Frosting overdose?

I woke up and really wanted to bake. That's my usual response to a good day. It's so beautiful outside and I thought a picnic with the kids would be great and what goes better with a picnic than cupcakes? (and then the unslaught of ants that appear suddenly) Unfortunately I didn't have any butter and I can't use my usual cupcake recipe without it. I could of used margarine but it doesn't give that fluffiness I like. So out came an imported cupcake mix from the back of the cupboard to use.

I got this box mix from my local U.S food importer. I've been dying to try Funfetti cupcakes.. and this was the only confetti like cupcake mix I could find. I was surprised to find that it only needed water, oil and egg whites (never had to use just egg whites in a mix before) so it was easy to mix together. Oh the joy of seeing all the little bits of colour in the batter. The cake batter was uber sweet and that's always an indication to me that the cupcakes will turn out fluffy and good.

23 minutes later they were done. 10 mins later they were cool enough to frost.. and you have no idea how impatient kids are when there are yummy looking cupcakes cooling in the kitchen. I had to ban them from the kitchen until the cupcakes were warm and then I had no chance getting rid of them while I piped pink frosting onto them. Then again, I'd be waiting for my cupcake excitedly too.

Not my best frosting job. I stupidly used disposable plastic piping bags that broke with too much frosting (got to remind myself not to overload the bags) I think I needed more icing sugar to keep the frosting stiffer but it was good enough for a weekend cupcake job. These cupcakes won't last long enough for anyone to care about how the frosting looks. I even used up another 12 of the 100 Elmo cupcake liners I still had from a friend's birthday.

Overall I didn't mind the confetti cupcakes. They were OK but I still was a little disappointed in the overal taste. Fluffy, check. Cute, check. Full of cupcakey flavour, meh. It needed a little more buttery/vanilla taste to it. I might have to try and attempt my own Confetti cupcakes. It can't be that hard. Maybe just stir through some 100s and 1000s through the mix.

Off to douse myself in the bowl of leftover frosting. Hence the frosting overdose title, lol.