All about Cupcakes!!By Leisa Jones, Rosa Lemus, Doris

Morillo, Erin Richins, Loan Trinh, and Annette Welch

Our demonstration

We are no professionals by any means but today we plan to show you fast simple, and fun ways to decorate cupcakes.

“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” –Julia Child

Who doesn’t love a great cupcake?

Cupcakes come in all shapes and sizes but have you ever seen one you just couldn’t resist?› A cupcake that was just so cute it needed

to be eaten› A cupcake that you just had to have› A cupcake like nothing you had ever seen

before› Lets be honest what person hates

cupcakes?!

History of the cupcake The first cupcake recipe was invented in

1776.  It was a light cake that was baked in small cups.

Cupcakes were finally decorated with frosting in the 1920′s. Cupcakes were frosted in either Chocolate OR Vanilla Frosting.

During the years of the 2000′s New York city Magnolia Bakery gained tons of publicity by having their Cupcakes appear on HBO’s Sex and the City.

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Cheeseburger cupcakes Ingredients needed:

› 2 cupcakes: 1 yellow and one chocolate› White sprinkles› Frosting: red yellow and green

Directions: Take cupcakes and cut in half Layer cupcakes first yellow cupcake bottom, then chocolate

cupcake bottom, then a layer of red frosting, then a layer of yellow frosting, then dots of green frosting near the edges, and to top it off the yellow cupcake top,

For finishing touches add some white sprinkles and you have the hamburger cupcake.

By Leisa JonesIdea from www.pintrest.com

Elmo Cupcakes Ingredients needed:

› 1 chocolate cupcake, red frosting, Oreos, jumbo marshmallow, orange gumball.

o Directions:oFrost the cupcake so it looks texturedoBreak Oreo in half for mouthoCut jumbo marshmallows in half and use for

eyes. Dot of black frosting for middle of eye.oAdd orange gumball for nose.

By Rosa LemusIdea from www.pintrest.com

Berry-ful Cupcake Ingredients:

› Raspberry curd. Sweetened whipped cream or ice cream and fresh fruit

o Directions:oCarefully cut off caps with a serrated knifeoFill with whipped cream, ice cream and

raspberry curdoYou can also fill with other fresh fruits if

desiredBy Doris Morillo

Penguin Cupcakes Ingredients needed:

› Chocolate Cupcakes, Shredded coconut, Oreos, and white frosting.

o Directions:oFrost cupcake with white frostingoTake Oreo apart break one side in half for

wings and use the other for the faceoAdd coconut shavings for feathers

By Erin Richins

Frog Cupcakes Ingredients needed:chocolate cupcake, green, black and red frosting, and marshmallows.

o Directions:o Frost cupcake with green frostingo Cut marshmallow in half, use for eyeso Add black frosting dots to eyeso Use red frosting for mouth.

By Loan Trinh

Sunflower Cupcake Ingredients needed:

› Chocolate cupcake, Yellow and black frosting, mini chocolate chips, red M&M’s

o Directions:o Start by putting yellow frosting around edgeso Fill middle with chocolate frostingo Pour mini chocolate chips on chocolate middleo Frost red M&M to look like lady bug and place on top

of mini chocolate chips

By Annette WelchIdea from www.pintrest.com

I bet you didn’t know… Altitude affects how the things we bake and

cook turn out. Utah’s altitude of 4,327 feet above sea is considered high altitude.

Here are some tips for baking at high altitude› Reduce baking powder by 1/8-1/4 per tsp.› Reduce sugar by 0-2 TB per cup› Increase liquid by 2-4 TB per cup› Use cold water and extra cold eggs› Do not over beat eggs it adds air › Generously grease pans to prevent sticking› Fill pans 1/3-1/2 full so batter doesn’t spill over› Increase oven temp 25› Reduce baking time 20%

The complete refrence tool, California Culinary Academy and a number of websites: allrecipies.com, arapcsuext.org

Facts about cupcakes! In the early 19th century, before muffin tins were available, cupcakes were made by baking the

mixture in small pottery bowls The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of “a

cake to be baked in small cups” was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simms. The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes,

and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.

The name “fairy cake” is a fanciful description of its size, which would be appropriate for a party of diminutive fairies  to share. While English fairy cakes vary in size more than American cupcakes, they are traditionally smaller, and rarely topped with elaborate icing.

The first cupcakes did not have frosting as we know it, but instead were gilded with lard as a kind of cake-moistening gravy. Winston Churchill was the first person to suggest a kind of sweet frosting on the top of the cakes. He later blamed the frosting for his behemoth jowls.

While generally assumed to be about psychedelic drugs, John Lennon’s song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is actually about cupcakes. This came as a surprise to all Beatles scholars because it contains no mention of cupcakes or hidden references to them. John Lennon was later quoted in an interview, “You never know what you’re writing when you write a song, it’s only years later you realize the truth. You think you’re writing about other people, but you’re really writing about cupcakes. Goo goo ga joob. Imagine. Yoko Ono.”

Cupcakes can be baked in individual paper or foil tins, muffin tins, pottery cups, coffee mugs or ramekins

You can add Pudding and/or Sprite to cake mix to make it more moist

Facts cont. Guinness World Records largest cupcake in the world

weighed one ton. It took 600 pounds of butter cream to frost it and had jawbreakers for sprinkles.

The smallest cupcake was baked in Great Britain. It was 1.5 centimeters high and 3 centimeters wide.

The record for eating cupcakes is 29 cupcakes in 30 seconds.10 most popular cupcake flavors: 10-Vanilla, 9-Pumpkin, 8-Banana, 7-Coffee, 6-Chocolate, 5-Lemon, 4-Peanutbutter, 3-Carrotcake, 2-Red Velvet cake, 1-Chocolate/vanilla.

Questions??