{"id":315,"date":"2012-02-06T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-07-03T20:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T04:07:51","slug":"musical-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/musical-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been in a Valentine’s baking frenzy the past few weeks. How can I not be with all the cute Valentine’s themed cookies, cakes, pies, dessert tables ,& parties floating around. I wish I could bake all day long and have a HUGE party for all my friends. I had to snap myself out of the frenzy when I got a call requesting cupcakes for a birthday dinner.\u00a0 For a second I was stumped, my brain has been so focused on Valentine’s Day treats I almost forgot that it was possible to have a birthday or any other type of celebration in February.<\/p>\n

The request was last minute and in the middle of a crazy snow storm, the kind that dumps 5 inches of snow per hour, so I had to work with what I had on hand. Thankfully the requester, who is also my very talented hair stylist, wasn’t very picky about flavors or decorations. She did mention that her friend was a music lover so I wanted to try and incorporate a musical theme. I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it; the only decorations I knew I had on hand were kissing lips and pink & red hearts.\u00a0 I wanted to make some notes for toppers, but my gum paste\u00a0 had all been colored pink and red.<\/p>\n

We agreed on chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. While pulling out the cupcake\u00a0 ingredients, I stumbled white chocolate. Suddenly a light went off in my head…make the notes out of white chocolate and coat them with black sugar.\u00a0 So I crossed my fingers and hoped it would all come together with no glitches.<\/p>\n

To make the notes, I melted the chocolate and poured into a small squeeze bottle fitted with a #3 tip. I piped the notes on to wax paper and then covered them with the black sugar.\u00a0 In order to fully cover the chocolate I really poured the sugar on thick.\"\"<\/a>I made sure to pipe out more notes than I needed for the cupcakes, in case some broke when removing them from the wax paper or in case some were just down right ugly.\u00a0 I\u00a0 piped out a few that I didn’t sugar so i could test them from time to time to see if the notes had hardened. It took about 4 hours for the chocolate to harden. This time will vary depending humidity. I live in a rain forest and it was a snowy day so it took longer than I expected.<\/p>\n

Once they hardened, I dumped the excess sugar off the notes & carefully removed them from the paper. \"\"<\/a>I was pretty bummed that the sugar didn’t stick to the treble clef better. I think it would have looked great on one of the cupcakes. Once the cupcakes were frosted I placed the notes on top.\u00a0 For something I whipped up on the fly, I think they turned out to be pretty cute.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s the recipe for the cupcakes and frosting.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been in a Valentine’s baking frenzy the past few weeks. How can I not be with all the cute Valentine’s themed cookies, cakes, pies, dessert tables ,& parties floating around. I wish I could bake all day long and have a HUGE party for all my friends. I had to snap myself out of … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,14],"tags":[19,30,29,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djssugarshack.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}