'Cheer Up' Cupcakes

A friend of ours was feeling a bit down in the dumps, so we thought we'd cheer her up with some cupcakes.

After all, cupcakes cheer everyone up!

We just used the basic cupcake recipe, adding chocolate chips to the mixture. They were in the oven for not very long (20 minutes I believe) at 180°.

For the frosting, simple butter cream was used (icing sugar and butter/margarine), we then used blue, pink and black food colouring. And red and blue together for the purple!

To finish them off, pretty pink sprinkles and silver balls were used. Yum.

We also used the remaining cupcakes (there were 4 left...they were for personal usage, ahem), half were peppermint (green food colouring and peppermint flavouring) and the other half were orange. I think it's obvious that we used orange colouring and orange flavouring!

Anyway, there we go. The first blog post. Expect many many more.

Hayley, one half of J'adore Les Cupcakes

xx