Today, for some weird reason, I didn't feel like doing any of these. But while driving home tonight, I decided in the spur of the moment to make red velvet cupcakes, something I've been wanting to do for a long time now. During high school, I used to consider baking as a hobby. But that has long since changed since my mom kept offering my services (without consulting me) to make cupcakes for kids' parties. By the end of that summer, baking became a chore and I hung up my apron and cupcake/muffin tins.
As I was walking through walmart looking for the ingredients, I came across the aisle with the Twinkies and stuff like that. I was so close to ditching my plan and just buying a box of Twinkies or Ho Hos. In the end, I compromised and bought pre-made red velvet cupcake mix and cream cheese icing. I know... I don't consider this "real" baking either but... baby steps.
The cake mix came with some icing but I bought extra because, hey, a little more never hurt ;)
I wasn't very consistent with the my batter pouring so my cupcakes were different heights.
I then attempted to pipe icing onto my cupcakes.
I found out I wasn't very good at piping icing :p So in the above picture, I put my best cupcake forward.
In the end, I decided to hide my icing failures with chocolate sprinkles.
Perhaps I should have watched this video before decorating the cupcakes:
Anyway, despite my shoddy decorating skills, a taste test of the cupcakes proved that they were still very yummy. Not a total fail after all. Perhaps next time, I'll try making them from scratch :)
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