After reading about English Mum’s Cupcake Challenge and looking at the lovely cakes that others had made, I decided that I fancied trying my hand at making some tasty little works of art.
However, as usual in the Frugal House, things didn’t quite go according to plan. It beats me how everyone makes their cupcake icing look so perfect and why is it when I want my cakes to be quite flat on top they come out huuuuge?
We decided to make mini carrot cakes using the recipe that I followed last weekend (here). We didn’t have any lemons in so I thought we would use lime for the icing….
It didn’t start well when Miss Frugal decided that the mixture looked like sick and refused to even lick the bowl!
And here’s the rest of them:
Excuse the green tinge – it possibly wasn’t the best idea to use lime instead of lemon!