Last night the girls got to go to a local cupcake shop and try their hands out at decorating cupcakes. They had a blast!
They got to tour the kitchen (the mounds of butter they use every day shocked them), and got a demonstration of how to decorate the cupcakes then got two cupcakes to decorate themselves. They had plastic piping bags for buttercream icing, balls of fondant to roll out (and moulds to shape it in), candies, and a variety of shaping tools to use on the fondant like clay.
The shaker is for cornstarch - you need to sprinkle it over the mould and over the fondant as otherwise it can (and will) stick to everything.
A few tips for fellow leaders - ask the girls NOT to wear their sashes and scarves. Either they get icing on them, or end up touching them to adjust them and then need to wash their hands again. Also, the place we went has a lot of experience giving these kinds of programs for birthday parties, so they were really on the ball - but you wouldn't want inexperienced bakers with the girls. Finally, make sure that you have a few skintight rubber gloves on hand. We had a girl who had a band-aid on her hand and we had to replace it thrice!
They got to tour the kitchen (the mounds of butter they use every day shocked them), and got a demonstration of how to decorate the cupcakes then got two cupcakes to decorate themselves. They had plastic piping bags for buttercream icing, balls of fondant to roll out (and moulds to shape it in), candies, and a variety of shaping tools to use on the fondant like clay.
The shaker is for cornstarch - you need to sprinkle it over the mould and over the fondant as otherwise it can (and will) stick to everything.
A few tips for fellow leaders - ask the girls NOT to wear their sashes and scarves. Either they get icing on them, or end up touching them to adjust them and then need to wash their hands again. Also, the place we went has a lot of experience giving these kinds of programs for birthday parties, so they were really on the ball - but you wouldn't want inexperienced bakers with the girls. Finally, make sure that you have a few skintight rubber gloves on hand. We had a girl who had a band-aid on her hand and we had to replace it thrice!
All the fun of decorating on a tray!
My efforts :-)
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