Cupcake Making: A Fun Activity for Kids

Reunited with my eldest brother and his family after 3 months to celebrate his birthday at our parents house. So happy and was excited to see my 2 beautiful nieces. When they arrived I have already prepared an activity for the two girls...

Since it was their father's birthday I asked them to help me prepare their dad's cupcakes; The easiest one is my 'Carrot Walnut'. It was so fun and I did enjoy making cupcakes with them. So happy to see them got excited over pouring in oil, cracking eggs, sifting flour mixing them all together and so on. I even let them drop a batter on each liners. They were so happy and giggly over their cupcakes.

The super fun part was (and they were patiently waiting for this while the cupcakes were baking) the frosting... I prepared all the toppings and the icings; the icings were supposed to be white, green and orange for the carrot but my niece wanted it pink.

 

Only the eldest of my niece were able to frost some of the cupcakes because the other one got afraid of our golden retriever dog named Winnie when she passed by the dirty kitchen, so my niece went up to her grandma sobbing. Huhu =(

So these photos above are the finished products that my niece made for her dad. Two letter "F" for her dad's first letter name and two smileys represents her and her sister. It was a really fun day for me and I guess a fun day for my two nieces too. ^^

Sesame Street Cupcake

Finally! I'm done with my Sesame Street Cupcakes.

These are samples for my son's first birthday. Banana buttercream frostings in moist chocolate cupcake. I used fondant icing for their eyes, nose, and tongue. For the mouth, I used chocolate cookies which I also baked and for Big Bird's beak, marshmallow.

Say 'Hello!' to:

ELMO

OSCAR the Grouch

COOKIE MONSTER

and

BIG BIRD

Let me know what you think of these. Hit 'Like it' or 'Love it' before the comment section. Thanks.

Character Cupcake: Draft of Oscar the Grouch Cupcake

I was so desperate to have Sesame Street Themed Cupcakes for my son's 1st birthday that's made of buttercream (for cheaper costs) so the characters' faces are not just simple toppers or flat fondant (costly na kasi kapag 3D fondant pa). I found lots of suppliers but I still needed to cut down my costs so I decided to bake cupcakes since I used to bake cookies and brownies before. I started exploring and trying out different cupcake recipes. My sister and I are trying to come up with a cupcake, that is not only moist and soft but delicious as well, and the perfect frosting to top it with. Fortunately, our mom has experience in baking cakes and making frostings for our birthday when we were young so she's helping us out right now, teaching us her techniques and sharing her experience.

The other day, I baked this moist chocolate cupcake and I was thinking of what frosting would match it. I thought of marshmallow frosting but my sister didn't like the idea until I decided to try and make vanilla buttercream. The first buttercream I made was too sweet, redid it and added unsweetened milk chocolate syrup that I previously made. My siblings and in-laws liked the chocolate frosting in my moist chocolate cupcake. Nabawasan naman ang sweetness but it's sill too sweet for me. Then I researched for a new recipe for vanilla buttercream; read some tips/ideas and explored variations and voila! I'm able to come up with my own tasty vanilla buttercream! Next was finding the best tip to frost (I'm such an amateur I know! Buti na lang andiyan si mother) until I found this weird tip which I couldn't fathomed what it is used for. I asked my mom about it and when she showed me how to use it I eventually thought of Oscar the Grouch; na-excite ako so I looked for the green food color and added banana flavor and made Oscar the Grouch frosting for moist chocolate cupcake. Coming up with this cupcake was unexpected, I didn't have anything to make his eyes, mouth and the scary eyebrow. I just utilized what I have around. I'll definitely make this again and the other Sesame Street characters for Jabin's 1st Birthday. Will make Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and more importantly, Elmo!

Cupcakes: Sophie's Mom

 

Got a pasalubong from my sister: Cupcakes from Sophie's Mom. I've been seeing this on Google search and on facebook and been wanting to try this since I was in search for the best cupcakes for my son's birthday. Then she had an appointment somewhere in Ortigas togethjer with my mom and they were able to drop by Megamall and bought these.

Cute box in baby blue and baby pink color.

Red Velvet Cupcake P60

What I like about their Red Velvet is the cream cheese frosting. The perfect frosting for red velvet cake. When it comes to red velvet cakes I look for the moistness, softness and smoothness (velvetiness?) of the cake. The cake itself is ok. I give it a score of 8 out of 10.

Green Tea Cupcake w/ White Choc-Green Tea Ganache P70

I love green tea.. from tea to frappe to donuts.. but I'm not really sure of this one. It just wouldn't get through my throat. I love the idea though, but it just didn't work for me.

Chocolate Cupcake

Rainbow Burst Cupcake P65

If you wanna try these cupcakes you can visit their store at these branches:

SM Megamall A, Ground Floor
  SM North Edsa, The Block
SM Southmall, Ground Level
8760 Santol St., San Antonio Village, Makati City

You can also check them out through Facebook and browse their menu HERE!

They also have cookies, truffles, mochi ice cream and breads.

Cupcakes: Gigi Coffee and Cupcakes

I'm in love with Gigi's cupcakes.

Top-Bottom (L-R): Red Velvet, Peppermint, Cookies and Cream, Chocolate, Buttercream, Sea Salt

As soon as I got a bite with one of these cupcakes I knew this is the one. Every bit of it is so heavenly. The red velvet is the best! The best among all the red velvets I've had so far. Umm.. No! Not just the red velvet actually, but all their cupcakes are the best cupcakes among all the cupcakes I've had so far.

Buttercream

With the buttercream, I never expected it could be this goooood.

Gigi Coffee and Cupcakes Box

So if you haven't tried Gigi Cupcakes you better visit them now at Eastwood City near Epixtar and visit their facebook page here as well.

Enjoy!