Monday, October 12, 2009

MSCC | Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes


This month, the Martha Stewart Cupcake Club decided to bake the Pumpkin Patch cupcake recipe. My favorite thing about this recipe... it calls for Autumn spices!!! I of course sampled the batter before adding the pumpkin and I loved the flavor! The cupcakes were extremely moist and fluffy. The recipe makes 32... so I had Tyler take the majority of the cupcakes to school with him. Let's just say that the teachers at his school may be a little spoiled this year :)

I was torn on the decoration of these cupcakes... my girlfriend and I wanted to have a dark vintage themed Halloween dinner party, so I didn't want to decorate these cupcakes with anything Halloween related. Finally I decided to frost my cupcakes with my usual swirl of my cream cheese frosting and then I added royal icing decorations. I've seen this royal icing technique used multiple times on cooking shows, so I thought I would try it out myself. First, I had to decide what I wanted to trace. I could have gone online and found a pumpkin or two, but it was midnight when I did these so I went with what I had. I took my mini pumpkin cookie cutter and traced it with a ultra fine point sharpie on a piece of regular white printer paper.


Then I mixed up some royal icing and added orange food coloring gel. I put the royal icing in a small piping bag with a #2 tip. Next, I placed a piece of parchment paper over the piece of white printer paper. Then with the piping bag, I traced the lines of the pumpkin and added some definition lines in the middle.


I let the royal icing dry overnight because I don't decorate the cupcakes until the next morning right before Tyler left for work. I like when the frosting is freshly whipped and piped on the cupcake! Once the royal icing was dry, the pumpkins slid easily off of the parchment paper and I stuck a pumpkin in each cupcake.


You can try this technique with pretty much any pattern... you'll be seeing it again in a posting coming up. Until next time, happy baking!

~Danielle



16 comments:

  1. these look absolutely divine and i am so needing a pumpkin fix right now! :) good job danielle!

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  2. the pattern is such a nice idea. I've tried doing that with chocolate. I had piped congrats. That not only took forever, they didnt all set since I was in a hurry.

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  3. Using royal icing for the decoration was a really good idea! crafty!

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  4. wow that's really creative. Cupcakes look great!

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  5. What a great way to decorate! These are gorgeous!

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  6. I love the royal icing pumpkin decoration. Very classy. Glad you liked these. Thanks for baking along with me this month.

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  7. Cute toppers! I agree about the Fall spices, these cupcakes were so good! Thanks for baking along with me this month.

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  8. the royal icing pumpkins look amazing...what a great idea!

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  9. I love that royal icing trick. I'm going to have to try it sometime.

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  10. Awesome royal icing! I have yet to try that. Your cupcakes look great.

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  11. That's such a creative topper idea. I love it! I think I'll be trying that out in the near future! Beautiful cupcakes!

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  12. you're so creative! i love the little pumpkin topper! =)

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  13. Thank you for all the sweet comments!

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  14. Those pumpkin decorations are genius!! Thanks for the idea. I don't think I've ever seen this done but it looks so cute! Great job :)

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  15. Danielle, that is so awesome with the royal icing pumpkin topping! Love it!

    Thanks for baking along with us this month!

    You rock.

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  16. Hello, Pumpkin, meet Elegance! :-) Gorgeous cupcakes and garnishes!

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