My cupcake fondant designs

Cupcake Central Masterclass & Peach-Water.com Giveaway Competition

February 22, 2012 · by Peach-Water · in ,

Winners Announcement:

Thank you very very much to all the participants for taking your time in entering my giveaway competition. To ensure that the winners were chosen fairly, I have filmed how I chose the winners.
In short, I assigned everyone to a number on a First Come First Servce basis, and then I used randomizer.org to generate a random number. The winners to the competition are as follows:

Congratulations

to:
Mimi Yo: She won 1st Prize; and
Emma: She won 2nd Prize

Please watch the video below to see how I chose the winner for the Giveaway Competition.

 

 

***competition is now closed. please check back Saturday 10th March 2012 for announcement of competition’s winner :)***

Dear Peach-Water.com visitors,

I will be interrupting my normal food blog schedule, with this very special blog post.
This blog post is about my experience at the Cupcake Central Masterclass and also my very first giveaway competition for peach-water.com.
This is in celebration of my blog’s 6th month anniversary. I hope you all enjoy this blog post.

Thank you once again!
Peach-water xo

P.S: ***Please be sure to read to the very end, to find out how to enter in my very first giveaway competition for Peach-Water.com!***

Disclaimer:

1. Coming from a multimedia design background, I have a strong passion and enjoyment in drawing, video production, blogging and web design etc.
Therefore this entire entry is done out of my passion and love for both food and design. I was not paid by Cupcake Central or received any benefits of any kind, to write this post.

2. Cupcake Central held a twitter competition where one lucky winner can attend a cupcake central master class by tweeting to Cupcake Central why they want to learn to bake cupcakes? (My response: @cupcake_central I want to attend the master class because I’m a foodie n I don’t know how to bake!)
Initially there was a winner chosen by Sheryl, however the people were unable to attend. Sheryl had then contacted me via twitter asking whether I would like to attend. Of course my answer was yes! She had chosen me based on my passion for food and for being courteous to her all the time on twitter.

Please do not judge this entry as a PR entry, because it isn’t. All my entries on Peach-Water.com are written in honesty and my true belief of what I think of the food.
As an appreciation to the effort and great service from Sheryl and her team members, I felt compelled to write this entry to promote her business and food to my visitors.
I have tried many cupcakes from many stores around Melbourne and by far Cupcake Central’s cupcakes and service have always been consistent.

Part 1 – Attending Cupcake Central’s MasterClass

So I was super excited when Sheryl contacted me asking whether I would like to attend to her Cupcake Central MasterClass. I couldn’t really contain my excitement, because I’ve always wanted to learn to bake.

Coming from a family where we use the stovetop on a very frequent basis than the oven, my dearest mother felt that the oven could be used as a storage compartment (don’t ask me why -_-)
To my very horror, I almost burned the whole house down, only because there was a polystyrene tray in the oven! My kitchen ended up being covered in a lot of soot. Hence, my first time baking experience was a nightmare!
The second time, I was in the kitchen trying to bake cupcakes; following the instructions from a book given to me for my birthday by my best friend… well lets just say the cupcake ended up very very strange where the top of the cupcake was super crunchy and the bottom of the cupcakes were still very much undercooked.

Just for fun, I produced this short youtube video on the day using my iphone 4S. It’s a short video introduction on the cupcakes at Cupcake Central, and what I learned at the Master Class.

So what exactly did I learn in the MasterClass?

  • How to bake quality cupcakes and how to make them look AWESOME;
  • Techniques on how to ensure that each cupcake are the same size;
  • How to line your cupcake tins super quickly;
  • How to decorate cupcakes using fondant;
  • How to pipe icing onto cupcakes;
  • Secretly learn from Tin that it’s Cupcake Central’s way of recruiting the best cupcake decorators for their store :P

I definitely had a great time getting to meet Sheryl finally in person, and also getting to learn how to bake cupcakes.

I’m really glad that Sheryl has the vision of teaching others who are wanting to learn how to bake cupcakes, as she believes that cupcakes are one of the easiest things to make and that there shouldn’t be any secrets on making them.

Flour

Flour

Mixing butter into flour mixture

Mixing butter into flour mixture

For those who are health conscious, don’t look! Yes, cupcakes requires fat! It makes it soft, moist and improves the colour. And also makes it yummy – probably not good for the waistline!
Cupcake Central uses New Zealand butter – richest taste
Cupcake Central also uses free range eggs for ethical reasons – which I personally agree to!

Mix, mix, and mix :)

Mix, mix, and mix :)

Vanilla mixture

Vanilla mixture

Once the mixture is mixed thoroughly, it’s time to scoop the batter into the cupcake cases.

Lining cupcake tin

Lining cupcake tin

We learned how to quickly line the tins. Imagine having to do that slowly one by one.

Nearly done! Just need to swap the tin around to make sure it’s cooked evenly.

Vanilla cupcakes out of oven for a turn around

Vanilla cupcakes out of oven for a turn around

Now time to make my favourite cupcakes – The super moist red velvet cupcakes!

Red Velvet mixture

Red Velvet mixture

The reason why the mixture is red is because in Southern America they make cupcakes for special occasions.

Look how red!

Look how red!

Red Velvet cupcake batter mixture

Red Velvet cupcake batter mixture

Cupcake cases being filled up

Cupcake cases being filled up

The trick in scooping the right amount of cupcakes each time is to use ice-cream scoops!

Techniques to have same amount of batter each time!

Techniques to have same amount of batter each time!

Time to decorate! Here are the cookie cutters that Cupcake Central uses, and the different decorations that can be used on the cupcakes!

Decorating time!

Decorating time!

Decorations!

Decorations!

Sheryl preparing the fondant and colouring the fondant for us to make our decorations.

Fondant

Fondant

Here are my humble little cupcake decorations. I wasn’t feeling super creative that day as you can see -_-. At the very last minute I saw a sausage dog cookie cutter. Then I felt a little naughty and placed little chocolate pieces underneath it :P Oh, and can you see the special decoration i made for peach water? :)

My cupcake fondant designs

My cupcake fondant designs

Once we finished making the cupcakes, Sheryl made coffee for us (they sell coffee in store). Us 5 girls sat there chatting and eating our freshly baked cupcakes (i love the red velvet cupcakes! super moist), and Sheryl brought out the coffee for us < ;3

Straight out of oven for tasting

Straight out of oven for tasting

Soy Latte

Soy Latte

After our coffee, Sheryl taught us techniques on how to pipe icing onto the cupcakes. I felt a little un-coordinated but I eventually became used to it! Real fun :D

Piping Icing

Piping Icing

The cupcake below is obviously Sheryl’s work of art! talented right? :)

Sheryl's awesome flower design

Sheryl's awesome flower design

And… TA DA!!!!!!! here are my finished cupcakes :D
Within one hour all my cupcakes were GONE. I delivered them to my colleagues at work that day (poor things, had to work on Sunday :(), and I also went and delivered one to my friend Marlon ^_^.

My finished decorated cupcakes <;3

My finished decorated cupcakes < ;3

Here are some photos on the cupcakes that were decorated by the other girls. Aren’t they creative? :D

Other girl's designs!

Other girl's decorated cupcakes

More cupcake designs

Jess's cupcake designs

Another girl's cupcake designs

Another girl's cupcake designs

Part 2

This month is peach-water.com’s 6th month anniversary. Time has definitely flown past so quickly, that I really cant believe I started this blog back in August. It has definitely been quite a long journey for me, but I’m having fun, and would like to continue writing these blog entries for as long as I can.

As such, I would like to announce a giveaway competition to thank all my visitors, both new and returning visitors, and also my friends, family and foodie partners who have contributed to this humble blog of mine. So please, have a look at the photo below on how to enter into the give away competition. :)

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Competition details:

Prizes:
1st: $45.00 gift voucher to spend at Cupcake Central
2nd: Cupcake Central Collectable lunchbox baking tin – containing cupcake baking ingredients valued at $29.95

How to enter:
1. Like my facebook fanpage, which can be done on the side bar facebook widget AND
2. Comment on the blog entry below on your favourite restaurant and why.

Terms and Conditions:
1. One entry per person
2. Open to Melbourne residents only
3. Prizes are not redeemable for cash
4. Gift voucher is valid for a year
5. Winners will be notified by email – so please use your real email address. If winner does not respond via email within 24 hours, a new winner will be chosen.
6. Winners will be chosen at random using randomizer.org
7. Giveaway competition ends on 8th of March 2012 Midnight Australian Eastern Standard time (Melbourne time).
8. Winners drawn on 10th of March 2012.

Good luck!

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