Piping Buttercream onto Cupcakes

Piping some homemade buttercream onto cookie dough cupcakes. Brought them to a "Cat in the Hat" themed playdate at the park for children. You don't have to have awesome decorating skills, can do color and decorate in a simple manner.

Recipe for the cucpakes, my twitter and blog links are below:

http://www.twitter.com/BakingbyMSC

http://tastingmysweetcreations.blogspot.com/

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-Dough--Cupcake--The-BEST-C...

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Entertainment

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• Buttercream
• Piping
• Cupcakes
• Yellow Cake
• Dr. Seuss
• Dr. Suess
• Cat in the Hat
• Theme
• Decorating
• Wilton
• MSC
• MySweetCreations
• Red
• White
• Blue
• Fourth of July Decorating
• Cake Decorating

[zikr100]

nice and simple for beginners like me

[MakingSweetCreations]

@zikr100 That is what I was going for. I know a lot of people turn to YouTube for basics like this, I did and still do too!  :)

[zikr100]

@MakingSweetCreations can i have your buttercream recipe please and what brand food colour do you use, also do you use a electric hand whisk

[MakingSweetCreations]

@zikr100 I use the Wilton gel colors, you can get them at Michael's. The coloring is much better than a grocery store liquid coloring and they offer a nice variety of colors. Most of the time I use my electric hand mixer for icing.

[gpworx]

How do you bake your cupcakes so perfectly?

[MakingSweetCreations]

@gpworx I use a cookie scoop to measure the batter evenly into the cups and I tend to fill mine more than normal so they bake up just past the liners. I hope that helps!

[zikr100]

@gpworx the heat in the oven may not be even thats y they might be going brown, use a piping bag to put the mix in the cupcake cases that will make them even and not lob sided,hope that helps

[zikr100]

@MakingSweetCreations and can i have the buttercream recipe plz, is michaels a store in the uk or can i buy them of the net

[mojoribs]

Buttercream recipe? its so perfect

[gpworx]

@MakingSweetCreations Mine always lightly turn brown (when making vanilla) on certain spots and sometimes they go lob sided... I dont know how to fix this... can you do a tutorial