow |
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| Big sticky spidery marshmallow mess! |
The long and short of it is that I was planning on making these for Bride 1’s hen party but considering the mess they made, I may have to come up with another wee plan! Suggestions on a postcard please....
Yum! I hate it when recipes understate the difficulty involved. Or neglect to mention some fancy tool that does all the work for them.
ReplyDeleteI'd eat the cupcakes anyway :-)
You could try filling the pans a bit less and sticking a marshmallow in before you bake them? Would make things a wee bit less messy at least!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with Kat, I'd eat them anyway!!
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I thought about putting the marshmallows in before baking them, might give it a go next time. Took them into work and they went down a treat. I managed to get half of one before they were gobbled and it was delicious!
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