Design Practice: Typogateux

Typogateux: Cymkakes Rgbaked

We went to all the different supermarkets to try and find the cheapest options there is for all of the ingredients we would need, taken from the list for the recipe online. Plus the extra's we knew we would need, such as the flavourings above.

Milk, 49p

Self raising 60p

Caster sugar, 99p

Icing sugar £1.09

Butter, £1.00

Egg, £1.64

Flavourings, 6 - 84p 70p

Colouring, 6 80p

Glitter 85p

White chocolate 96p

Paper muffin cups, £1.00

Sieve £1.00

Parchment paper £1.20

We went for a look at a local muffin/cupcake shop, in the one of the alley ways between the main streets in Leeds, it helped give an idea of what the end product would look like and a better idea of how to pipe on the icing from looking at the way they had on their examples.

All the ingredients + Recipes.

To get organised, we put the ingredients with the recipe they went with, made things alot easier.

These were the first batch we did, the testers, wanting to see how'd they turn out; with no baking experience. They came out rather well, some where are a bit deflated but they tasted really good. These ones were Vanilla and Cyan/blue muffins. The colouring of these took along time because of the size of the batch of them so they needed alot more dye than what we would end up having to use.

Baked Result:

Tastes good.

The buttercream icing was a tough one, it was a bit runny as first we but figured out we just needed to have less butter in the mix and then it came out like cement once it had dried up. This ended up breaking the pump we used to ice the cakes with. Oops.

Icing Result:

Tastes sugary.

We attempted to do our chocolate letters by cutting them with a scalpel, we melted white chocolate in a pyrex dish and then poured it into a trace lined with parchment paper and then froze it, Grace had added milk to the chocolate which made it go a bit running and mank. Even though we tried to cut around it, it was still pretty unusable because it was off.

Attempt 2.

We watched a video on how to create chocolate lace, thinking it would be a good idea to create for these, it'd make the letters alot more unique and delicate. Which ended up been a problem, I'd created and cut a stencil but when they had froze, it was had to break them off the paper without breaking them. Once you had they'd melt really fast when trying to place them onto the cupcakes which was a bit of a problem. They looked good but they we just too delicate in the end it seemed.

Tastes chocolately.

This time we created our final batch of cakes, using all of our colours we calculated how much we'd need for each bowl and colour and then split it all up and coloured them. This was our 2nd batch so far as we were pretty confident on how'd they turn out learning from what happened with the first ones. It turned out to be alot easier to flavour and colour as well taking up alot less drops, the amount to colour each one stayed the same though and some flavours needed to be more potent.

We then did the same for the icing, colouring and flavouring it, which was then pumped onto the cakes using a piping bag, since the plunger one had broke since it was cheap. The colours of the icing really complemented the cakes I think.

Look great/ Tastes good.

Attempt 3.

Trying to improvise our own technique, blobbing on the chocolate instead of drizzling it, it left some marks and defects on some of the edges but I corrected them using a scalpel to cut them off. They were alot stronger from been thicker and this aided in them not melting as fast also. They also tasted really nice which is good.

Looks cool.

The final result below, arranged in order and ready for the next day. We'd baked 2 of every cake so incase one had gone wrong there was always one we could use that would fine. Or to eat. Really happy with how they turned out and it took a bit of experimenting to work but they looked really great in the end.