Mehndi Cupcakes

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I husker måske at, jeg har fortalt tidligere om to af mine bedste veninders børn to forestående bryllup her til sommer. Den ene bryllup blev holdt sidst i Juni, en meget smuk og rørende fest. Den anden bryllup er her i august. Sidste weekend var der Mehndi ( før bryllups fest )  for min venindes søn. Det var en sjov, farvrig og smuk fest. Maden var lækker og underholdningen super. Min veninde, brudgommens mor havde sørget for en dessert bord med mithai ( pakistansk konfekt ) og frugt. Hun havde desuden ønsket søde sager til dessert bordet som værtinde gave, det blev til en smuk og meget international dessert bord med blandt andet : chokoladekage, baklava, halwa (fra min mor) masser mihtai, frugt buket mm.   Fra os havde hun ønsket cupcake pyntet i gule og orange farver. 
Jeg synes at det kunne være sjovt at lave små mehndi taal ( traditionelle tallerkener med henna, lys og andet pynt, bruges til henna aften)  på cupcakene.  

As you may recall, I have told you about two of my best friends children weddings this summer. One of the weddings, a very beautiful and touching wedding happend in June. The second one is now in august. Last weekend there was Mehndi ( pre wedding party/ event) in honuor of my friends son. It was such a fun, colourful and beautiful party. The food was delicious and the entertainment was superb. For dessert my friend, the bridegroom mother arranged dessert table with mithai ( pakistani confection) and fruit. She also requested for sweets/ desserts  as hostess gift for the dessert table. It was such a beautiful and a very international dessert table. Among other desserts there were : Four tired stand with mitahi, fruit boquet, chocolate cake, baklava, halwa (made by my mother) ect ect . From us my friend had wished cupcakes with yellow and orange decorations. I thaught it would be fun to make mehndi taals ( the tradional menhdi/ henna plates with candles, henna and other decorations) on the cupcakes.

Cupcakes med gul fad (gul fondant) pyntet med mørke grøn mehndi ( royal iceing), blomster og lys med flamme (fondant). Plus lidt glimmer

Cupcakes with yellow plate (yellow fondant) decorated with dark green mehndi (royal iceing), flowers and white candle with flames ( fondant). And ofcourse little edible glitter.

Jeg bagte 42 Citron & Birkes frø Cupcakes, opskrift her  http://cupcakeluvs.blogspot.dk/2013/02/citron-birkes-cupcakes-lemon-poppy-seed.html. Jeg tilsatte passionsfrugt aroma istedet for citronen, men jeg synes ikke helt man kunne dufte eller smage passionfrugten. Der gik også noget galt med pyntet. Selve cupcakene smagte udmærket, men pynten ( den gule tallerken) smagte af salt. Til dagens dato er det et mysteriet, hvodran pynten blev saltet,  fordi det er en fædig farvet fondant jeg havde købt. Har i oplevet det?  Desværre opdaget vi det først der, når folk havde taget. Alle var meget søde, jeg hørte ikke nogle klager, Folk spiste kagerne men ikke pynten. Heldigvis fejlede den halvdel ikke noget.

I baked 42 Lemon & Poppy seed Cupcakes, recipe here http://cupcakeluvs.blogspot.dk/2013/02/citron-birkes-cupcakes-lemon-poppy-seed.html. Instead of lemon juice I added passion fruit aroma, but I could´nt taste or smell the passionfruit, maybe because of the lemon. Something also went wrong with the decorations. The cupcakes were tasty but somehow the fondant decoration became salty. I dont understand how that happend and it is stil a mystery because I used ready coloured fondant. Has that happend to you? . Unfortunelly we found that first at tea time. People were nice about it ate the cupcake underneath not the decoration. Luckly the other half were okey with no salty decorations.  

Som sagt heldigvis fejlede pynten på den anden halvdel ikke noget. Min datter stod for pynten af den anden halvdel.  Hun lavede henna mønster med royal iceing. 

Luckly there half had no salty decorations, thanks God. My daughter decorated that half with henna designs with royal iceing. 

Måske kan i løse mysteriet om de saltede dekorationer? 

Maybe you can solve the mystery with the salty decorations?