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Cupcake confession

April 29, 2008 at 9:40 pm | In confession, cupcakes |

Can I brag a little bit before I admit something?

I think I am pretty darn good with my piping skills. To say that I love my 1M piping tip would be an understatement. It creates that beautiful star tip swirl that always makes me giddy but forgive me cupcake gods for I have sinned…

Confession: I really suck at frosting with a spatula.

You have no idea how many times I’ve watched the above Magnolia Bakery youtube video. Seriously. I’ve tried to imitate the motion so many times! But I just don’t have the “flick of the wrist” talent that gives you that nice swirl on top. poo.

::handing over my cupcake credentials::

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If it’s cupcake confession time, here’s mine - I can’t spread, pipe, or swirl frosting on a cupcake to save my life, so my favorite way is to put a little bit of frosting on, take a bite, put more frosting on… Because cupcakes are a vehicle for frosting in my book

Comment by Caitlin — April 30, 2008 #
CAITLIN, haha. fabulous. “vehicle for cupcakes” has just become my new motto.

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
It’s my opinion that when using a spatula (well I’m not fancy, I just use a butter knife) to spread frosting I just slap it on. Piping is for making it beautiful. Slapping it on is to make it look homemade.

Comment by Mary — April 30, 2008 #
MARY, homemade isn’t necessarily a bad thing but I do like the pretty swirls I can get from piping. Curious…? Do you think that Magnolia’s looks homemade?

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
Whoa, dude! How’d he do that? Those are mad skills! I am pretty good at piping too and I also suck, royally, with the spatula. Boo…

Comment by Janna — April 30, 2008 #
JANNA, ty! I was feeling all incompetent watching that video. Maybe I need a bigger spatula?

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
I haven’t seen the video but I always feel like my piping skills are kinda…sucky. Practice makes perfect????

Comment by Mara — April 30, 2008 #
MARA, practice definitely makes perfect. I keep trying with a spatula but I am way better at piping. Go figure. *shrugs

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
Maybe they have a magic spatula.
Maybe we should break into Magnolia Bakery and steal it?

Comment by Janna — April 30, 2008 #
JANNA, haha. magic spatula. I can not condone breaking and entering BUT I would not be adverse to getting in on the magic spatula action if you do steal it. ::winkhintwink::

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
CB-clearly he’s been practicing for a LOOONNNNG time, a professional if you will! Did you make amainzg fondant flowers in your first wilton class?!
Patience my dear friend.

Comment by beth — April 30, 2008 #
BETH, unfortunately patience is not a virtue I possess. LOL. but thank you for the reminder.

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
Cupcakes aint my thang, but I tell ya, talk about a time saver with the piping tip! Do you KNOW how long it would take anybody to frost some cupcakes using a spatula. NO thank you.

Comment by doreen — April 30, 2008 #
DOREEN, amen! I know it would take me FOREVER to frost 12-24-48+ cupcakes with a spatula but that magnolia dude didn’t take long at all. I obviously need to practice alot more.

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
Wow, that is truly something else.

I *adore* your swirls.

Julius
from Occasional Baker

Comment by Julius — April 30, 2008 #
JULIUS, aawww you’re too sweet. thanks for making me feel better…

Comment by CB — April 30, 2008 #
that was fast! and im just starting to have some fun making my swirls my fairy tips

Comment by gailey — May 1, 2008 #
GAILEY, fairy tips! Love that. I definitely prefer tips to spatula. Makes me feel all professional… haha

Comment by CB — May 1, 2008 #
VERY good point re: the spatula vs the piping tip and time saving. The other night I frosted 24 mini cuppies, 6 large cuppies and assembled my layer cake all with a piping back and a big 1m star tip within 10 minutes, and just used the spatula for the top of the cake. Spatula’ing everything would take forever.

Comment by Mara — May 1, 2008 #
oops…that would be ‘piping bag’

Comment by Mara — May 1, 2008 #
MARA, dang girl! busy much? haha.

Comment by CB — May 1, 2008 #
ha ha i was on a mission!!!!

Comment by Mara — May 4, 2008 #
[...] I got tired and gave up piping frosting about a dozen in (hey! I was frosting cupcakes at 6am after NO sleep). So I switched using the straight icing spatula just to show CB that I could do that funny little swirl she was sobbing mentioning that she couldn’t do. [...]

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