The Excellent Easter Cupcake Extravaganza!

This week all the foods classes participated in a two day long cupcake baking and decorating marathon.  All the cupcakes were decorated with an Easter theme with the ice cream cone cupcake being the specialty.  A great time was had by all!
To prepare we watched a two how-to videos and a video of the recording of the "Cuppycake Song".  Here are the links -
Original recording of the Cuppycake Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Z6pWhM6TA
How to make cupcakes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngN4TWgL3sY
how to make ice cream cone cupcakes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3WBqSAfEs


Vanilla Cupcake:

• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 1/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cups cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line one 12-cup cupcake tin with paper liners. (To avoid cupcakes sticking if they overflow slightly, lightly spray the tops of the pans.) Put tins on a baking sheet. Set aside.
Process sugar and butter in a mixer until very creamy, scraping sides as needed, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the egg and yolk, one at a time, pulsing after each addition. Add the milk, water, and vanilla and process to blend.
Whisk both flours, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add the dry ingredients, in 3 batches to the wet, pulsing, and then scraping batter off the sides of the processor as needed after each addition. Process until the batter is very smooth and pourable like pancake batter, about 2 minutes.
Evenly pour the batter into the prepared cups, filling them 3/4 of the way full. Bake until the cakes are just firm and spring back when gently pressed, and the tops are golden, 18 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly in tin, and turn out of tin when cool enough to handle. Cool cupcakes completely on a rack before frosting.
Yield: 12 cupcakes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 30 minutes

Butter cream icing recipe - http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/3315/Recipe.cfm

For your paragraph please include the following (remember nothing is ever perfect):

• What went well
• What did not go so well
• What you would change if you were to make this recipe again
• The imprtance of using exact measurements when baking

Here are the multiples of pictures taken on decorating day!