"Mom these are just cupcakes not entire cakes! So they are way easier!", we thought. And we thought wrong. Our first order was a bunch of 50 cupcakes, all chocolate buttercream. We got home after work, picked up a few supplies on our way home and started baking. This was a huge order compared to our usual baking sizes of 12-14 cupcakes. The pick up time was 11:00pm in the night, and we had a long way to go. We got the flour, butter, sugar, eggs all out and started. We put the first batch in, waited it to cool, got the second batch in and started frosting the first. It was like an assembly line production. And people who watched us work saw the tension on our faces! It was our first order and it had to be perfect!
We tasted the batter, we tasted the frosting, oh! we tasted everything! Im sure both of us had 6 kgs of sugar & butter mixture each in our bodies and chocolate that equals 3 bars of Cadbury each! After five whole batches, of chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream, we had chocolate on our clothes and our faces.
Our first order was pure hard work and sheer resilience! When we packed the boxes and stuck a personalized note on the box, we sat down and looked each other and smiled. Roopa finally heated some food and we sat and ate out of the same plate, exhausted, but excited on how our first order will be received. If anyone offered us a chocolate at that moment we would have cried at the sight of it.
This delivery was to go all the way to Bangalore, so we packaged it well and hoped that there was no turbulence in mid-air. We received our payment yesterday and got a friend to take a picture of us! Yes, we can be embarrassing sometimes! The folks in Bangalore loved it and nothing could please us more :)
Here's a picture of a couple of them from that delivery:
We baked tons this week. After the chocolate chocolate order we had a friends birthday and he is a football fan, so we baked him football cupcakes which had green grass frosting and a chocolate football which we designed! The recipe we used for these cupcakes was a little crunchy on the top, so when you bite into the cupcake you will taste the chocolate ganache icing and then the little brownie crunch and then the heavenly dark chocolate cake. The guys at the party loved it. We will soon upload pictures of those cupcakes, look out for updates on our site!
Our next baking assignment was for three friends! One was a guy who helped us with the very first pictures on our site! His sister is expecting, so we made a box of half pink and half blue cupcakes! The pink cupcakes was our first try with raspberry frosting! The heat in Hyderabad caused it to melt, but thankfully we refrigerated it immediately after it was on the cupcakes, so they looked and tasted delightful! For another very very gracious friend who designed our logo (you will all soon see it on our website and here) we sent a box of absolutely awesome looking cupcakes with cute designs, we tried hard to not eat them ourselves! For the third friend who was going home to Bombay and requested for a box, we made a set of delightful colors : yellow, pink, orange, green, blue & purple! We also tried Oreo frosting and though the consistency got a little hard it was perfectly beautiful to eat! We learnt a secret on how to keep it looking fresh and tasty and will try it with our next batch :)
We finally decided it was time to take some time off and give the baking a rest for two days before we start working on our next orders! So both of us are headed out catching up on IPL matches and movies! Keep reading to know our next updates! For all you Red Velvet fans ~~~~~ you'll be delighted soon!
This week has been full of baking for friends and we've enjoyed it! There's quote on friends and cupcakes:
Friends are like Cupcakes in my pantry of memories.
Definitely holds true for us!
Love,
Roopa & Nayana
We tasted the batter, we tasted the frosting, oh! we tasted everything! Im sure both of us had 6 kgs of sugar & butter mixture each in our bodies and chocolate that equals 3 bars of Cadbury each! After five whole batches, of chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream, we had chocolate on our clothes and our faces.
Our first order was pure hard work and sheer resilience! When we packed the boxes and stuck a personalized note on the box, we sat down and looked each other and smiled. Roopa finally heated some food and we sat and ate out of the same plate, exhausted, but excited on how our first order will be received. If anyone offered us a chocolate at that moment we would have cried at the sight of it.
This delivery was to go all the way to Bangalore, so we packaged it well and hoped that there was no turbulence in mid-air. We received our payment yesterday and got a friend to take a picture of us! Yes, we can be embarrassing sometimes! The folks in Bangalore loved it and nothing could please us more :)
Here's a picture of a couple of them from that delivery:
We baked tons this week. After the chocolate chocolate order we had a friends birthday and he is a football fan, so we baked him football cupcakes which had green grass frosting and a chocolate football which we designed! The recipe we used for these cupcakes was a little crunchy on the top, so when you bite into the cupcake you will taste the chocolate ganache icing and then the little brownie crunch and then the heavenly dark chocolate cake. The guys at the party loved it. We will soon upload pictures of those cupcakes, look out for updates on our site!
Our next baking assignment was for three friends! One was a guy who helped us with the very first pictures on our site! His sister is expecting, so we made a box of half pink and half blue cupcakes! The pink cupcakes was our first try with raspberry frosting! The heat in Hyderabad caused it to melt, but thankfully we refrigerated it immediately after it was on the cupcakes, so they looked and tasted delightful! For another very very gracious friend who designed our logo (you will all soon see it on our website and here) we sent a box of absolutely awesome looking cupcakes with cute designs, we tried hard to not eat them ourselves! For the third friend who was going home to Bombay and requested for a box, we made a set of delightful colors : yellow, pink, orange, green, blue & purple! We also tried Oreo frosting and though the consistency got a little hard it was perfectly beautiful to eat! We learnt a secret on how to keep it looking fresh and tasty and will try it with our next batch :)
We finally decided it was time to take some time off and give the baking a rest for two days before we start working on our next orders! So both of us are headed out catching up on IPL matches and movies! Keep reading to know our next updates! For all you Red Velvet fans ~~~~~ you'll be delighted soon!
This week has been full of baking for friends and we've enjoyed it! There's quote on friends and cupcakes:
Friends are like Cupcakes in my pantry of memories.
Definitely holds true for us!
Love,
Roopa & Nayana
