Baking Project

picture from www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com

I can’t do any baking today as I am busy running some errands and also attending to some contractors doing work at my house. So, just a short note on ‘drop flower’. Basically, drop flowers are made with butter cream or royal icing, using piping/decorating tips.

The above chart from Wilton is very useful as it shows the reference number of the tip and how the outcome of the flowers look like. As you can see, there are many types of tips, you can buy this in any bakery supply shops. Normally they put the tips in small plastic drawers. One usually cost less than RM5.00 depending on the size.

You can colour the icing using the usual liquid food colouring. The icing should be of medium consistency. If using royal icing, drop flowers can be made in advance to be used later on cakes or cupcakes.

To learn to make drop flowers, please refer to the following links :

Baking911

Sugarcraft

Bakedecoratecelebrate

Howstuffworks

Happy decorating !

Here’s the basic recipe I used :

3 eggs

1 cup butter (softened)

3/4 cup caster sugar

1/2 cup of milk

1 1/2 cup of self-raising floor (sifted) If you don’t have self-raising, see here for substitute.

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

First, preheat oven to 160 C and arrange all the cupcakes paper in the cupcake pan. Beat the eggs lightly, then add butter and sugar. Mix until it turns light and all fluffy. Then add the milk & vanilla alternating with the flour. Beat for a further 2 minutes (do not overbeat). Pour into the cupcake not more than 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes or so.