Funfetti! YUM!

So Allie's birthday is coming up and she's weird. Like SUPER weird. She doesn't like chocolate. Who doesn't like chocolate?! (Well, Allie... but oh well. You have to love besties even if they're weird.) So her favorite cake is funfetti and she's a cake mix loyalist and eats them without frosting and I'm a-okay with that because I, too love funfetti. So I found a recipe online to try (because I love real homemade goodies) before I started recording where they came from, but if you want the recipe, please let me know!

Onward and upward. I started with the recipe and realized that I added a whole stick of butter when I was supposed to only add 6 T. Oiy. I could tell with the batter because it does this weird separating thing where you can tell there's too much butter. Frosting does the same thing and with frosting you can add powdered sugar to make it all better. So I added 1T more flour and tasted and I needed sugar so I added 2T of sugar. Ugh. So annoying. It didn't taste like the mix like I had hoped. I think maybe more or better vanilla flavor? Maybe there's another flavor in there I'm not familiar with? It just wasn't the same. Anyways, the batter ended up looking pretty because anything looks pretty with sprinkles. So I baked them and they looked okay, but flat and spread out a bit too much, but I did fill them higher then I should. ONE of these days I will master the art of filling cupcake liners without over doing it. I'm thinking the butter made them so flat and lifeless. (but pretty!)

Next the fun began because who doesn't love to decorate a cupcake?! So I frosted with Buttercream/cream cheese frosting and it's pretty tasty. I'm getting good at frosting finally. The key is mixing for a while so it gets nice and fluffy. I frosted these bad boys with the angled spatula instead of my favorite, the piping bag. I think these would look lovely piped and sprinkled too, but I really wanted to try a decorating thing I saw online:


Cute, no? It's a flat-top frost with angled edges then you roll the edges in non-pareils poured on a plate (don't pour them too fast- they are some BOUNCY little buggers. I now need to re-sweep my kitchen floor).

I ended up almost popping the cupcake top off because these were so light and fluffy and the frosting was weighing the muffin top down so much that it started separating from the bottom. So it's cute, but do it with a denser cake. I only did two like this and frosted and sprinkled the rest. The end result is just cute. Perfect for a party, but not a good replacement for funfetti from the box.


Trust me I know. I slaved over a cute cupcake.


And I did right by that cupcake! And wrong by my hips, but let's ignore that tiny detail and the extra 2T of butter...

The end result was tasty, especially with the icing, but as with the strawberry cupcakes, the frosting steals the show.

Overall, they're fun and cute, but if you're a loyalist this is one recipe i would (and it pains me to say this) use a box mix for your funfetti cakes. *sigh*


Enjoy folks!