Pretty please with icing on top,

With an outburst of baking creativity, Felicia and I decided to spend an afternoon fiddling with coloured cupcake frosting (which we spent hours looking for inspiration on the net, talk about cupcake porn)

Popped by the nearby NTUC @ Dawson place to get the necessary ingredients ☺  

My favourite bit about baking is that you get to modify the recipe, like stuffing marmalade into pastries or in this case, we had strawberry jam fillings in the cupcakes which tasted really good with the vanilla. (which I just remembered that we forgot to add haha) Even the batter looked good enough to eat!

If you look really closely, we used triple cupcake holders for each because I don't like them too flimsy and they tend to get out of shape very easily. It gets a bit tricky if they come apart though.

Goodness bakin' in the oven

The frosting was the trickiest part; we slapped in tons of icing and egg white whilst beating for our lives (which was really quite fun) and seeing how the frosting took its consistency texture was really satisfying. It's also a tad scary on seeing how much sugar goes into those sweet treats from the confectionery, eek.

The piping bit was extremely entertaining because we tried beautifying the cupcakes with the various piping tips (some in vain) and it was a race against time because the frosting was slowly becoming runny (I blame the humid weather) Some of our cupcakes were successful, though some turned out a bit disastrous but really cute all the same.

Piping flowers didn't really work out

Playing around with the dyes

A dash of colour sprinkles was sufficient to transform them into drops of heaven (pardon the amateur piping though) Putting them in the fridge really helped to harden the frosting and they turned out really well, even though by the time I brought them to school for the gang to savour, they were half smooshed.
Had great fun talking to Feli too ☺

Failed attempt at creativity

Glad that the pictures turned out well, even though I was using my half-alive Canon Ixus digital camera ☺It's Friday but with Pre-camp greeting me at the start of the weekends, I'm feeling pretty disoriented. Nonetheless, the past week has so loving, with ice cream and rag work and baking and badminton and silly camwhoring and suppers and dinners (which has rendered me broke)

Broke, but happy.

P.S. Just received confirmation for my trip in Melbourne, everything has been booked and I'm bounded for Down Under in 8 days, very excited and hopefully promises of picturesque photographs ♥