Cupcakes with Elizabeth!

On Sunday, Elizabeth and I made cupcakes.  We made a basic vanilla cake batter with buttercream frosting. The batter was very simple. It called for eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, and a bit of milk.  It took about 30 minutes to cook.  It turned out evenly cooked and really yummy.  The buttercream frosting was simple too.  It had butter, sugar, milk, and vanilla in it.  This turned out well on our first attempt.  To top the cupcakes off, we made a fondant.  It was made from corn syrup, shortening, for which we substituted butter, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar.  We then frosted the cupcakes and mixed food coloring in with the fondant.  We set aside two lumps of fondant. One had red food coloring mixed in and the other had yellow.  We then made small spheres of red and yellow.  We put the red and yellow spheres on small white cylinders made from leftover uncolored fondant.  These turned out as small, stubby mushrooms.  After all the mushrooms were made we painted the the white frosting with green food color (I found the gel to work better than the liquid food color).  We used a silicone egg brush to paint the frosting.  The bristles made a grassy looking pattern.


The finished product!