{"id":3474,"date":"2011-07-20T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/20\/these-are-probably-the-worst-cupcakes-in-london"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:28:00","slug":"these-are-probably-the-worst-cupcakes-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"These are probably the worst cupcakes in London."},"content":{"rendered":"

I let my two-year-old pick the next cupcake project from the book, and of course she had to pick one of the most complicated. So, here are the results:<\/p>\n

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First, I had to sculpt a realistic corpse finger from marzipan. The author of the book suggested ivory food coloring, but that looked a little too fresh, so I used a teensy bit of yellow and a teensy bit of brown. Then, using my own natural sculpting talents and a ton of willpower to not just start shoving marzipan into my mouth by the handful, I made those corpse fingers, damnit:<\/div>\n
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The nails got a brush with piping gel. As per the instructions, I set them aside in an airtight container while I whipped up a batch of chocolate cupcakes.<\/p>\n

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It took literally all my willpower not to leave this…<\/div>\n
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…on top of the trashcans at the funeral home down the street. But I managed.<\/div>\n
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After the cupcakes were cooled and vanilla frosted, it was time to make some marzipan pie lids. I finished construction while singing along to “The Worst Pies in London”, “A Little Priest”, “God That’s Good” and “Joanna”. The Patti LuPone\/George Hearn version, of course. After a little experimentation with methods (though the book instructs you to put the entire thing together before decorating with luster dust, I found it was easier to brush them with gel food coloring for better contrast and then<\/i> put the entire thing together) and thickness of marzipan, I they came out looking more or less all like this:<\/div>\n
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They were a hit with the kids, and bigger hit with me, since the kids didn’t want to eat the marzipan fingers and gave them to me.<\/div>\n
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I am surprisingly enjoying the aesthetics of them sitting on my baking rack in little rows. It’s like a bunch of cupcakes flipping me off every time I walk past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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