So, to celebrate, I decided to finally try to make some soap cupcakes. I found an awesome sale on cake decorating supplies at Joann Fabrics and bought a bunch of stuff earlier this week to use as "soap only" decorating. I had some Hot Chocolate FO from Brambleberry and some green sea clay I wanted to try out. My recipe was supposed to make 6 cupcakes, using 25 oz of oils.
I used the FO for the base of the cupcakes, since it will discolor them to a nice dark brown. I poured out about 18 oz of the soap batter for the base and mixed in only the FO, no additional colorants. Already, you can see the discoloration from the FO:
The batter I poured was enough for 7 bases, but I didn't use enough of the "frosting", so I had enough left over for an extremely ugly cupcake.
The color was not as vibrant as I had wanted, so I found some body-safe pink glitter and sprayed the tops of this cake. Now the cupcake is a weird patina color and looks kind of slimy. Another soap that is definitely going into my personal stash :)
I tried poppy seeds on a couple, both for some extra exfoliation and some visual interest (read: to cover up the poor job I did on piping...)
~Chrissy
I know what you mean. I was super happy when my blog had 100 views :)
ReplyDeleteYour cup cake soaps with poppy seeds are so cute. I´ve made cup cake soaps two times but I can´t pipe at all :D
Congrats on reaching 1,000 views, Chrissy! Your soap cupcakes are super cute. I love BB's Hot Cocoa FO (I was a little surprised when it turned my batter pink, but it quickly went brown), and I'll bet it's great with peppermint.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marika and Jenny! I am pretty proud of my milestone. Also, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed making these cupcakes. I've held off on trying them because I thought everyone else was doing them, etc. However, since I've been working on eating healthier and minding the simple carbs I've been eating, this was a really fun way for me to bake again without worrying about the impact to my hips :)
ReplyDeleteJenny - that pink color surprised me, too. I knew it'd discolor, but I had assumed it would turn a tan color as it was morphing. I'm going to keep the faith that it will be the brown I was looking for eventually!
Congratulations on 1000 page views Chrissy! Your cupcakes are so cute, it looks like you were having a lot of fun experimenting! Hot chocolate and peppermint sounds like such a nice combination =)
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