Buttercream Flowers Part 2

Okay. So I went to Target got the stuff I needed, came home and began the project. Just as I was finishing up making the frosting, my father-in-law calls to ask if he and my mother-in-law can stop over for an hour. Check with hubby, he says okay. I abandoned my frosting and spend the next half hour doing a mad dash clean. I had just enough time to cover the frosting in Saran Wrap before they walked in.

They ended up staying about two hours. But it was nice.

As soon as they left, I ran back to the kitchen to get started. I tried to make several kinds of no name flowers and a few roses. It didn't go to well. Let's be honest, they were terrible. Each and every one. I used the last bit of frosting to make nice classic swirl on the last cupcake just so I could end on a positive note.

I wanted to make more and try again, but I was out of butter. In case you hadn't noticed, I run out of stuff a lot. Oh, one more thing about me. I can't cook. At all. I sent hubby to work with a couple dozen cupcakes yesterday and one of the girls said to him, "Wow. You are so lucky. These cupcakes are amazing. Your wife must be a wonderful cook." He laughed and said, "Cupcakes are the only things she makes that taste well." He's 100% correct.

Buttercream Flowers

So I stayed up half the night watching YouTube videos on how to make buttercream flowers. I woke up late (remember I was up half the night) and excited to try them for myself. So I went into the kitchen and started gathering the ingredients together as I waited for the coffee to brew. (In addition to cupcakes I'm also a coffee fiend).

It was then that disaster struck. Not only was I out of cupcake liners, but also disposable pastry bags! I ordered a ton of each from Amazon last week, but they haven't arrived yet. Forgetting it was Sunday, I went to check my order online to see if they would be arriving today. Nope. Not until Tuesday!

I want more than anything to attempt these flowers today. So I'm going to suck it up and go to Target and get a teeny tiny amount of liners and bags. I know I'll pay a little more than I do when I buy from Amazon in bulk, but I have to have them today. It's seared into my brain and I can't think of anything else until I do it.

I'll post later to let you know how they turned out. Hopefully I'll also be able to figure out how to post pictures of them.

The Beginning

I'm working on starting a small home baked cupcake business. Ferris Wheel Cupcakes, named by my beautiful and fabulous mom. Join me as I blog about it's conception, birth and hopefully it's thriving future success. We'll have some fun along the way and hopefully help each other out.



Since I'm still in the very early stages, I don't have anything. Not even a website. Eek! But I've just commissioned my fabulously talented friend Amanda to make one for me. Websites are just her side business check out her musical goodness here http://www.amandaduncan.com/.



In addition to that I'm also setting up a small open house for people to come and sample the cupcakes. They will leave full and happy. And full of business cards to give to their friends. Thankfully I have a lot of talented friends and I've got my friend Alix to take some photographs, so while there is no website yet, it's definitely on it's way.