Ok, so yesterday I realized, although this blog is a bit of a way for me to share my thoughts without having to come out and say them to anyone, it is also that I want to learn how to bake and decorate really well, and I have to write about my experiments more clearly. So this is experiment number 1. Cupcake is brown sugar pound cake from Martha Stewart's cupcakes, and chocolate buttercream from the Magnolia Bakery cookbook. The cake is good, the cream is good, but together they didn't do each other justice. Oddly these tasted better after 3 days than in the beginning. I wanted to pipe an easy swirl rose but the cream wasn't hard enough. Anyone out there with a dark thick chocolate cream recipe? Are there some hard ganaches out there that are good to pipe shapes? And the fondant flowers I made a few days before and they tasted super bitter when it was time to eat. Why is that, can someone tell me??? In the end, they look pretty, because of the chocolate sprinkles and the red sugar, but they are just not what I wanted. Any suggestions??
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