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Yesterday, I decided that I wanted to make cupcakes. I love watching baking shows and I have always wanted to get better at icing my own cupcakes. I went to the grocery store to buy all of the ingredients needed to make a cupcake and icing. I also bought sprinkles. I decided to make vanilla confetti cupcakes because that is my favorite flavor. I baked 24 cupcakes total. After I baked the cupcakes and let them cool I made the icing. I made a vanilla buttercream. I had a star and round piping tip, so that is what I used to ice my cupcakes. I started with the round tip because I thought that it would be easier to pipe. The first cupcake I piped was difficult because it was hard to keep my hand steady so that I could make the swirl good. It took me 4 cupcakes to get it semi-right. I then moved onto the star tip. I made small swirls on one of the cupcakes. I think that they turned our really good and looked like proper swirls. I then tried to make a bigger swirl with the star tip and that did not work out as well. It looked really lopsided and not uniform. I used the rest of the cupcakes to continue practicing with both piping tips. The icing started to look better as I kept practicing but it still was not perfect. I now know how challenging it is to really perfect how to ice a cupcake. It also gets really different based on the icing tip you are using, which obviously affects the results. I did learn how to keep my hand more steady, which is good for any of my future cupcake icing attempts. 


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