Cake thirteen - A Flowerbed

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Cupcakes are the most versatile of cakes to be used for any occasions and design. Close your eyes think of what you like most and there you are.... with some ability you can have your cupcake the shape you like! That’s what my daughters made for me. 

Choose your cupcake recipe, I often choose lemon cupcakes (see recipe - cake five simply add some grated lemon peel) as decoration and/or frosting are already rather sweet..

150 g white fondant (see recipe in cake twelve)

1 quantity yellow glacé icing (see recipe in cake twelve- add some yellow food colouring)

1 quantity choco frosting

5 cupcakes

yellow food colouring

Choco frosting 

100 g dark chocolate

2 tablespoons milk

50 g butter

75 g icing sugar

Put the chocolate, milk and butter in a small saucepan and heat gently, stirring frequently until the chocolate and butter have melted and are evenly distributed.

Remove fron the heat and stir in the icing sugar until the frosting is smooth and shiny.

1) Anemone petals

Crumple a sheet of aluminum foil and place on a small baking sheet (the folds of the foil will enable the petals to set in curved shapes). For each anemone rollout one-fifth of the white fondant on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Cut out five disks using a 3,5 cm cookie cutter. Lift up one of the disks (lightly dust your fingers with icing sugsr before!) Press your thumb into the centre, mould the edges of the petal to look more realistic.Place on the cumpled alumium foil so the folds of the foil support the fondant petal. Repeat with the remaining 4 disks. Make four more sets of petals in the same way plus a few spares out in case of breakages. 

Beat yellow food colouring into a small ball of fondant. Make five balls, and flatten them into the shape of a corolla. Leave for several hour to harden.

2) Preparing the cupcakes

Spread the choco frosting generously over the cupcakes.

3) Finishing touches

Arrange five petals in an overlapping circle on each cupcake, leaving a small gap in the centre. Press the petals carefully down into the frosting, then pipe some yellow glacé icing in the middle of the flower. For the stamens, use some sugar decoration.

Happy Birthday writing

Use some yellow glacé icing to write Happy Birthday Mum or what you like.

also visit:
http://time-for-a-cake.blogspot.it/2012/10/cake-thirteen.html