After watching Martha Stewart this week, I decided to get into the spirit and bake some cupcakes on Saturday. I invited some friends over to eat them, so I was stuck--I really had to make them. I chose to make the Meyer Lemon Raspberry cupcake that was featured from the Vanilla Bakeshop in Santa Monica. The first modification that I had to make is that when I went to the store to buy vanilla bean, I found that it was $16 for a bottle that contained 2 vanilla beans. So.... no, that didn't happen. I like my friends, but not that much. The second modification is that I decided not to buy the sanding sugar to dip the frosting in, or the raspberry to put on top, because I figured that was more for decoration than taste. The third modification happened because I started to make the lemon curd to put in as filling and it was so complicated and I was already running late... so I didn't make that either.
So, in the end... I made vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting and not as vanilla as it would be if I had used vanilla bean. Whatever. Here's a photo.
6 comments:
you did a great job with the cupcakes! they were and still are great!
I like the plate too! :)
They look great and I am looking forward to eating one. Thanks Heidi
The cup cakes look yummy!
You can get great lemon curd at Trader Joe's
that's more cup cakes than I have made....
Your blogs about CupCakes are really making me crave cupcakes. So I made mini cakes--I like just abit more cake than a cupcake has to offer. I made red vanilla stars with vanilla icing! I will send photo!
If you were here I would buy you the vanilla bean--cuz I like you that much!!!!!
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