Sprinkle Obsession

I have a confession to make, I am obsessed with sprinkles. I was organizing my sprinkle and cupcake wrapper shelf in my pantry and that is when I realized that there were more sprinkles in there than I thought I had. After counting them I found out I have 29 containers of sprinkles and some of those containers are sectioned off having four or more choices in each container. So I actually have tons of choices when it comes to what sprinkles I want to use. I don't know when this obsession began, but one thing I do know is most of these came from HomeGoods, where I work. We always get in different types of sprinkles at great prices, so I just can't resist their beautiful shapes and colors. Also whenever I see a new container of sprinkles I don't have, I start thinking of a the things I can do if I had those sprinkles, so I buy them. Some may say that I have enough sprinkles, but I know that I will probably be buying some again in the near future, especially if it is a color or shape that I wont be able to resist. :)

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Butter Cream Frosting

One of the questions I am always asked is how do I make the butter cream icing that I put on my cakes. Therefore I decided that it is only best that I put the recipe on my blog. The recipe actually comes from Wilton and it is the one I always use when it comes to decorating cakes. If you want to have different colored frostings just add the frosting dye of your choice. To make chocolate frosting add 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to the frosting. If you want the brown to be a darker tint, then I add brown frosting dye until it is the color I like. Now if you want to make black frosting, then the best thing to do is make the chocolate frosting first and then add black dye to it. Well I hope these tips work for when you make your own butter cream frosting.

Butter Cream Frosting

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup shortening
1 teaspoon clear vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk

In a mixer, combine the butter and the shortening until mixed. Add the vanilla. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time making sure to scrape the bowl. The frosting will look crumbly and that’s ok. Add the milk until the frosting is smooth. At this point add the colored dye or cocoa powder depending on what kind of frosting you want to make. Enjoy.

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Sprinkles

I was asked to make some wedding cupcakes for a friend's sister and she requested that they would have big pink and black sprinkles on top. Well I had a hard time finding any around town or on the Internet, therefore I made them myself (which was not easy). What I did was I bought some pink and black fondant and rolled it out super thin. I then took a frosting tip and used the end of it to cut out circle shapes. I did this until there was no fondant left. After many long hours I finally had enough sprinkles for over 100 cupcakes.

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