Italian Buttercream Fail

[tju_tju_tju_tju]

I should've known better than to do something even moderately difficult like Italian Buttercream because I have no idea what I'm doing and I suck. I can't even separate eggs, for God's sakes.

It just goes to show, everything I do I am hopelessly mediocre at. I wanted to throw out the cupcakes but my mom won't let me because she says my dad will eat them, even though I know he won't because he never eats anything I bake. I don't want yet another cupcake from a mix with fucking store-bought frosting because I am an incompetent idiot.

Just forget it.

ETA: I calmed down after about a minute and made regular buttercream instead. And I still got to use my cool dessert decorator thing, so yay!



What happened was, I couldn't separate the egg whites to save my life. The yolk kept falling out. I don't know if it was the eggs themselves or if it was me, but the yolk was running all over the place and I wound up wasting about 18 eggs trying to get six goddamn egg whites. So I told my mom to please get me some egg whites from the store (I didn't feel like going) when she got home from work. So I poured the egg whites into the bowl, mixed it, put the sugar and water on the stove... and I think where I might have messed up was letting the sugar cool for a bit because I wasn't sure if the egg whites were doing what they were supposed to be doing, and then the sugar wound up caramelizing in the bowl and it was RUINED FOREVER.

So I went and cried in my room for a bit and felt like fail before I decided that I wanted to finish my damn cupcakes, even if I had to make regular, sugary buttercream. Luckily I still had some confectioner's sugar left over from last time, and it wasn't a ridiculous amount so this instance of buttercream frosting wasn't as sugary as the last few times.

Comments

[trinaweena.livejournal.com]

i've found that usually when it comes to baking, whatever you want to make, is usually what you end up not making!

i set out to make boyfriend a whiskey cake from our fav restraunt in disney for his birthday and ended up with chocolate cake and whipped cream frosting after my attempts at mousse failed miserably

point is, you'll never know how to do something until you try it, and the more you practice the better you'll get

and i would def eat those cupcakes

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

That has definitely been my experience so far! XD

I wish I had enough money to just buy, like, 100 eggs and practice separating eggs all day, but I don't, haha. ONE DAYYYY

Hee, thanks! :D