Food that looks like what it isn’t is incredibly fun to make. Eating the creation can be an odd experience – I mean, biting into something that looks like a meatball but tastes like chocolate can be a shock – but the decorating and viewing process is the real point of the exercise.
I’ve passed my love of weird looking food to our son, Eric, and he’s already bought me two cookbooks featuring outlandish cupcakes. He loves the challenge of making cupcakes that look like they should be served on April Fool's Day. The results of our experiments can be seen in the photos on the left. If you haven’t guessed, that is our attempts at spaghetti and meatballs, a scarecrow and apples. We once tried making popcorn-like cupcakes, but we quickly ran out of enthusiasm for cutting several hundred marshmallows into quarters and gluing them together with frosting. Even we have our limits.
For those brave enough to eat our creations, the cupcakes piled high with more frosting than cake are sugar highs just waiting to happen.
The Boy Scout mother-son bake off is being held in early December this year and we’re ready to show our decorating talents. Eric has decided our project should be reindeer cupcakes surrounded by holly leaves painted with green icing.
Oh deer/dear! Hope the Boy Scouts like frosting...lots of frosting.