Taste: ***| Presentation: ***1/2
This weeks cupcake is a festive one resembling the North Pole itself; a vanilla cake topped with red and white swirled vanilla frosting, all dusted with peppermint.
The Panel:
The judges really expressed an appreciation for the swirl of colours mocking a candy cane in this week's creation. There was the usual mixture of moist/dry comments, but overall the panel agreed, "more peppermint!"
Diana: "Left much to be desired."
Sweet Pea: "This cupcake was good, but it was just good. I've had better cupcake creations from Kizmet."
Shannah: "If looking for a nice vanilla cupcake it was quite delicious."
My comments: What I did here was attempt to flavour the cakes using ONLY candy canes, no extracts. In an attempt to create candy cane bits I accidentally created candy cane dust which I then incorporated into the batter but it seems to have gotten lost. The frosting itself was going to be vanilla but this really hurt the end result as more peppermint ANYWHERE would have saved it. Very disappointed with this week's creation. Note to self, use peppermint extract in the future!