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Pokeball Cupcakes!

It's been ages (in my definition) since I last baked, what with the 3 weeks in UK and the prep weeks before that. I wanted the kids to help out in some way, so I enticed them by making pokeball frosting, and also using hundreds and thousands sprinkles.

I made the cakes on Saturday evening, a simple whisk using my Kenwood and a repeat of the Moist Banana Cake with Yoghurt though I substituted yoghurt with milk + cream + apple cider vinegar. The cake batter is a lot, I got 15 cupcakes + 1 Hello Kitty cake.


We frosted 9 cupcakes as pokeballs, and the rest with the balance of cream cheese frosting and added hundreds and thousands. My frosting wasn't stiff enough and I wonder why. Maybe I shouldn't have added the lil bit of whipping cream. I used 125g butter + 250g cream cheese + about 3-4 cups of icing sugar. Maybe I should reduce the butter next time.

Junior did the black lines on the pokeballs, he didn't want to frost the red (pink actually) and the white. He also put the sprinkles on the other cupcakes.


He was so proud of his work!


He got Abah to eat one of the spinkles one, and one pokeball at night. HAHAHA. Demi anak. 


Kitty cake. Previously I used purely whipped cream and the black ink smudged. Cream cheese is better to keep the colours. Princess wants to cut cake initially, but she changed her mind.
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