In a hurry

So this evening, my father comes home from work at about 17.30 with a small request for me - one of his colleagues was leaving them tomorrow, and could i bake some cakes for him to take to work.

My challenge this evening then - create some nice cakes in a very short space of time. Obviously the simplest choice is to make normal plain cupcakes (Americans might think of them as 'yellow' cupcakes - imaginative...)  and decorate them nicely. I remembered a nice looking recipe on my list called 'Princess Cupcakes'. These only required vanilla cupcakes and some buttercream icing (my favourite type!) - simple!

So this is what i created:

They don't look quite like the ones in the book, especially seeing as I ran out of icing and couldn't pipe little stars around the outside or that my father forgot the silver balls when he went shopping... but all in all I'm quite proud of them - this is only my third attempt at piping things, but I'm getting better :). I did have one tiny problem - the buttercream melted and began to seperate - this caused all sorts of problems, and the last few cakes the icing didn't hold together. Instead of leaving it in the fridge to firm up, i decided to scrape it all out of the piping bag and eat it :D I managed to get icing ALL up my arms.. oops? Main thing is - they taste nice, and were appreciated (though they did question why i made pink icing...)

MMFC