Rack 'em up

Another creation from the Hello Cupcake app and book. Instead of buying all the different coloured sugar I dyed it myself. Inside a freezer bag I poured some regular granulated sugar; to that I added a little food colouring and shook it like a polaroid picture. This was also my first attempt at cream cheese frosting, which was probably a little too runny for this project but was so delicious it didn't matter! In order to get the striped balls you need some grease proof paper or baking parchment. Cover the top and bottom of the cupcake and roll in the desired coloured sugar. Then put them in the fridge; this gives a smoother line when removing the parchment. Remove the parchment and roll the remaining iced cupcake in regular granulated sugar. Simple!

As the Hello Cupcake gang are american, a lot of the little candies they suggest using are unavailable to us here, so the white bit is actually a trebor strong mint. As the cupcakes ages the mint of the strong mint infused into the sugar icing and made it nice and minty. Also instead of using cake safe pens I actually just used a sharpie (not recommended!) but I did warn people not to eat it.