Looking back, I am still so amazed at how this venture of mine started to slowly gain momentum. As I mentioned in an earlier post, without the support of my children's daycare I'm not sure this would have gotten to the point it did.
In addition to the parents at the daycare supporting my cupcakes, the teachers at the school started to support me as well! It started with some cupcakes for a baby shower they were having for 2 of the teachers at the school. When I look back at these cupcakes, I tend to shudder a little bit. I was just starting and really had no idea what I was doing! I had no idea that you have to use powdered or oil based food coloring when working with melted chocolate. I had no idea how to really make decorations for the top of cupcakes. I was pretty much making it up as I went along!
Here are the baby shower cupcakes that I made. Both of the teachers were going to have baby girls so I made sure to include some pink! Please be kind to these cupcakes! LOL!
You know those cupcakes you see with the thick, beautiful, mountain of creamy frosting that is swirled so perfectly that it looks like a pile of soft ice cream on top! WELL, that is what I attempted in the picture above! LOL! Obviously I was using the wrong tip on my frosting bag. I can't believe people told me that these cupcakes looked good, but t;hey did!
And here is the attempt I made at making these cupcakes look like baby shower cupcakes! I used melted chocolate to make what I thought were going to be baby rattles! I do believe my 3 year old son at the time told me they looked like lollipops! Amazing that I frequently use my children, who are now 4 and 2, as my litmus test on whether or not I did a good job on the decorations. If my 4 year old son knows what the decoration is, then I must have done a decent job! Well, these baby rattles were not my best, but it was at the beginning of my cupcake venture so I will cut myself some slack! And again, the frosting was delicious, but the way I piled it on..... not so pretty!
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