bake me a cake as fast as you can…
These cupcakes were a cute and easy way to celebrate the holidays at my son’s school. I’m not going to lie, I felt some pressure to deliver when I was named as one of the moms in charge of the winter holiday party. (You should see what some of the moms at school do.) And then I heard myself volunteering to bake. (A weak moment which I’ll blame on sleep deprivation.) While I do enjoy cooking and baking, I’m not really the Susie Homemaker type…I mean, my form of exercise is pole dancing, I love swearing and I don’t host a weekly playgroup at my home. But I wanted to create something the kids would find cool. And of course I wanted my son to be proud of his mama.
If you live in NYC, NY Cake and Baking Company is a baker’s dream. I love it and I don’t even love (or have the patience) to bake. They have every kind of jimmy, sprinkle, frosting, cake mold, cookie cutter, etc. all the way up to professional baking and display materials. After searching for holiday cupcake ideas online, I decided to make my own version of snowmen. There is so much you can do with these if you have the time and inclination. I used basic Betty Crocker vanilla cupcake mix and icing and holiday liners I found at NY Cake. Once cooled and frosted, I added a marshmallow which I decorated with black gel. I used dark chocolate baking disks, which I adhered to the marshmallow with more frosting for the hat. (My husband claimed they looked French.) My carrot nose proved to be a little difficult since I didn’t have the right tip for my orange frosting tube (some looked like a lame version of Mr. Bill or a group of penguins) but it worked. You could use anything for the nose, including orange gummies. I found snowflake jimmies and sprinkled them all over the dish. And if you weren’t walking them 10 blocks to school, you could make them 2 marshmallows high to resemble a real snowman. Use jimmies instead of frosting for the eyes and buttons, licorice for a scarf…the list goes on.
My only regret is not eating one…my husband claims he “forgot” to share the one extra with me…
