The old saying goes 'Every day is a school day' and this was true on Friday. I learnt that powder food dye is not so good, it tried it's hardest, but was not vivid enough. The cupcakes were baked, cooled and iced. I then spent at least an hour or two fiddling around with teeny tiny stars, cutting them out and painting them individually with gold paint mixed from the powder I had bought that day. It was gone 11pm when I gave up, they just weren't bright enough. By this point I was seeing stars myself as we had got up that day for work at 5.30am. If I were going for subtle, antique hints, then these stars would be just the thing- but I was after something more bling, more fireworky.
Darling boy then saw fit to wake up at 5am...he took some convincing to go back to sleep and although he did for a while, he then woke up again and by 6am, he had decided actually it was time to get up. Handsome husband got up with Darling boy, and I decided since I was awake, I may as well trot downstairs and apply a second coat of gold paint to the stars.
After going back to bed for a snooze, I got up and looked at the stars again, and I still wasn't happy. So I zoomed to the local cake supplies shop as soon as they opened to buy what I had wanted in the first place, sugar flair pastes have such a rich vivid colour. 'Autumn leaf' won the day and I zoomed back home and remade the stars. Arranged onto the cupcakes and sprinkled with glitter, I was hoping they would fit the bill.
Bright vivid colours had been requested and when I dropped them off, my new clients seemed really happy- which makes me happy too.
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