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Oct 18, 2008 09:40

it was my friend's birthday yesterday, so i made her cupcakes.














they're a regular yellow cake recipe that i just upped the vanilla on and added one cup of blueberries to. the icing is a buttercream with half butter and half shortening, instead of all butter.
i made the cupcakes toppers by hand. i traced circles on paper with a circle cookie cutter, wrote happy birthday, and taped them to toothpicks, using double sided tape to stick the two circles together (there's a front and a back - back is just blank). i was going to pipe "happy birthday!" on in yellow, but i know what kind of luck i have and didn't want to ruin the icing. some of the cupcakes have just blue icing, and some have the blue and white swirl thing going on. which was intentional, not because i didn't mix my food dye in all the way! i set aside some white and dyed the rest blue.

i haven't had cupcakes that didn't mess up in some way or another for a while now (or even, an opportunity to bake cupcakes at all!), so i was really excited.

:)
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