Can you help me with recipes for wedding cupcakes?!
Thanks for your help.
Also if anyone knows the difference between sugar, icing sugar and confectioners sugar I would appreciate your insight, a lot of recipes call for confectioners sugar but I have yet to find it in a store by that name.
Answers:
Confectioner's Sugar is Powdered Sugar. It is usually kept right next to the granulated sugar in the supermarket. There's lots of good cake recipies out there, but if I may make a suggestion: because of the sheer volume, I'd recommend using box cake mixes and just frosting from scratch.
For example, for a really good vanilla cake, make the ingredients according to the package, but add in 1 scraped vanilla bean pod to the mix. For a deep dark chocolate, add about 1/2 cup of additional cocoa powder to your favorite chocolate cake mix (you'll also need to add an additional egg to the batter if you go that route).
This is my go-to frosting for just about every kind of cake.
Best Frosting EVAR!!!
1 cup milk
5 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon vanilla (or lemon, butter, nut, orange, etc) extract
(heat over medium-medium high until thickened, put in fridge to cool)
meanwhile, whip 1 cup (2 sticks) butter with 1 cup granulated (not powdered) sugar until the sugar is mostly dissolved. Add in flour mixture and whip on high for a moment or two. It should be light and fluffy like whipped cream.
If you wanted to make this into a chocolate frosting, you could add some ganache after incorporating the flour-milk mixture.
(ganache: 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, 1 cup good chocolate chips. Heat cream in microwave until hot but not boiling, pour over chocolate and let set for 2 minutes. Stir mixture until chocolate is completely melted. Let cool (either at room temp or in fridge) don't let it get too firm, just cool to the touch. Pour into frosting mix and whip until incorporated.
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Doesnt sound like you got much experience - you could make the sponge part of the cupcake quite easily but i would get someone to ice them for you if you want them to look fantastic.
Try this recipe:
Red velvet cake with homemade cream cheese icing:
http://myvoice.mygofer.com/blog/Easy-Val…
