Its Electrifying!

My bestfriends 21st birthday was this past weekend! A few other close friends and I treated her a lavish weekend that she would never forget...well, that she did forget most of...it was her 21st birthday after all...

We started her weekend off right, by getting the family out of the way! We had a massive surprise party waiting for her when she came home from work on Friday, where I broke out these bad-girl cupcakes; Strawberry with Vanilla Buttercream frosting, and some crazy toppers. And they're electric pink.

I bake and decorate cakes for a living, so I have a pretty steady hand when it comes to cake decorating.

But I LOVE BAKING, so hopefully I'll do more dessert posts in the future!

And since I had no picture on my last post, I took real pictures of these! Not shitty camera phone pictures!

Ingredients for cupcakes:

• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry flavored gelatin
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 4 eggs (room temperature)
• 2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup whole milk, room temperature
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup strawberry puree made from frozen sweetened strawberries

Directions for cupcakes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place ~24 cupcake flutes into pan.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and dry strawberry gelatin until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Combine the flour and baking powder; stir into the batter alternately with the milk. Blend in vanilla and strawberry puree. Divide the batter evenly between the flutes.
3. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a tooth pick can be stuck in the center of a cupcake and come out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool for at least 10 minutes, before taking out cupcakes to cool completely.

 

Ingredients for icing:

• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 to 2 tablespoons whipping cream

Directions for icing:

1. In a mixing bowl, mix together sugar and butter with a whisk until well blended. 
2. Add vanilla and cream and continue to whisk 1 minute more, adding more cream if needed for spreading consistency.

For a homemade icing bag, you can just use a plastic zip-lock freezer bag, or whatever sealable plastic sandwhich bag you have.

Put the icing the bag, I recomend a freezer bag because its hard to use the tiny sandwhich bags without refilling after every cupcake!

Once the icing is in, cut a little hole in the corner of the bag, and there ya have it!

I added gummy bears, rainbow and chocolate sprinkles, nonpareils, and whatever else I had in my cabinet!

Anyone have any suggestions they want me to make~?

This is me and my best friend, as zombies anyway!