Today I decided to share with you my take on St. Patrick’s Day Sweets.
I always wanted to try something “Andy Warhol“, and now that I decided to post the photos I should add I’m little afraid of how is it going to come across and if it will be accepted by my audience; to tell the truth I came to love it. It is so vibrant and surprisingly these bold color choices fill me with energy and I had a great deal of fun making these.
There are few other things that I made and I will show them off hopefully later this week, so stay tuned for more, for now it is all about St. Patrick’s Day , Andy Warhol style.:-)
COOKIES
I made Chocolate Cookies, Royal Icing which I heavily flavored with Orange extract( I love the chocolate orange combo).
Don’t be fooled by the perfect shamrocks on the cookies, those are RIT-royal icing transfers. They certainly saved my sanity, I could never piped them so perfectly, each one of them!
You can learn more about RIT here. Little sparkle on the shamrocks comes from the disco dust, I just sparingly sprinkled some on while icing on the shamrocks was still wet.
CUPCAKES
Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting
2 packages of cream cheese
1stick of room temperature butter
2 + cups of powdered sugar(use more if desired)
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsp vanilla bean paste
1tbl milk or heavy cream
food color to tint the icing to desired color
Mix cream cheese until smooth, add butter and mix until smooth, add powdered sugar and mix on low speed until combined, increase the speed and beat for 2 minutes until smooth, add vanilla extract and vanilla bean, add milk or heavy cream and beat until smooth, tint with food coloring and decorate your cupcakes. If frosting gets too soft, chill it for 15 minutes, if you leave it longer it may get too hard to pipe.
Decorations on the Cupcakes are Royal Icing Transfers that I made few days ago.
I use a little bit of royal icing to attach them to the cupcake frosting.
I hope you enjoyed my Andy Warhol inspired St. Patrick’s Day Sweets.
Have a great week everyone.
Jana says
March 17, 2011 at 4:22 pmWonderful colors! I just love your cupcakes Hani!
cookies and cups says
March 16, 2011 at 12:29 pmlove those bright colors!!
Diane {Created by Diane} says
March 15, 2011 at 8:08 pmBeautiful!
Cristin (Pinkie) says
March 15, 2011 at 7:37 pmThese are so fun Hani! I love the colors being so incredibly vibrant! I especially loved the cookies in the background. I'd love it if you did a tutorial on your royal icing transfers if you find the time. Thanks for sharing!
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Riedha says
March 15, 2011 at 1:06 pmHi! may I know how many grams 1 stick of butter and 2 packages of cream cheese?
thx 🙂
clarinette says
March 15, 2011 at 12:14 pmabsolutely gorgious !!!!
navygreen says
March 15, 2011 at 8:03 amI love your sweets! I think the bright, vivid colors is VERY fitting for St. Patrick's Day, too – after all, isn't it also about rainbows?! 🙂
Sue says
March 15, 2011 at 3:42 amI LOVE the colors too! They all look fantastic, but the cookies are my favorites(especially in the overhead shot), Hani! Good call on the color choices:)
Linda V @ Bubble and Sweet says
March 15, 2011 at 3:04 amVery vibrant and striking. Mmmmm the chocolate chip cupcakes do sound delish and I can't think of a better frosting than cream cheese.
Glory says
March 14, 2011 at 11:51 pmSuch a gorgeous set of sweets!! Beautiful job Haniela!!
Anonymous says
March 14, 2011 at 11:42 pmI LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors!! They are so bright, and absolutely perfect for this "near spring" time of year!
Lisa Smiley says
March 14, 2011 at 11:31 pmumm, yah you could have piped them so perfectly..probably better, girl! love these. want one now!
Cookies Cakes and Confections says
March 14, 2011 at 11:13 pmSimply beautiful! I would love to spend a "baking" day with you. 🙂
I've got cookie decorating down…now on to cupcakes. Where oh where do I begin? You make it look so easy. Any advise or suggestions would be appreciated.
Kimberly
kcrabtree@cablelynx.com
missy says
March 14, 2011 at 10:21 pmGirl, these are awesome and so fun!! I think I may dump the traditional stuff I was going to take to work and make these cookies…love them!