Girl Before A Mirror Cupcakes for Liza Palmer
Liza Palmer is a best selling author, her book Conversations with a Fat Girl has been optioned by HBO and her newest book, Girl Before A Mirror: A Novel just came out last week!
Girl Before A Mirror is about Anna Wyatt, a woman at a crossroads who just turned forty and is struggling to figure out what her life needs. This smart and funny book might be just what you need find the heroine within yourself.
Liza’s book signing took place at Vroman’s right around Valentine’s Day so the theme of these cupcakes was love and sweets. Seeing as how Liza is a fan of See’s Candies Bourdeaux (clearly the best of the See’s Candies) I thought I’d push decadence over the edge and add the candies as toppers for the cupcakes. In the book, Anna finds a self-help book called, Be the Heroine, Find Your Hero and I knew that would be a fun focal point for oversized hearts on the cupcakes.
Candy-themed cupcakes and a good book. What more do you need out of life?
Girl Before A Mirror Cupcakes for Liza Palmer
Ingredients:
you’ll need:
cupcakes, baked
icing
See’s Candies Bordeaux chocolates
cookie ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
pink food gel dye
Instructions:
In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar.
Add the egg and vanilla to the butter mixture.
Add a few drop of pink food gel dye and stir.
Slowly add the flour mixture until combined. The flour will lighten the color so add more food gel dye if necessary.
Mix on medium high until the dough pulls away from the bowl.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge.
When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prep baking sheets with silpats.
Roll out the dough to 3/8 inch thick. Use a 3-1/2 inch heart cutter to cut out shapes. Move the cookies to the prepped baking sheets and bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.
Once the cookies are cool Use a #2 tip and pipe words onto the cookies. Place on top of cupcakes to serve.
For the candy cupcakes pipe a ring of frosting around the edge of the cupcake. Place a See’s Bordeaux in the center, then pipe another ring of frosting to serve.
