Saturday, July 11, 2009

Birthday Cupcakes





For my niece's first birthday party, Brian and I made vanilla cupcakes with pink buttercream frosting and marzipan daisies. Except for the buttercream getting a little too warm (soupy buttercream results), the cupcakes were super cute I thought.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those are supercute! Were they vegan? (How do you make vegan buttercream???)
-- Jenji

Shelley said...

Of course they were vegan :) Thanks for the compliment.

Butter cream is essentially fat and sugar. The butter cream you get in the grocery store is probably vegan. They use shortening. So the only "fix" that I make is to use non-hydrogenated fat in mine.

Marzipan sometimes is not vegan. For some reason, sometimes there is egg in it. However, the brand that my local Safeway carries is vegan.