I have volunteered to do some cupcakes for an event at work celebrating the Olympics. I saw some fantastic cupcakes with three colour icing and though that would look fab. http://thecupcakeblog.com/tag/jubilee-cupcake/
Today I tested one method of three colour icing to see what it looked like. I used a standard vanilla cupcake and vanilla buttercream recipe. For the cakes though I split the mix into three bowls and coloured them pink (didn’t have any red), white and baby blue. They looked fab when cooked.
Onto the icing, the buttercream was split the same way and coloured as the cakes were. This method I decided to put all three colours into the same piping bag, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be overly satisfied with the result but wanted to give it a go.
However I wasn’t too disappointed in the results, it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for which I expected, although it looked quite nice. I did find I would have wasted a lot of buttercream as you couldn’t get all the colours evenly into the bag, as it was a test I didn’t wait till I had got all three colours piping through and just piped the cakes right away (only for our consumption so it didn’t matter what they looked like). If I had been doing them properly there would have been a fair bit of wasted icing.
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