6. externship update: adapt.

the word of the week @ urban was ADAPT. 

the compressor of our bake case broke, melting all of my cupcakes in it one morning.  trashing cupcakes is always a sad day. & then discovering how to deal with the situation is, well, frustrating.

we tried putting the frosted cupcakes in one of our back fridges.  after a complaint about the cupcakes tasting funny, i tried one.  oh yes, they were freezer burned.  the fridge we had recently inherited was at 35 degrees, & much closer to a freezer than a cooler.

plan # 2: leave the cupcakes out at room temp.  buttercream has so much sugar in it that it is safe to leave it out at room temperature.  safe, yes.  stable at 90-something degrees, not so much.  more melted cupcakes!

plan # 3: new buttercream recipes.  how do you make buttercream more stable?  lots & lots of powdered sugar.  although that resulted in cupcakes a little sweeter than i would like, it worked.  so we put a display cake plate out with our options to entice the sweet tooths of our customers.  you know i love cake plates, so that part made me happy.

we also decided to try a new frosting method.  tom, urban's owner, wants the frosting to cover the entire surface of the cupcake top.  a reasonable request.  i am already using the most gigantic piping tip i can find & it wasn't doing the trick the kiss piping way.  so something new: a happy little swirl atop our cupcakes.

i actually think it's pretty cute.

adapting.

not so bad after all.

oh, the bake case got fixed last night.  & i now get to display my sweets proudly.  yessss.

{cherry limeade cupcakes!}

happy friday, friends!

love love,

kjp.