When a friend asked me to make cupcakes for her beautiful step-daughter, Laurel, I was inspired by a forum friend, Emily, and by Annie of Annie's Eats to try butterfly cupcakes as part of the order. Annie has an excellent step-by-step, and although my efforts did not match either Emily's or Annie's, I was pleasantly surprised by the results.
The flavors requested were filled strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla. For the chocolate I made Chocolate Bliss cupcakes with Sour Cream Fudge Buttercream and vanilla mascarpone filling.
Some of the chocolate cupcakes were topped with a molded pink candy rose.
The Vanilla Bean Cream cupcakes were made using my favorite Magnolia Bakery recipe, filled with vanilla mascarpone filling, and topped with Vanilla Bean Buttercream.
Strawberry Bliss cupcakes (Candace Nelson's recipe) were filled with Strawberry Cream filling and topped with Fresh Strawberry Buttercream.
A few of the strawberry cupcakes were adorned with butterflies.
Happy Birthday, Laurel!
20 comments:
Those look and sounds SO good- I love the butterflies! And I like the sound of your fillings, especially using mascarpone. You've very talented. :)
Thanks Dishy!
Oh my goodness. Those are so beautiful! I am trying to get my jaw up from off the floor....
Sugar, you are TOO kind! :)
I wish I had the patience and talent to attempt something like these... alas, not to be, so I'll just enjoy your beautiful pics! Thanks, Kathye
Kathye, thank you for the compliment, but you have more talent in your little finger than I have, period. :)
Those are gorgeous! I love the sound of using mascarpone.
Thanks JPee! I like the sound of that too. :)
Linda, these are beautiful! I just love the color pink you used ~ so old fashioned looking. The butterflies are just lovely!!! Well done.
Katy, thank you for your compliment about my cupcakes! I wanted to tell you (and I just changed my post to reflect it) that the pink on the strawberry cupcakes is purely from the puree! I am so pleased with the strawberry cupcake recipe (Candace Nelson's) and her use of strawberry puree in the batter as well as the frosting—the resulting color is just gorgeous!
So pretty Linda! The strawberry frosting I have been making has puree in the frosting also. So yummy!
Thanks HoneyB! :)
Sophie, you are so sweet--thanks for visiting! I would let you try one of each. ;)
What a delicious blog you have. Those cupcakes are so beautiful. I love your work.
What a wonderful compliment! Thanks for visiting, Helene!
WOW these look amazing! Beautiful and delicious. Wish you were around to have you bake cupcakes for my next birthday :)
Hi Tiffany! Thank you, and I would love to bake those cupcakes for you.
These are little works of art! The butterflys are beautiful!
Thank you, Bunny! Don't look too close ;)
Hey, I use this blog skin too for my cupcakes blog! ;)) what a coincidence!
http://sweetbitesbypriscilla.blogspot.com/
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