Pirate cupcake misadventure

I had some rosewater buttercream leftover from my turkish delight cupcakes and thought I should use it up somehow. Tip for the future: rosewater buttercream doesn't really go with chocolate cupcakes! But I had fun with the decorating.

Here are my cupcakes, all ready to go. I used Willow Bird Baking's "Wacky Cake" recipe base, which is egg and dairy-free. (It came out a bit dry, but maybe I over-baked it... nothing a bit of Nutella filling wouldn't fix next time!)

My Domestic Cowboy has previously bought black food colouring gel from a specialty store to make cookie icing, but we recently discovered that you can get this liquid stuff at the supermarket much cheaper! As you can see, it doesn't really make the icing black, but it had kind of an interesting silvery metallic sheen to it.

I first did a layer of blue, à la pirate-infested water. And then it was time to test out the new 3S icing tip.

Turns out 3S is great for writing and drawing! (...if you can draw :p)

Although the flavour combination was less than grand, I was quite happy with these, and with the potential for making "Eat Me" Alice In Wonderland cakes in the future with my new friend, 3S.

Arr, me hearties!