Maci-cakes turns 1

Single fondant flowers on a glazed vanilla cupcake.

Per Jayden's request, Maci had a flower birthday party.
Her cupcakes were pink vanilla with a vanilla glaze and a fondant flower.

I'm going to have to throw in a group picture, of course.

And a couple pics of the birthday girl checking out and eating her cupcake.

Since it took time to color, mold and shape the fondant flowers, I started making them a couple of weeks before. Wilton carries little plastic cups in which to mold your flowers. But there's only one per pack of each size. So I made my own with a 3 layers of foil. They worked great and I still have them although I haven't been motivated to make more of these flowers.



I shaped each flower, then cut away a little bit in between each petal and curled them up. Topped them with a smaller flower-shaped cutout and a little bit of frosting.

I cut out circles of fondant because I thought it would look nice to have a solid white top for my cupcakes. Since my circle cutter wasn't large enough, I rolled them out a little more.

I glazed the top of the cupcakes prior to placing the fondant round on top so it would stick. In the background you can see what they looked like with the fondant circle. I ended up removing them all, though, since they didn't actually look that nice. I know they look nice in the background but I promise there was something wrong with the look.  I think my fondant circles were too thin and they flopped over on the cupcake in a very unattractive way.  I generally like the clean lines of fondant but these weren't that clean.

I ended up glazing them 3 times in order to get enough glaze color.

Ready for travel in my nifty little cupcake holder my sister got for me.

On display at the party. Notice how all the fondant flowers wilted. Yeah, so if you place your hardened fondant shapes on top of a moist cupcake and place them in an an airtight container then will soften. Good to know. Oh well, I still thought they looked great. :)

Basic Flower

I made these to send to Joe's work in honor of Maci's birthday but shared them with Sara instead. :) She was hosting a baby shower the day after hosting Maci's b-day party so it was the least I could do.

So this post is a little disorganized. It's been a while since I posted anything and I forgot that you have to uploade the pictures in reverse order. And I can't seem to move them around once they're uploaded. So there you go.



I used a basic vanilla cake recipe with vanilla frosting from Martha's cupcake book.



I saw this idea in a Martha book. She uses a little ice cream scoop to top her cupcakes then smooshes down the frosting with the back of the scoop. That way you are assured plenty of frosting.
It actually worked pretty well but I wonder if this technique is best used with a big scoop for a lot of frosting.

So many cupcakes, so little time . . .

Each cupcake received a little pink flower and polka dotted liner.

Here they are, ready for travel.