A friend's sister ordered some cupcakes to take to a painting party. They're going to a shop where an artist teaches them how to paint a picture, providing them with all the supplies they need. Sounds like fun to me--especially if someone told me what to do step by step.
Anyway, at first the order was for a dozen cupcakes with bright colored frosting. She emailed the picture they're going to paint to her sister. When I saw it, I had no idea what to do. I didn't think plain frosting would go with this picture:
So, what I ended up doing was spraying the cupcake holder with aerosolized orange food coloring. Then, I tried to mimic the feathers behind the peacock into a flower-like pattern. I used white with a green stripe. Then I sprayed them lightly with yellow coloring.
The peacock feathers were hard. Since the cupcake is round, the feather shape didn't translate that well. I tried to make them kinda abstract like the painting, but I'm afraid they just turned out messy.
Do they even look like peacock feathers to you? They kinda look like sick eyeballs to me.
I like them -- they look like an artistic peacock feather :)
ReplyDeleteBTW, are you *really* not going to give us the 4-1-1 on the type of cupcake and frosting and stuff?!
Sorry! It was a chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Pretty boring stuff, except for the color.
ReplyDeleteOh Cecily!! Your cupcakes were a HUGE hit with the birthday peeps! Everyone thought they were really cute, but when they tasted them...they had to have another! One girl even said, "I'm really picky about my cupcakes, but these are exceptional!" Oh yes, she said that. And then, we took the remaining few to the painting class with us, and the artist saw them and freaked out! She took a picture for her own album
ReplyDeleteSo, a big shout out to you and your mad skills!!
Kelly