Caaaake……
Yesterday was my son’s 6th birthday. I told him he could have any kind of cake that he wanted and he chose chocolate and vanilla marble swirled cupcakes with chocolate and vanilla swirled frosting, and superhero cupcake picks.
Ta-Da!
Now, I have to say that this is slightly anticlimactic for Mommy, because this was the cake I made for my daughter’s birthday last summer.
Oh yes. Yes I did. I’ll do a post in a few days about how I did that. Honestly, it’s mostly arts and crafts rather than frosting, and the doll is just one that I pilfered from my daughter’s toybox. I just made sure that none of the glue, or the doll, actually touched any part of the cake.
Okay… So back to the cupcakes. This is what I used to make them.
We’ve got Betty Crocker Gluten Free Yellow Cake and Chocolate Cake, Pillsbury Easy Frost frosting in vanilla and chocolate (verified GF through Pillsbury), one of those flavor injectors from the cooking accessories aisle of Target, and a skewer.
I made a package of yellow cake and two packages of chocolate cake according to package directions. Then I lined a muffin pan with cupcake liners and filled them with chocolate cake batter. Yellow cake with chocolate marbling would definitely work better, but my son requested chocolate with yellow marbling.
To do the marbling, I filled the flavor injector with yellow cake batter and swirlied it on top.
Then I swirled a skewer through it to mess it up a little so it looks marbly.
After they’re baked, this is what they look like. The marbling in the middle of the cupcake didn’t really show up, but my son was just happy that it was marbled on the top.
Then all you have to do is frost them. My absolute favorite part of the Easy Frost frosting, other than the fact that it’s gluten free is that it doesn’t need refrigeration. After you’re done, the tip screws off so you can rinse it out and then it’s ready to go the next time. This works great for me because I keep cupcakes in the freezer for those days when there’s a birthday party at school. I used to keep extra frosting in the freezer, but this is much better.
This is my son with the leftover cupcakes after he came home from school. He was trying to be patient, but he really just wanted another cupcake. Looks like a success to me.
