Cupcake Decorating...

  

Our friend Abbi had a birthday and invited us to go decorate cupcakes with her. This cupcake place, Kingscups Cake Studio, in downtown Daegu was across the street from our board game cafe was it was easy to find. I had never heard of it, but Abbi had been wanting to go.
None of us had been before, so it took awhile for us to understand the procedure. This is what we discovered...

#1. You get 4 cupcakes for 10,000. They are 4 different flavors. When we went there were- strawberry, almond, chocolate chip, and cappuccino. You place your order at the counter, but you don't pay until the end.

#2. With these 4 cupcake flavors, you get two piping bags of "whipped" icing. This was similar to whipped cream. You must get white (vanilla) as one of your flavors, and then you also can pick another flavor. There were about 8 different ones to choose from. We picked mint!

#3. Then you go to another counter that is full of add-ons. There are sugar letters/numbers, sprinkles, colored sugar, chocolate shavings, gel icing, and much more. You take what you want on a separate plate and begin your decorating. They are all individually priced!

#4. Decorate your cupcakes. Do what you want. Ben and I tried to use ALL of our whipped icing so to not waste any! This made my cupcakes very tall! ahah

#5. When you are finished, you take the cupcakes to the counter and the cashier adds up all of the add-ons that you used and then you pay for it all together at this time. Our cupcakes were still under 13,000 won and it was a lot of fun making them.

I will admit that some of the flavor combos were a little odd, but the frostings were not that strong, so it didn't make too much of a difference. The lady working was very kind, and as we were leaving we figured out that we had intimidated her quite a bit and so she called her friend who was better at English in case we had any issues. How cute! 

Busy at work...

The concentration needed to make cupcakes is insane! :) Maria and Ben definitely have that concentration down! I slightly wish that we could have gotten different piping tips, but in reality that would be insane and a ton of dishes and washing on the part of the owners! I understand why that doesn't happen. I guess I am just missing the ease of baking/cooking  in America. It is so much harder to do anything cooking-wise in Korea. I mean, my oven only fits 6 cupcakes at a time...

These are my two finished products. Nothing too fancy or over the top. Luckily, we were able to share and swap different icings to achieve different colors.

We started out having a contest for the best cupcake, but we never really finished that. We ended up just having fun and making what we wanted to make. Stefanie made a few cupcakes that were inspired by her hedgehog, Noname! I'll have to admit- they were pretty cool and creative. Personally, I wasn't as inspired with one frosting color....ahah! Stef won...

The cupcakes below are Abbi's- hence the "2" and "4" birthday candles! :) 

Happy Birthday Abbi!