Gourmet Slushie Cakes a la GLEE

Here's where it started, people!

I bring you the very first "specialty" cupcake that I ever tried - the Slushie Cake! (aka - Gourmet Slushie Cake a la GLEE).

In my first post, I said that GLEE was my inspiration for this cupcake so I could eventually serve it at a GLEE party...and DID!

I, first, played with coloring the sugar. This is to help give that icy look & crunch to the slushie cakes. As I used the different colors, I was trying to imagine what flavors they might be for.

I then wanted to actually flavor the cupcakes themselves to taste like a slushie in cake form. And I did it for SUPER cheap! I have done orange, cherry, grape & lemon-lime. I can also do strawberry, berry blue, blue raspberry-lemonade, lemonade, limeade (even w/ cherry). Any ideas on what I use?

I would then place a VERY thin layer of white frosting on each cupcake, use Wilton's spray food coloring to give the color & then sprinkle the matching colored sugar on top. I have since figured out how to flavor my icing to match the taste of the cake. For those who have had them can tell you that one of these cupcakes really do taste like a slushie in cake form! Add a licorice whip for a straw & you have the cutest little slushie cupcakes!





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A Mean Cupcake

Hi Everyone!

I thought I might start a blog about my cupcakes that I have recently taken to making.

What got this started? GLEE! Yes, my new cupcake passion was totally inspired by GLEE.

I was trying to find a great background for my GLEE Twitter account last summer & I thought the iconic slushee would be perfect! I looked all over the web for a great GLEE slushee/slushee-facial pic to use. I came across a pic of cupcakes someone made to look like the "Big Quench" slushees from GLEE! They were so adorable! And it was a cupcake...another GLEE reference. So that's the pic I used. But everytime I looked at it, I wanted a cupcake AND a slushee.

Well, when Season 2 was quickly approaching, I wanted to have a GLEE kick-off party...with all of the perfect GLEE food references & inspirations! So I wanted to make the slushee cakes...but not just LOOK like like the slushees, but TASTE like them too!

It took a couple of test runs, and I now make slushee cakes in several flavors! They are totally adorable & totally taste like a slushee in cake form!!

Then my mom's birthday was coming, and I knew her favorite chocolates are orange cremes. So, I took my orange slushee cake batter & also did a chocolate cake batter, then marbled them together! A new cake creation was born...so then I did one for my stepdaughter (upon her request) for a cherry cordial cake...with my cherry slushee cake batter & chocolate marbled together!

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Now onto the name "A Mean Cupcake":

My teenage daughter has a boyfriend who is apparently afraid of, not only dad, but me, too! Just how we would like it. YEA! I'm scary!

Well, when my stepdaughter found out that my daughter's boyfriend was afraid of BOTH of us, she said, "Why is he afraid of you? You make cupcakes." Oh really? Making cupcakes automatically makes you a total sweetheart? Interesting. I mean, I am usually a nice & caring person, but sometimes life doesn't call for it. At least for me.

So I can still be mean & make cupcakes! As a matter of fact...I can make "a mean cupcake".

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I plan on using this blog to share my cupcake creations. I have done some...and have plans & ideas for more!

My formula for coming up with them? It's my formula for any my creative ventures: Double I/Double R. Inspiration, Imagination, Research, Resources.

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