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| Lekue Kit Cupcake |
Most of my Christmas presents this year were baking themed.
I was really intrigued by the Lekue Kit Cupcake set that I got from Jeff's mum and dad. It looks amazing. And I love gadgets, especially cooking ones. I decided to test it out on a baking day with the girls.
We made some Chocolate Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery Cupcake book, by Martha Swift. And I set the girls to work with fondant icing and my new heart shaped plungers, to make some "sprinkles" for the cakes.
I made a batch of buttercream icing and got to work:
It worked really well to start with when I had a full tub of butter icing in the Decomax. It was easier to put the icing into the Decomax than it usually is with a piping bag. And it was easy to switch between the nozzles, However, once I had iced about 4 cupcakes it became a struggle to do the rest. I had to really squeeze the decomax, which wasn't easy. I ended up with the icing coming out of the lid.
In the end I gave up and scraped the rest of the icing out and spread it onto the cupcakes. I had made exactly enough icing for all of the cupcakes. I think for this to have worked effectively I might have needed more icing in the Decomax. But then half of it would have gone to waste.
In researching the product I have seen reviews where people have said it works like a dream with things like whipped cream and batter for macarons, but that buttercream icing can be tricky. The books comes with a few icing recipes. I might give them a try and see if it works any better. For buttercream icing though, I think that a piping bag is definitely easier.
However, it did not spoil our tea party one bit! The cakes were delicious. We also had some sausage rolls, grapes, slushies and some pretend food too.
I will update when I try it with something else. It's such a lovely gadget, it would be a shame not to use it.
