Mumnset Village Show - Cupcake Competition

[ChippyMinton]

Right ladies, new thread, let's get the rules set down so we can get baking

thanks, Slubber

Vive le cupcakes

la la la

So shall we discuss recipes for the cupcakes? Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Nigellas VSC I did use her all in one magimix resp for the cupcakes. It worked a treat.

Anyone ever tried those fancy cakes with molten stuff in the middle?

i used the H F-W recipe. with a little added vanilla. very yummy!

I used my favorite vinilla cake recipe.. and vanilla butter cream frosting... all the cakes look lovely though.. especially the childrens ones

Daemara, recp. for vanilla butter cream frosting please

In a completely nerdy fashion I loved doing the weighing bit in HFW's VSC. 'Twas like a science experiment.

I though your icing was great LL.

I'm going to nab your idea for a Rainbow Guides activity!

Slubber-

Vanilla Buttercream Icing

1/2 cup butter (about half a packet)
1 1/2 cups confectioner?s sugar
1 tablespoon milk (or water)
1 teaspoon vanilla ( I used a little more to be very vanilla-y)

Beat butter until smooth. Cream in the sugar. When smooth add milk (water) and vanilla, beating until creamy. Its very simple but very nice.

Wow , they're amazing. I'd love to have a talent like that. What a fun job.

Ta Daemara, is confectioners sugar the same as icing sugar?

Your use of cups is a dead givaway that your an expat . My Mum does everything in cups (she's an Aussie) so I'll ask her for an interpretation!

Slubber- yup i do admit to being American, ex-Californian to be exact... I can't figure out the whole scales thing.. its just so much easier to do a cup of this cup of that.. when I do use cups that it.. alot of my cooking is a bit more organic and chaotic than that...

bumsex carrot cake (sorry)

There are some FABULOUS entries here

Also some very nice kitchens

How do you measure butter in a cup? I mean when you cut up the block its, well all squarish, and a cup is not. Do you have to squish it down into the cup to get a proper cups worth??

(even my mum uses her scales for butter)

half a cup is basically half a block of butter.. if you measure it once you normally remember, a whole block of butter is about a cup... my cake recipe calls for a half a cup so the other half is used for the icing.. Unsalted butter btw

ooohh fancy cup LL. I cannot buy anymore cookbooks. My window ledge is groaning, half of them I will only have done one recipe. DD's cramp my cooking style big time!

MP...norty. We are trying to raise the tone here!

I've just had a good look at all the cupcakes, and there are some terrifically talented cupcakers out there.

I can't believe that I'm in a discussion about recipes ("d"h calls my cooking Cordon Noir) but dd and I used a recipe from the BBC food website by James Martin but cunningly used soya butter to make them dairy free, so I could eat 'em,too.

Aha, well cutting a block of butter in half is a doddle.

There is still so much to learn re the art of baking!

Well I'm off to make myself a proper hot chocolate and settle onto the sofa with DH to watch Rome.

See all you lovely ladies here tomorrow for the results

Judge Tigi here -

Here are the rules, as defined by LL

THE RULES

1. the recipe and size (muffin or fairy cake) is up to you (ie anything goes)
2. the deadline is midnight on Sunday for pictures to be posted on the competition picture trail
3. you may submit a maximum of six cakes in total in all or any of the following categories:

Best decoration
Most inventive presentation
Best childrens' entry
Overall

I have just popped into the marquee for a quick pre-peek and meet with door security, and I note how high the standard appears to be this year. It will be very hard to judge, I can tell you.. (smooths pinny, and brushes icing sugar from shoulder). It was noted, however, that some rules have been bent, with regard to the numbers of cakes entered. This is making it very difficult for me...
Prizes will be awarded as above.
My itinery is very tight tommorow, with meetings at various marquees all day. I may not be available in the marquee until 7pm, due to the jam makers AGM. However, if the Best Saucer garden can be finished early, judging of the cup cakes may commence 1pm. I will post a notice tommorow to advise when attendance is required, and an announcement will be due.
Regards, Judge Tigi

Oh dear oh dear
are we going to be disqualified? I just copied everyone else. We were only meant to have SIX cakes chaps

[panics]

I am new to all this!

I just followed what the big girls were doing!

Are our cakes going to be confiscated now?