Hello, Westie Valentine Cupcakes!
Well, both Valentine's and St. Patrick's days have come and gone and I'm finally getting around to posting photos of our experiment with cupcakes. In my previous blog entry , I had just purchased the book, Hello, Cupcake, and was anxious to give the Westie cupcakes a try. I have to admit, I wasn't able to find a suitable reusable replacement for Ziploc bags, and in the end I purchased a small Wilton cake decorating kit with a couple of decorating tips and plastic icing bags. The kit also had icing food coloring which came in quite handy. Below is the whole pack of Westie Valentine cupcakes; some of them are wearing pink ruffles: And here is the very first cupcake, not a masterpiece at all! I tried to use miniature M&M's for the eyes, but they're much too large for this face: Here are two of the best finished cupcakes. The eyes and nose are mini chocolate morsels and the scale is much better: The cupcake Westies with the pink ruffles a
Their noses are grey, not black. One of my Westies has a grey nose.
ReplyDeleteYes, Keli has her "winter nose" again; in real life its brownish-black and it usually darkens up a little in the summer. Penny's nose is pretty dark in real life, too. Maybe it appears lighter in the photos because of the editing and other lighting enhancements. She *is* part schnauzer, so who knows. :-)
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