Cupcakes II

I am practising baking cupcakes because I want to bake Crocky's brass players something nice because they always bake, and my mother's birthday is today and I wanted to bake her some tasty cupcakes, albeit less chocolatey, because I think she would prefer fruit instead of a chocolate explosion. This time, I really followed both recipe and the instructions for decoration to the letter and even included the dreaded icing.



Looks like I need some more practice with the icing bag, I can't get those swirls any straighter, and these crooked squiggles don't look particularly appetising. I am not too sure about the icing in general, either, as it makes the taste of the filling redundant and the things unnecessary fatty and sweet. It's a nice contrast to the dry dough of the cupcakes, but using a more fluffy recipe for the dough would probably work just as well with the filling and a more plain chocolate cover.