Ingredients To Make 12 Bath Bomb Cupcakes:
1 Pound Citric Acid
2 Pounds Baking Soda
spritzer filled with Witch Hazel
Silicone Cupcake Mold (NEW!)
Labcolor (we used Canary for the bright yellow frosting)
Cupcake Liners
1. Place the Citric Acid and Baking soda in your mixing bowl. Use your fingers to break up any clumps that might be in the mixture. The goal is a smooth and small grained mixture.
2. Add fragrance. Since each bath fizzy needs to scent an entire tub, you'll want to use a good amount of fragrance. 1/3 ounce is a good place to start all the way up to 1/2 ounce per pound of mixture.
3. Add four to seven drops of color. If you are using LaBomb (FD&C based colors in glycerin) the color will immediately bead up and clump. Work this around with your fingers to break up the clumps or use a sieve.
4. Mix the color and fragrance in thoroughly. This is important as clumps of fragrance or moisture can turn into wart-like protrusions on your bath fizzy.
5. Spritz the mixture with 6 squirts of Witch Hazel. Mix in well. Grab some of the mixture and make a fist around it. Does the mixture stay together? If it does, it's ready to mold. If it does not hold its shape, do 3 more Witch Hazel spritzes until the mixture forms a shape in your hand when clenched.
6. Turn to your cupcake mold. Are the liners in? Make sure they are firmly in the mold. Take a handful of the dry mixture and press firmly into the molds. The more dense and packed the fizzies are, the longer they will last in the tub.
7. Unlike most fizzies, having an even back is not needed nor recommended. Ideally, you'll want to mound up the middle of the cupcake because it will help to give your frosting a good base to wind up around.
8. Let the fizzies harden inside the mold. You'll frost the cupcake bath fizzies while the bath bombs are still inside the cupcake baking sheet.
Check back tomorrow for our super duper improved frosting recipe. It has SLS in it to fizz, whirl and easily melt away in the tub.
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14 comments:
I am actually looking for deep molds, like large votive shapes, to make a tall cupcake. I think flat ones aren't as GRAND looking.... any suggestions?
Am still waiting for frosting recipe...biting nails.... ;)
OK, NOW i see the "key"...!
the mounding in the middle.
This is what keeps their "hat" on!
ingenious!
so often I make too much frosting
also. This is a waste of ingredients; those meringue white by Wilton are Very Very expensive.
Anne Marie, do you think there might be a way to make the frostings in advance and store them for future so it can be handy to attach later? Do you think we could maybe spritz those surfaces with Witch Hazel to attach later if so?
Or, maybe some melted cocoa butter or something sticky gooey?
but the mounding seems to be the key!!! yay!
I always heard to not use yellow for bombs. Yellow water in the tub, you know what it looks like, LOL.
rita
I am anxious to try this new frosting recipe. The main problem I have with bath cupcakes is that the icing always falls off - whether it is soap frosting, or real sugar icing. Only have this problem with the fizzie cupcakes - never with the soap cupcakes.
thanks! can't wait for part 2 these are on my next up list to try out
I like blissful bath cupcake bath bomb base ( cake part ) I like the ridge at the top, any Ideas on what they use to get that shape?
Anne-Marie,
Thanks for the tutorial. It looks like a lot of fun. How many cupcakes does this recipe make, and what about the frosting recipe? (for some reason the posting section is not working on Part II)
Also, do you have a source for bulk meringue powder?
Thanks!
Ok, I have got to stop ohhing and ahhing at this and try it for myself.
Good Morning!
The bath bomb recipe makes 12 mounded cupcakes with a little extra frosting. I don't know about making it ahead of time - maybe making it and putting a damp dish towel over the top of it might help to keep it fresh but I don't think that will work for more than a day.
The blissful bath cupcakes are adorable - I think they are using a mold to make the "ridge". Their site it super cute ... http://www.blissfulbath.com/fizzycupcake.php?c=bathe&p=fizzycupcake
If you make the soap frosting out of foaming bath whip, you can store it in a baggie for later use and just heat it up a bit. As for attaching the soap frosting to the cupcake you can use a little m/p soap add a couple drops to the bottom of the soap frosting and then attach to the bottom of cupcake. you can see mine at http://www.sundaespa.com/products/bath-cakes
I've not yet made a bath bomb before! Tell me for true, do you really really have to have the SLS in the mix? I realize it is added for foam, but are there alternatives? It's about the only thing that stops me from snappin' up that kit! Talk about a fun thing to do on mother's day with 3 generations!
~Regina
Looks good! I have to try bath bombs.
this is so cool. I was just wondering why there is no oil or butter in the recipe? Isn't that the whole reason for using a bath bomb? Thanks Karrie
Regina, Here's the "old" frosting recipe without SlS: http://soap-queen.blogspot.com/2007/06/bath-bomb-cupcakes-instructions.html
It was a fine recipe but the frosting sort of floated in the tub for like 30 minutes before crumbling. Rather than dissolving and adding to the bathing experience.
You could do either frosting recipe though and they'd look equally cute.
Karrie, You definitely could do oil or butter in the recipe if that's your preference. I tend to not like the slippery tub thing so don't formulate much with oil BUT I promise to do a bath melt for you one of these days so you'll get the 411 on making a great bath melt.
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