Pulled several batches of cupcakes out of the freezer to ice. Baked a half batch of another chocolate cake recipe (double chocolate) I wanted to try. Had some leftover yellow icing (buttercream) & some black icing (chocolate buttercream) in the refrigerator. There was still just a little bit of the cinnamon icing so I pulled it out also.
Cupcakes with orange icing ready for MNO (Mother
Used all the cinnamon icing I had left on pumpkin cupcakes until it was gone. Add the black & yellow icing to the decorating bag to do a swirl design. Iced all of the butter vanilla cupcakes with it. Then I used the rest of it on chocolate cupcakes until I ran out. Then I mixed up a batch of orange buttercream icing. Figured it would go good with all the flavors I had so I would only need to make one batch of icing. So I have fig cupcakes with orange icing, pumpkin cupcakes with orange icing, lemon-orange cupcakes with orange icing & chocolate cupcakes with orange icing.
The icing smells really good; I like the taste of it. Had a fresh palate & STILL don’t care for the butter vanilla cake. Sarah didn’t much care for it either. Jim really liked it. So I will definitely be pushing it at tonight’s MNO (Mother’s Night Out) as I want other opinions before I mark it as “Nope. Don’t think so.” It is disappointing though as I want a good vanilla cake. White cake tends to be so tasteless so I thought it would be good to have a good vanilla cake.
Tomorrow I really must start doing things with the crabapples. Found several recipes on the net & I think I have picked out the ones I want to try. Need to finish them up, because apples are getting ripe & I KNOW I want apples.
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