Star Wars Cupcakes!!!

For my friends' son's birthday, they requested that I make Star Wars cupcakes, so this it what I came up with! Unfortunately, darker colors don't show up so well when taking a photo, so Darth Vader seems like just a black cupcake. The details on R2D2 & Chewbacca aren't quite as noticable in the photo either. The cupcakes are (from left to right) Queen Amidala, Darth Maul, Jawa, Luke (in his pilot helmet), Chewbacca, (next row) Yoda, Storm Trooper, Cad Bane, Bobba Fett, R2D2, (last row) Darth Vader, C3PO, Princess Leia and Anakin.

I chose to model them off of the LEGO Star Wars characters, because their son's favorite video game (you guessed it) is LEGO Star Wars! Hehe!

Simple Can Be Great!

I posted the wedding cake I did for my sister-in-law and it was a simple which I felt it still looked great. I find that with wedding cakes that can be key.

There is a growing trend in weddings where people are using cupcakes instead of large wedding cakes. I had done this for my sister's wedding.

I used a Wilton No. 21 Open Star Decorating Tip. I started from the outside edge of the cupcake and rotated the cupcake toward the middle with white buttercream frosting. I also had 2 Cupcakes 'N More® 38 Count Large Dessert Stands to display them. There are many other ways to display them too.

Here are a few examples I found on other blogs...

Tiered Pie Tin Organizer

Cupcake Tower

Cupcake Tower (made like the last one, but made square)



Hope this helps! Simple can equal ELEGANT!

Let's Talk Wedding Cakes

So, my husband's brother got married in Hawaii and my mother-in-law & father-in-law decided they wanted to throw a reception for them. I volunteered to make the cake. This was my first wedding cake EVER! I started to do research online. I checked out Hawaiian Resort Wedding sites and Hawaiian themed wedding cake ideas on line. I remembered helping my mom set up wedding cakes and her working with florists. The florist would make pieces with flowers that would set up on the cakes. So I decided I would make a simple white buttercream frosted cake and I would make mini flower arrangements to place on the cake. It turned out just as I had hoped. And I'm pretty sure the bride and groom liked the cake too!

I cut the cardboards that the cakes sat on to the same size as the cake (with the exception of the base cardboard), so they were less noticeable, I also used doll rods to support each cake. I cut 4 rods to the depth of the bottom cake, then put them in the center of the cake then placed the next cake on top. I repeated that process for the next layer. I thought that a wedding cake was going to be impossible. I didn't think I could pull it off, but I was pleased with the outcome!