Magnolia Cupcakes

When I decided to start baking I began looking around online for recipes for delightful pastries, pies, cakes and such. I almost instantly found a charming bakery in NYC called Magnolia Bakery that had the most enchanting cupcakes I've ever seen. Nothing too fancy, just very pretty and delightful cupcakes loaded with icing. After some digging I found the recipe they use and tried it out myself. The cake batter AND the amazing butter cream icing were both homemade. The taste was incredible... it was the perfect cupcake and icing recipe. Not bad for my first attempt at becoming a baker!

The first set of pictures are THEIR cupcakes... the second set are mine.

Theirs...

And mine...

(the lighting was bad in the kitchen, the cupakes look greenish, but they were a very soft blue.)

I had so much batter and icing left over I made a small cake...