I recently purchased this book and going through Clara's blog one day at http://iheartcuppycakes.wordpress.com, I discovered she had started and then abandoned the 500 cupcake challenge. (http://iheartcuppycakes.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/500-cupcake-challenge/). So .. I decided to convince her to start once again. And so she and I will be starting at the beginning of the month and anyone else is welcome to jump on the bandwagon.
Here are some rules that I've thought of:
- Participants would have to own the book 500 cupcakes by Fergel Connolly.
- We could post any time during the first half of the month. Posting times will be flexible initially - we could change the rule if/as the challenge grows.
- Participants would have to have a blog to post baking experiences on.
- We could start with Recipe #1 on page 19 - which makes it easier to keep track.
- We could substitute ingredients/improvise if suddenly out of an ingredient.
That's really it, I can't think of anything else.
However, I have to note here that I've tried a few recipes from the book and so far the 2-3 I tried were exactly the same except for frosting. So it may not be worth it to make each and every one? We'll have to see as we go along, I guess.
3 comments:
Sounds good to me! I might opt out of the first one if I can't find substitutions for semolina and almond meal. I don't use those ingredients much. Definitely will be up for October - vanilla cupcake! Easy Peasy!
/Clara
I have no idea what the substitutions for either would be - though I think you'd really compromise the taste and texture if you skimp on either or both ingredients. Semolina would probably give the cupcake a softer and maybe moister texture (since there's orange juice involved as well). Let me see if I can come up with substitutes for you.
Love it all! Cant wait to try the Lasagne recipe and am going to get that cupcake book myself!
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