Few days after our trial rounds with the icings, we finally started the real thing! we head over to Nicholas's place again since he is the only one out of all of us that have an oven at home and a proper kitchen to work in too... so yea, we head to his place got all our ingredients and materials that had to be use. most of the ingredients ( flour, icing sugar, blue red yellow vanilla colorings, butter, milk) we used were mainly purchased in Tesco and some of the materials such as the cupcake paper holder ( and extra butter) were bought at one of the cake ingredient store in SS2 ( i forgot what is it call, didnt really take down the name of it since we coincidentally came across with it). if we knew earlier shops like those existed, i would prolly get most of the ingredient there, they had most of the stuff we needed there too.
okayyyy, so we got all our stuff ready, and got down to work ( hoping for the best that most of the cupcake would come out eatable, heee)
the whisked creamy looking baking powder, butter, egg and milk.
us girls did the separation of the ready whisked cupcake base while the boys made more of em.
we could only do 12 at once
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sooo every time we wait for one batch to be baked, we got our resting time for about 25 minutes,
and also prepare how the icing was gonna be...
( of course )
once we were finally done with the cupcakes, we moved on to the icing. since we didnt have much big bowls to have everything mixed at the s ame time, we had to wait until we finish with the base first only to move on to the icing. I must say the Icing was pretty fun, mixing the colors was fun eventhough it was a bit of a challenge for us to get it to the correct color. we wanted solid colors but couldn't, so we ended up settling for pastel colors
beautiful isn't it? :D
but it was kind of too sweet, couldn't help it.
when most of our cupcake making was done, we had to work on how our cupcake were to be placed on when presenting in class. we went to one of the DIY shops in Taipan after that and got PVC tubes ( really ugly and horribly painted ones.. eww ) and some Super super super glue to have it strongly sticked together if not our cupcake would all just tumble down ( we wouldnt want that of course. haha )
It was mainly worked on by the guys, it was their department anyways. haha, but i mean, we girls did help a little too since we weren't much of a help to them either. especially when it came to the cutting an saw of the tubes. they also painted the tubes black and it took ages for it to be dried because the sun was setting by that time. but we managed, of course :)
that concludes our time making the whole cupcake tower.
The next morning, we got up really early. Most of us woke up feeling a little down due to a slight cold. But we got to do what we got to do. got changed and had everything placed in the car ready to head to campus for our presentation.
we didnt have the icing on until we got to campus. because it would be a hassle to carry them worrying that the icing might be destroy on the way to class.
The is our end product :)
not really that satisfying with how the tower turned out to be like. I initially wanted more cupcakes to be done to cover the whole tower with it and not have any base seen at all, but we didn't do that since we would cost us even more.......... ARGH :( but we did put in our best to come up with this since it was our first time baking together and also being an amateur in baking we definitely learned a lot from this.
BUT MAINLY, we definitely learned a little better about the color theory after this assignment. we had to even think of what color to be on which side and next to which color in order to have it looked presentable.
and of course we had a lot of fun, and a lot of bonding time with each other :) xx
