Dainty? I prefer the term rustic.

I made these cupcakes with a perhaps little to pretentious goal as to how they would turn out. I imagined these red velvet cupcakes to be dainty with the perfect amount of icing, like the ones you see on the windows of french patisseries. Let me tell you that although my vision was not achieved I did end up with a dozen rustic looking cupcakes with a more than hearty portion of cream cheese icing dolloped on top and topped with a handful of crumbs sprinkled on to top to give them that homey rustic feel. In fact now that I think about it they turned out the exact opposite to how I had imagined. But to my relief no one complained in fact inside I'm sure that they secretly loved the over average sized dollop of icing on top of the cupcakes-well I did at least- and I have to say they tasted pretty darn good.