Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes for Lily. She really felt special and enjoyed every one. I just have one more story from her birthday to tell you about... I have to document this... On Monday (her actual birthday) Lily wanted to bring cup cakes to school to share with her class. We also wanted to bake a cake to share with our friends in our condo. Cup cakes first.
Somewhere, I heard that you can put flat bottom ice cream cones in the oven! You can fill the cones with cake batter and bake the cones in the oven. The result is a cup cake that looks something like an ice cream cone. I thought that would be a great idea for the class room! A little less mess because the kids would eat everything and it would have a fun and different presentation.
I found a great cake recipe. I found the ice cream cones. I was ready to go! On Sunday, March 4th, I baked all of the cones. It took a while... My muffin tin only bakes 6 at a time and there are 22 students and 2 teachers, so I needed 24. Not to mention, Wyatt and Madeline want one! Each batch took 30 minutes to bake and I needed to to 5 batches. It took all afternoon. Some looked better than others, but overall, I would say they looked lumpy and maybe a little burned in places. Not too good. But, never mind, I can just use the icing and they will look fabulous!
Lily wanted pink icing and a strawberry on top! I decided to puree strawberries to make the icing. I don't know what I was thinking... I also thought I'd try (for the first time) butter cream frosting. So, here I go, pureed strawberries, (vegan) butter (not actually butter!) and icing sugar. Mix it up. Hmm. Pretty runny... must need more butter! More butter! Keep adding butter! hmmm.... still not right. Maybe I need to just keep mixing. Put in ALL of the sugar. Mix more. Hmmm. Well, it tastes good!
My frosting looked terrible. It was finally a little thicker, and it tasted good, but the butter all looked curdled. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I've been advised that butter cream is pretty difficult in the high humidity here. But, it was now late at night and it was the only frosting I had, so on the cup cakes it went! I topped it off with a cherry and I decided that it would have to do.
I borrowed a cup cake carrier and I loaded my ice cream cone cup cakes in and stuck them in the fridge over night. In the morning, we were off! This is where the next disaster took place... The ice cream cones were a bit top heavy. In the carrier on our way to school they all fell over and rolled around. When I got there, I had a pile of cones and frosting and strawberries. The cones started to get soggy because they were sitting in too wet frosting. UGH!
I was volunteering in Madeline's class that morning, so I didn't have time to just chuck them and run to the store to buy something else. I grabbed a pile of paper towels and wiped each one up. I apologized to the teacher and just let it be what it was. It's the thought and effort that counts right? At the end of the day, Lily was happy and many of the kids thanked me. I guess they don't really care. Or maybe they are just polite.
I baked a small cake for the condo kids. On each birthday, we all meet downstairs for cake at about 5 pm. We sing to the birthday child. It's a lovely community!
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