Tuesday 30 August 2011

Pimms o'cupcake



Ok it's summer, the sun is shining, well occasionally anyway so we all know what time it is!?! Pimm's o'clock of course, but in this time pimms o'cupcake.

These were the perfect dessert at our family BBQ and my first stab at 'mass' catering. (if 24 cupcakes could be considered mass :p). The cake batter had 300ml of pimms in and the icing was the usual butter icing which I do but divided into three parts: 1) had cucumber mashed into it 2)had a strawberry syrup that i made by heating and mashing strawberries with grenadine and 3) had lemon juice and zest. these three icings were put into the same icing bag and piped on together. I then made some mint sugar (caster sugar and fresh mint bashed together) which was sprinkled over. Then adorned with a slice of lemon, strawberry, cucumber and mint leaf. I thought of 'pimms cupcakes' and after researching stumbled across a few things that inspired me! So can't take all the credit. No such thing as an original idea ey?

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