Some friends were asking me 'where are the recipes for those cupcakes', and I had to admit I followed the same recipe as always, but for the 'look' of the cupcake I had surfed the internet! So hereby, for you guys, and perhaps others, some sites I look at and some books I use :)
Basicaly, you'll just need a book you can use for your basic recipes. I have a dutch book called '500 cupcakes' (Bol.com url) which has a lot of basic recipes, classics, chocolate, muffins, healthy, fat-reduced, funny, etcetera.
Then you can work your way out from there! Whenever you have the chance to bake, try something different, a new recipe, colours, tastes, looks, anything!
For example, I was sick of using the same old butter/icing sugar (poedersuiker) recipe for the topping, so I went searching the internet. Afraid of trying ANYTHING I found there, I just kept with what I was making and tried to make them different like with oreo-topping!
When I went on a trip to london last July, I found a book called 'Cox Cookies & Cake' which had some new recipes, but also some cool new ideas for cupcake decoration. First off, I found an amazing sweet fattening topping: icing sugar+butter+cream cheese+white chocolate+vanilla.. hmmm my mouth is watering again! The next thing was that I found out about new methods of decoration. I found a really great store in London called 'Jane Asher' and bought a **** load of things :D..
- Colour Paste: I can buy colouring where I live, but this paste is so much better! In stead of pouring the whole bottle in, I only need a tip of a toothpick to get a soft colour, and two more tips to get the darker colour!
- Edible Glitter. Glitter does make everything better.
- Mo(u)lds! Bendable ones especialy. You can buy them on etsy.com but also on a lot of baking websites, and some of the baking stores in Holland. You can use fondant (or marsepein) and literaly mold it with these molds, instead of hand crafting something like a rose or a butterfly :)!
Now for the inspiration, it depends on what things I would still want to make, decorate and bake. In the case of christmas however, you get the typical christmas-y bakings :D. So I'll scout the local baking stores, spend all my well-earned money from my new job and start baking. But if I want to make 'nerdy ' cupcakes, I'll just go on google .. yes you read it right, google! If that doesn't work, I go on Deviantart, which is a pretty good and big resource for more ideas and inspiration in general. And if you still don't know what to do after looking at the ocassion and the internet, try some of these links 000>
Some links:
http://www.cupcakesenmuffins.nl (Dutch only)
Pokemon
(Retro) games
Cute faces, 2
Superheroes, 2
Settlers of Catan
Mario!
Actually cake, not cupcake, lego
My inspiration for the cookie monster cupcakes
General links:
Passion for Parties (look at the yummy part)
All things Cupcake (really good!)
Bakerella (likewise :D)
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