Well, here are my latest. The first pic is w/o the icing. They were supposed to look like Tye-Dye cupcakes but didn''t quite turn out. I found that nothing worked as I thought it would with these cupcakes, although they were tasty! I''m hoping the cupcake experts can help me. First, when I placed the mnm''s on top of the cupcakes before baking them, I assumed they would melt in and have different colors throughout the cake. They really didn''t. They mainly stayed on the top, as you can see in the first pic. I kind of wondered what the point of having them in the recipe was since they didn''t mix in when baking. Then, the recipe said you can leave the mnm''s in the icing batter for an hour and the colors will melt, making the frosting tye-dye like. That didn''t happen. It just looked white with pieces of mnm''s in there. I added a little food coloring just for fun. Also, I used the recipe that I originally posted, basically butter, a few T of milk and sugar. I thought they were too sweet. I think I like the recipe w/cream cheese better but I know Mara''s said she makes icing that isn''t as sweet. Is there another recipe out there that''s different?
My last problem was that I couldn''t use the tips to frost the cupcake b/c the mnm pieces kept getting stuck, so I really couldn''t test any of the tips, however, the frosting was definitely thick enough so it might''ve worked w/o the mnm''s.
Here''s the pics (as always, I welcome suggestions):
My last problem was that I couldn''t use the tips to frost the cupcake b/c the mnm pieces kept getting stuck, so I really couldn''t test any of the tips, however, the frosting was definitely thick enough so it might''ve worked w/o the mnm''s.
Here''s the pics (as always, I welcome suggestions):
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