Black Raspberry Vanilla Cupcake Soap

Third times the charm?  Well maybe, the soap was certainly easy to pipe this time, but I can't say that they look as nice as I would have liked. The color was meant to be darker purple and not a light pink. The "frosting" also looks a little soft to me, but I made sure to keep the points lower so that they do not look like pink Christmas trees! Once again I used a circle hole piping tip instead of the flower-like tip. I am not sure yet which look I prefer?  What is your opinion?

Black Raspberry Vanilla Soap Cupcakes

Coconut Lime Soap Cupcakes

My blog post yesterday I talked about how easy it was to pipe soap, well perhaps I spoke too soon. I made some coconut lime soap cupcakes the day after I made the chocolate raspberry cupcakes. The fragrance must have sped up the soap reaction because the soap got thick very fast. I was able to plop in the uncolored cake part of the soap and push it down to fill the cups. Then I had to add some green oxide to get the color for the frosting.  I barely whipped that color in, but by then it was so thick that I could hardly pipe it. I had to change the soap frosting into another bag and use a larger circular tip, but even then it took all my strength to get the soap out.  In the end, I think they look good, but boy was it a process! I pressed in some soap shavings to give the look of coconut and then topped that off with my favorite--glitter! I think they look a bit like Christmas trees, so maybe I should make them again for next Christmas and decorate them with little colored balls of soap to look like ornaments! 

Uncolored soap smooshed into the pan!

Trying to add my super thick soap into the piping bag

Final product

Final product with shredded soap to look like coconut

They almost look like Christmas trees!

Cupcakes! Yumm...oh wait...this is soap!

I have been making some soap cupcakes as a special for Valentine's Day. I am preparing three different "flavors". They will be Dark Chocolate Raspberry (shown in this blog post), Coconut Lime, and Black Raspberry Vanilla. 

The cake part of these soaps is made with a dark chocolate fragrance and I darkened up the soap with a bit of cocoa powder. The frosting is scented with a sun ripened raspberry fragrance and the color is from a little bit of red clay. They are finished off with a touch of iridescent glitter to make sure that they sparkle.  I think that they really smell and look amazing! This was my first time piping soap and it was quite easy.  I think I may start making more of these! I have included a bunch of photos as I pipe on the last of the frosting. Enjoy!

Yum! Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cupcake Soap

Check out my lab jacket in this one!

Finishing up the piping

Added a little sprinkle of glitter!