Tablescape Center Piece Mini Cakes Three Ways

Name: Tablescape Center Piece Mini Cakes Three Ways
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 38
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 300 milliliters buttermilk; 240 grams confectioners sugar, divided; 1 Tbsp lemon juice; 38 servings Red and blue food coloring; 516 grams box vanilla cake mix; 454 grams vanilla frosting

If you want to add more Southern recipes to your recipe box, Tablescape Center Piece Mini Cakes Three Ways might be a recipe you should try. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 130 calories. This recipe serves 38. A mixture of vanilla cake mix, confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. It works best as a dessert, and is done in about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Special equipment: 8 (2-inch) mini brioche tins 8 (3-inch) mini brioche tins 1 (24 count) cupcake tin 24 white cupcake liners Pastry bag, or resealable zip top bags Round pastry tip (number 804 or similar) 4 store bought rectangular petit fours (lavender in color) Purple flowered cupcake paper covers Small 3 tiered silver dessert stand Sprigs lavender, fresh or dried Edible glitter (available at craft and baking supply stores)

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Fresh Lavender

Brioche

Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Pastry Bag

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Spray the mini brioche tins with nonstick cooking spray. Lightly dust with flour and place on a sheet tray. Line cupcake tin with white paper liners.

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Cooking Spray

Brioche

Cupcakes

All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Prepare the cake mix according to package instructions, substituting the buttermilk for the water in recipe. Fill the brioche tins and cupcakes 2/3 of the way to the top. You should get about 18 cupcakes.

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Buttermilk

Cake Mix

Cupcakes

Brioche

Water

Bake, rotating pans halfway, until tops are golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Brioche tins will take about 8 to 10 minutes, cupcakes will take 12 to 15 minutes.

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Cupcakes

Brioche

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove from the oven and cool 5 minutes before unmolding and cooling completely on a wire cooling rack.

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Wire Rack

Oven

Combine 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar with enough lemon juice to form a thin glaze about the consistency of syrup. Dye with equal amounts of red and blue food coloring until the desired lavender color is reached.

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Powdered Sugar

Blue Food Color

Lemon Juice

Fresh Lavender

Syrup

Place the cakes upside down on a cooling rack fitted inside a sheet tray.

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Wire Rack

Pour the icing over the top of the cakes, allowing it to drip down the sides and completely coat the cake. Allow to set up.

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Icing

Meanwhile, mix enough of the confectioner's sugar (1/4 to 1/3 cup) for the icing to thicken; it should be about the consistency of pancake batter.

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Icing

Sugar

Add an additional drop or 2 of each food coloring to deepen the color.

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Food Color

Place the icing in a small zip top bag and snip the corner. Pipe just over the top of the fluted cake, allowing it to drip down the sides.

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Icing

To make the frosting for the cupcakes, combine the can of vanilla frosting with enough of the remaining confectioners' sugar to stiffen slightly and allow the frosting hold a shape when piped. Color with equal amounts of red and blue food coloring to the desired lavender color.

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Powdered Sugar

Blue Food Color

Frosting

Cupcakes

Fresh Lavender

Place in a pastry bag or a resealable zip top bag fitted with a round pastry tip. Put 12 cupcakes into lavender cupcake covers. Pipe the frosting on top, holding the tip just above surface of the cupcake and raising slightly as you squeeze to form a ball of frosting.

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Cupcakes

Frosting

Fresh Lavender

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Pastry Bag

Place the cupcakes evenly spaced on the largest bottom tier and top each with a small sprig of lavender. On the middle tier arrange the fluted cakes evenly. On the top tier place 4 store bought petit fours. Once on the table, sprinkle the whole stand with edible glitter.

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Cupcakes

Fresh Lavender

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Ingredients

Servings:

300milliliters

buttermilk 240grams

confectioners' sugar, divided 1Tbsp

lemon juice 38servings

Red and blue food coloring 516grams

box vanilla cake mix 454grams

vanilla frosting

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Port, Moscato Dasti

Cake works really well with Cream Sherry, Port, and Moscato d'Asti. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. You could try Berlucchi Franciacorta '61 Extra Brut. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.3 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 34 dollars per bottle.

Berlucchi Franciacorta '61 Extra Brut

Extra Brut '61 is a tribute to the birth of Franciacorta in 1961—the year Berlucchi produced the first of this classic method sparkling wine. This fun and lively sparkler offers citrus fruit and a crisp, clean finish.Blend: 85% Chardonnay, 15% Pinot Nero*The label for Franciacorta '61 Extra Brut is in the process of changing. You may receive either of these two labels featured above. Specific labels cannot be requested.