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| Perfect beer pong form on his birthday. No surprise here. |
Dessert 1 - Chocolate chip cookie cake. This is what I make almost yearly for Hubby's bday. In the past, I used an Emeril cookie cake recipe (with some adjustments) but this year, I saw something pretty great on Pinterest (surprise surprise!). You can find the "Pinspiration" for the cookie cake I baked here.
I ended up getting a bit angry because I set a timer for the cookie and when it went off, I was busy working on something outside and no one told me! So I came back into the kitchen to the smell of beginning-to-burn cookie! >:( Fortunately, I managed to cut off the edges that got the brunt of the burning but the top of the cookie was MUCH too dark.
Hence, the frosting. Please excuse the quality of the minion. The frosting I used (Sparkle Gel, which I do not recommend because it is watery and spreads out, even with proper kneading and mixing *my personal experience*) settled and made him look...not so good.
Despite the slightly overcooked outside, the middle of the cookie was still squishy goodness (the secret is the corn starch!). I will definitely make this recipe again.
Dessert 2 - Despicable Me Minion Cupcakes. Pinspired again, except I couldn't find the pin I linked just now. I found the pictures that people pin from Google (I HATE THAT) that didn't have instructions...so I kind of had to make it up.
Anyway, Hubby LOVES Despicable Me and especially loves the minions (honestly, they're hard NOT to love). So when I saw this "pin" (if you can call it that...damn people pinning Google searches), I decided I had to make them for him.
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| Makin' minions. Don't I look stylish in a shirt that's not very flattering? |
He looks like a minion, right?! (I mean the one in the front). They came out pretty well. Here are a few more (since all the minions look different).
Here's the recipe and such of how I did them (in retrospect, I should have taken more pictures but I was frantically trying to get these done before Hubby found out about em):
What you'll need:
- Cupcakes (I was short on time so I used Betty Crocker boxed mix...in the future, I'll make em from scratch).
- White frosting
- Blue decorating frosting
- Black drawing frosting with thin pen tip
- Candy eyeballs (I found mine by the frosting in Safeway)
- Silver cupcake sprinkles (Cupcake Gems is the kind I used)
- Black Red Vines (it's Red Vines brand black licorice...confused yet?
- Cut Twinkies into 2 pieces. You don't necessarily need to cut them in half since minions come in all sizes!
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| All sizes, see? source |
2. Using the black frosting, attach eyes to each Twinkie (each minion gets either 1 or 2 eyes).
3. Still using the black frosting, draw a circle around each eye (or the 1 eye if that's the case). I got as
close as I could without getting the drawing frosting all over the eye. Don't forget straps down the
side to "hold the glasses on".
4. Using the silver sprinkles, carefully sprinkle a layer of them on the glasses you've drawn on the
minion Twinkie. Ideally, you could use silver frosting but, sadly, my Safeway is not quite that well
stocked in the baking section T-T.
5. Draw a mouth on your minion. It's better to draw the mouth on the minion after you've done your
sprinkles so they don't end up with glitter on their lips.
6. Slice the black licorice into pieces. Cut along the twist of the licorice to get a decent sized straight
piece licorice. Use these thin strips to give each minion a unique hairstyle. I like the combovers and
center parts but spikes are great too :)
7. Frost your cupcakes with the white frosting.
8. On the bottom of your minion, CAREFULLY (so as not to have all of your hard work fall off of
the twinkie) pipet out enough blue frosting to generously cover the cut side of the Twinkie.
Carefully place it on top of a cupcake. Make sure to push slightly to make sure the blue is visible
under the minion.
And voila! You have made Minion cupcakes!
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| Eh, para tu! |
Overall, the birthday party was a success. Happy birthday, Hubby.
