Icing tips and Buttercream

I've been using buttercream and boiled frosting for years now. If i have to choose, ill still choose liquid frosting (royal icing, butter cream and boiled icing)over fondant. I love decorating cupcakes with buttercream while using different icing tips. 

There are different icing tips available on the market. 

(I personally buy in sweetcraft or chocolate lovers castle) 

Rainbows Frosting and Rainbow Cake

Brilliant Rainbow Frosting Idea. Your colors will depend on how dark you want it to be. Sometimes i do lighter versions of the rainbow colors.

You can also try this technique:

How to Make Rainbow Cupcakes

If there's one thing i love more than rainy days, it's definitely rainbow days. I've always been a fan of the colors of the rainbow. ROYGBIV, i know it's colors by heart. For me, the rainbow is a symbol of happiness and it also brings back memories of me and my sisters when we were young. 


Anyway, since i'm super duper fond of rainbows i make sure to make rainbow cakes and cupcakes once in awhile.
NOTE: This cake contains happiness. When i bring rainbow cupcakes to friends they always seem to go "oohh" "ahhhh", "how did you do this?", "i love the color combination" and the compliment goes on and on.


Sometimes I struggle with what I want to bake and bring to parties. There are so many things that factor into my decision: portability, travel-bility, allergies, in/formality of event, age group of dessert eaters etc etc. But this time I knew exactly what I wanted to make. So I threw caution to the wind. I didn’t even think twice about it. Whenever i feel confused on what to bring, i always go for rainbow cupcakes with frosting. Trust me, it won't let you down. 


Let me share one of my favorite cupcake recipe of all times.

Mass wedding and Devotion

My husband and i have been married for 28 months now.That's 2 years and 4 months. Unlike most of my friend, i didn't have a grand wedding, because hubby and i couldn't afford something grand during those times. I was 8 months pregnant when we tied the knot and we really didnt have much time to plan a wedding. I kind of like broke the news to my parents on June, hubby converted to Roman Catholic in July and my sisters arrived in august and hubby put a ring on my finger in September 8.

Hubby and i participated in the mass wedding held by our shrine every once in awhile. We got married on September.08 together with 6 or 8 other couples. It was a very intimate celebration because only our families were present during that day. I had the most number of guests compared to other couples and we celebrated our reception at Bread Box which is located a few steps from the parish.

Like i always say to my friends, "wedding is not the same with marriage" getting married is easy while maintaining a marriage is a alot of work. I am really thankful that God blessed me with such a wonderful partner. I could not ask for more.

Last december.08.2011 our parish held a kasalang bayan for 7 couples. I really wanted to give something to the participants so i decided to bake them a cake. I bought cake mixes, and then i frosted them with buttercream and i also made some roses out of the excess butter cream.

For the butter cream recipe, i've been using wilton's recipe for years. You can check it out HERE

and Finally, i was able to used my sisters christmas gift Wilton design pattern press set.

If you are curious about the mass wedding, you can call National Shrine of the Sacred Heart and they'll be more than willing to answer all your concerns.

Till death do us part!

Happy Baking,

Dina