Frosting the Perfect Cupcake: My Portion Trick

Many of you will be making cupcakes this next week for Valentine's Day. One of my favorite tips to share about frosting cupcakes is what I call my portion trick. To ensure equal amounts of frosting on each cupcake you just do the following.

 

1. Plop on the desired amount of frosting on your first cupcake. This can be with an ice cream scoop, or just start eye-balling what you think you want, or rather need. ;)

 

2. Continue doing so with all cupcakes until the frosting in your bowl is gone. (This is so easy, right?)  

3. Take a look at all your cupcakes to make sure they appear equal, then frost them as you desire. If some cupcakes have a bit more frosting than others, adjust. The best part about this is you'll use up all your frosting and have great looking cupcakes. And there you go, an easy tip to frosting the perfect cupcake!