My bestest friend’s daughter received first communion this past weekend and my friend asked me to make cupcakes for the party afterwards.
I immediately said sure. No problem. How many do you want?
She goes, “How about 50. Yeah, at least 50.”
50? Ummm… okay. Thinking in the back of my mind… How am I going to transport 50 cupcakes and still keep them as fresh as possible because I’ll have to make them the night before? And what am I going to carry them all in and put them on? Now, that may not sound like a lot to you guys, but it is when you’ve never done that many for someone else before and especially for a whole bunch of people you’ll have to look in the face if they don’t like them. I’m not a caterer, you know.… I tend to panic right before I bake. I’m weird like that…
… and, then how to decorate them? What do you do for communion cupcakes anyway?
Luckily, I still had the invitation laying around, so I just used it for inspiration.
And, after visiting several stores, I finally found a 4-tier Cupcake Tower
from Wilton that would hold about 36 cupcakes. That was the biggest I could find, and seeing as how I waited until the last minute… I grabbed it.
I wanted each tier to alternate with the design, so I started planning and put my math skills to work.
12 + 8 + 1 = 21 (Excellent… Martha Stewart’s One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes makes about 22.) Check! These will be chocolate cupcakes with pink tinted vanilla buttercream frosting. YUM!
10 + 6 = 16 (Yay… Half of this moist yellow cake recipe makes about 18) Perfect! These will be vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. YUM! YUM!
Note: I doubled the buttercream recipe for each of these so I would have enough… especially for the swirly ones (made with the 1M tip).
But wait… that’s 37. Perfect for the cupcake tower, but I need 50. Not enough. (I got As in math, by the way.)
So I made another batch of cupcakes by halving this Easter cupcake recipe from a few weeks ago and a chocolate cream cheese frosting. I could have doubled one of the others, but I decided to make a third kind. That way I could have people choose their favorite chocolate one. I like feedback.
The night before I made the cupcakes, I made these cute little toppers. I tinted some fondant
pink and used my favorite set of double-sided graduated cutters
to make the shapes. These were going on the vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. They’ll really pop on white.
Then, I tinted some more of the fondant a dark brown. To get it this dark, use brown and then add some violet until you get the right shade.
For the crosses, I photocopied the invitation and scaled it down until it was a size that would fit inside of the pink shape when cut out.
Then, all you have to do is roll out the fondant and cut it in rectangular shapes that match the height and width of the cross. Mine are a little uneven, but no worries.
Because, you can make adjustments when you finish up the crosses. And all you do for that is remove sections from each of the four corners with a cutter until you are left with the remaining cross shape. Her invitation had edges that varied in width, so I used this tiny triangle cutter to do the job. You can just as easily use a square cutter and end up with evenly shaped sides.
Then, use a tiny dab of water on the underside of the crosses and attach them to the pink fondant cutouts. Easy.
Now I had plenty of toppers, plenty of cupcakes and plenty of frosting. But not plenty of room to showcase them. Remember, the tower only holds 36 and I now had 50 some odd cupcakes.
What to do? What to do?
Ask Martha of course. She always has an answer.
I found this beautiful display in my Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine (Spring 2009). They’re made of graduated hat boxes and wrapped with designs printed on card stock. Cool, huh. I got really excited and even thought about ditching the whole cupcake tower thing. She has very detailed instructions here. But, after reading, I realized they were for mini cupcakes. Nooooooo! And even though I got A’s in math, I didn’t feel like figuring out all the conversions to adjust. Yuck-o-rama.
So, I took her lead and went looking for hat boxes… in any size I could find. Which wasn’t many. I found big and round and that’s about it. So instead of stacking mine, I made two separate displays.
I think they came out super cute. If you look closely, the design is the same as the background in the invitation, above.
I copied the ornamental design and repeated the pattern on an 11X17 document and printed it out on heavyweight paper.
Then, I cut the paper horizontally in half in a wavy line that went in between two rows of the ornamental pattern. Does that make sense? Hope so.
Then, I trimmed off the outer edges since my printer won’t bleed the image to the edge of the paper and taped two of the pieces together to wrap around the hat box.
If I was Martha Stewart, I would have figured out precise measurements and made sure the patterns matched up at the meeting points, but I’m not and no one noticed that they were off by a hair.
Heck, no one even noticed that I used the pattern from the invitation. Bummer. I think I was more proud about that than the cupcakes.
And, ooooh, the cupcakes. They were so good. Especially these with the chocolate cream cheese frosting. But so were the other chocolate cupcakes with the pink buttercream… the cake was more chocolatey. It’s a draw, I guess. Notice the second set of fondant toppers I made… smaller and cuter.
Check this one out. After covered in frosting I put these giant chocolate sprinkles on.
A big thanks to my new friend Liz in Greece who sent them to me. I think they’re actually made in Belgium, though. Look how shiny and big they are compared to the normal chocolate sprinkles I usually find. They taste great, they come in a big box and they even have a handy pourable spout. I love ’em!
And, so did she. The sprinkle ones were her favorite. She was so sweet. She almost made me tear up when she said they were the very best things I ever made for her.… then she said… except the Halloween Cake Pops … and except the Easter Basket Cupcakes. Cute. I’m just glad I made her smile.
Now… who wants a Cupcake Tower? I know. I know. I usually don’t do two giveaways in a row, but I actually liked this thing a lot!
It’s simple and easy to use.
It stays nested for storage and it even tilts slightly to give a better view of the cupcakes. And best of all, it was only $20 bucks! Score!
I liked it so much, I want someone else to enjoy it with me.
So, I’m gonna give away three of them.
- Just leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite cupcake flavor combination. I’m curious.
- Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win (either a blog link or email)
- Deadline to enter is
Tuesday, May 19th at 5:00 p.m.WINNERS BELOW (recorded by the comment time stamp) - Three winners will be chosen at random* and announced sometime Tuesday evening on this post.
* One winner will be chosen at random, using random.org’s integer generator.
Good Luck!
Oh my gosh, all the flavors you guys listed are making me crave some cupcakes. I’d take any flavor as long as I can have one right now… even coconut. And, by the way, I’m glad to see so many of you love red velvet as much as I do. And cream cheese frosting. Yum! Okay, let’s see who won from the 3,986 entries.
A big cupcake tower congrats to:
Commenter # 1879 – James-n-Amber
Commenter # 390 – Jessica
Commenter # 1796 – Camille
You are amazing. Absolutely amazing.
My favorite combo is an oldie but a goodie…yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Raspberry with Cream Cheese Frosting
theathertons at gmail dot com
Chocolate with white butter cream frosting!!!
cowsgomoo2@cox.net
Chocolate with chocolate icing and cherry filling! You never cease to amaze me!
Swiss Chocolate Cupcakes w/ Graham Cracker bottom … topped with Marshmallow Buttercream :)
Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!
Kelly
tnkjensen@comcast.net
tnkjensenfam.blogspot.com
Definitely chocolate brownie cupcakes with vanilla cream frosting! Yum!
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! Yum!
German chocolate with coconut pecan frosting.
My friend sent me a link to your blog – I LOVE the grad cap favors – I am thinking of trying to make some for my son’s graduation reception. Great website ….. very yummy!
ronpenny@newulmtel.net
wow, great giveaway! My favorite is white cake with good old fashioned buttercream frosting…Extra thick!
Thanks!
Lori
hmmmmm….
i can’t decide!
is it chocolate with chocolate?
or
strawberry with cream cheese?
or
banana with cream cheese????
LOVE your website – i’ve made many cake balls and cuppycakes from your inspiration and gotten so many compliments! thanks for sharing!!!!
de
deannamvaughan@yahoo.com
Carrot-cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! I don’t find them very often.
Chocolate with cheesecake filling!
Love the hatboxes too!
BreeLinne@sbcglobal.net
banana and whipped cream creamed cheese frosting
camaman02 {at} yahoo {dot} com
Chocoholics’ favorite chocolate on chocolate with chocolate sprinkles!!
Strawberry Cake with cream cheese frosting–and you can’t forget to sprinkle the toasted coconut on top!!!!
http://myfavoriterecipes-rejoice.blogspot.com/
c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e with buttercream
Chocolate . . . anything chocolate!!
It’s a toss up between chocolate with chocolate frosting (with a big glass of milk), or red velvet with cream cheese frosting (also with milk). Thanks for the great ideas as always!
rachelsugden@gmail.com
I like pumpkin with cream cheese or vanilla buttercream frosting.
German chocolate for me, please!
Chocolate on chocolate!!
jessicaburnell@gmail.com
Chocolate and buttercream!
kecox@live.com
Red velvet with cream cheese icing, topped with chocolate chips :) MMMMMM!
I have to say I love cake balls, but cupcakes are my favorite thing to make! I LOVE Chocolate cake with Milk chocolate icing. The recipe from Pioneer woman you posted with the Best Chocolate cake recipe ever! YUM!!
Simply Amazing…Keep it coming girl your “tops” with the creativity!!
My favorite cupcakes are white cake with almond extract and apricot filling. Then top with a nice vanilla and almond buttercream. Mmmmm!
bic_nik@yahoo.com
I think I have to go with red velvet with cream cheese icing too! Yum!
anything with cream cheese! Seriously!!
Hey it’s a cupcake, I don’t descriminate, LOL!
Orange Creamsicle cupcakes from the bakery near my office but they only make it on Fridays. :o(
I LOVE your blog and am so glad I found it! I am constantly sharing something I found here with someone else. My favorite cupcake flavor is coconut cake, injected with a cream, topped with a whipped white icing and fresh grated coconut. Not the easiest thing I make, but I get my college student kids to help with the hard parts. Well, actually, none of it is hard, and they do most of the work. hahahahaha! I come up with the ideas, buy the stuff and make them pretty! BTW, I could really use that cupcake stand. I keep borrowing my nieces everytime I have an event. Keep on blogging. I get happy when I see you have added something new. :O)
Robin (macracket@aol.com)
Strawberry cupcakes with vanilla frosting.
sugarsick1230@gmail.com
I like almond cupcakes with pitaschio icing….YUM!
Plain vanilla with sprinkles.
joycelau319 at yahoo dot com
Strawberry cake and cream cheese icing…been my favorite my whole life! :)
I like classic old Red Velvet!
I’m a strawberry fanatic. with just plain vanilla buttercream. Kinda plain but oh so good.
lanasouth@yahoo.com
hi-hats OR vegan with a vengance chocolate mint
It is so hard to pick a favorite, I love them all….but I guess my favorite would be Strawberry with margarita icing mmmmmmm!
well I’m probaby toast being so late in the game. But My favorite cupcake flavor is a vanilla cupcake with a lemon curd filling and then a cream cheese, vanilla bean frosting. We go nuts for them around here for sure!! Need a cupcake tower for a baby shower I’ve been asked to make cupcakes for on the 31st in fact…oh oh this would be great…or perhaps I’ll go in search of hat boxes!
rachel(at)bartlettlearningsolutions(dot)com
My mom’s chocolate cake and buttercream frosting.
Martha Stewart’s chocolate with buttercream…mmmm! I love your hat box idea and do plan to syeal it. It is so dainty and adorable! I am totally impressed!
alicia_iery@bellsouth.net
Chocolate with vanilla frosting has to be the best!
My new favorite homemade is lemon with lemon buttercream!
But Fleur de Sel from kara’s cupcakes is my favorite if I’m buying from a bakery.
rebecca.gilbreth@gmail.com
Like a few others….I LOVE just chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing! :) YUM!!!!
sofiasmom@sbcglobal.net
I love all kinds of cupcakes but my favorite is probably vanilla cupcake with buttercream icing!
Oh my gosh… how to choose!?!?! I loooove carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, but I love ALL cupcakes.
***BAKERELLA***
WHERE DO I START? YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION! I LOVE CHECKING YOUR BLOG ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR NEW IDEAS! I LOVE THESE LITTLE CUPCAKES TOO THEY TURNED OUT JUST PERFECT! CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE!! :) AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LINK OF “WHERE TO SHOP” I HAVE GROWN A VERY SIMILAR LOOKING ASSORTMENT IN ONE CORNER OF MY KITCHEN SINCE READING YOUR BLOG!! I CALL IT MY “BETTY CROCKER/BAKERELLA CORNER”
KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB AN THANK YOU AGAIN!
KELLY
mctweetracing@charter.net
i want giant chocolate sprinkles! they would look sooo cute on a cupcake tower,….
bdaniella83@hotmail.com
my favorite cupcake flavor is from a book called the Cupcake Doctor. It’s the monkey cupcakes- which are banana with cinnamon. they’re amazingly easy to make and so incredibly delicous smelling.
gosh. I’m going to have to go and make them soon!
fun tower!
lemon with buttercream. :)
puppycarissa@live.com
I just love your ideas…keep ’em coming. my favorite cupcake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
freddyr3@verizon.net
My favorite has to be good ole’ white boring cake with dark chocolate …. YUM-O….oh lemon too!
You never did tell us how you transported them and kept them fresh when making them before. I’m interested in knowing your trick.
And the stand via Martha is genius!
I love a good old fashioned yellow cupcake with fabulous chocolate frosting on it. I’m definitely going to have to try this chocolate cream cheese frosting though. Fabulous!
Chocolate!!! YUMMMO! Your display is just beautiful!
Laura M
chocolate with dark choclate buttercream! or chocolate cherry. so yummy!
http://boweryhollow.blogspot.com
I like Chocolate with Strawberry icing.
cpreston@fivearea.com
I love them all, but I really enjoyed the cupcakes at Magnolia’s in NY. You can only purchase 1 dozen, so me, my husband and my son all came back home to Georgia with a box of cupcakes in our lap. If you haven’t looked at their cookbooks, I think you would really love them!!
Cupcake Cheers-
Donna
dspound@optilink.us
classic-chocolate cake and chocolate icing.
Yellow cake with butter cream or vanilla frosting, yum! Though I'd likely eat or try any cupcake presented to me, lol!
I love your blog! You rock! I made the red velvet cake balls at Christmas time & everyone loved them & ate them right up!
brandielynn@charter.net
Chocolate with white icing!
Chocolate with chocolate icing. I’m simple! :c)
I’d love a cupcake tower!
Bring on the chocolate with chocolate inside and chocolate on top. And don’t forget the chocolate. Need I say more?
snbjork@yahoo.com
Yellow cake with lemon glaze
Love the hat box idea…that Martha she is my hero! I am always refering back to my mags. My favorite cupcake is strawberry cake with a slight hint of strawberry frosting. decorated of course!
christiner1@verizon.net
i love orange cake and vanilla buttercream together! Yummy!
I would have to say Pumpkin Chocolate chip, with cream cheese frosting!!!
ash_sidd@hotmail.com
Just when I think you you can’t do anything else as adorable as the cake pops you go and do something like this. Come on now, you make the rest of us look bad.
My all time fave cupcakes are raspberry filled vanilla with lemon butter cream icing. Can we say YUM-O!!
Hi..So the odds that i win dont look so good lol. but i thought i’d give it a try anyways…my favorite cupcake is plain ole vanilla with a buttercream frosting…my email is sarahcresswell_522@yahoo.ca
Black Bottomed Cupcakes!
Ooohhh..favorite combo flavor. I like good ol’ chocolate on chocolate but red velvet w/cream cheese icing is pretty darn good!
Green Tea with chocolate!:)
I’m pretty plain, I like Chocolate with butter cream frosting
Maybe I am just a classic type of girl- but I like the simple yellow cupcakes filled with vanilla pudding and topped with chocolate sauce… mini Boston Cream Pies…. yummm
lwhn_203@yahoo.com
Chocolate ganache! YUM!
Chose a favorite? That’s nearly impossible. Let’s see…lemon with lemon glaze? Chocolate with mocha icing? Today, I’ll go with coconut with toasted coconut frosting!
Maybe I am just a classic type of girl- but I like the simple yellow cupcakes filled with vanilla pudding and topped with chocolate sauce… mini Boston Cream Pies…. yummm
i like chocolate icing better than chocolate cake, so any flavor on bottom is great. and, i like uncommon pairings too.
kasey.boatright@gmail.com
http://www.kaseybphotography.com
Devils Food Cake and cream cheese icing! I am having a tea party for my six year old daughter in two weeks and the cupcakes would look awesome on that tower…hint hint!
Red velvet with cream cheese icing.
Lemmon cumpcakes with cream cheese frosting… yummy!
How long did it take you to make and Decorate your 50 cupcakes???
rora1313@sbcglobal.net
My Favorite is Strawberry with cream cheese frosting…yummy!!!!
Sara Dean
funkesm@yahoo.com
Those are really cute
Those are beautiful cupcakes! You are always so creative! I love doing your chocolate zucchini cupcakes with a chocolate fudge topping. Yuuummmmmm! :o)
luv2c_cultures@hotmail.com
Chocolate with toasted coconut sounds yummy to me!!!
I just made a keylime cupcake that I am just lovin : )
I am such a cupcakes fan, in fact I’m entering for a 3er year in a rode a bazzar next week and I will be offering for a novelty different tipes of cupcakes aside from the marshmallow pops,gummy pops, cereal pops and my specialty, the most mouth watering coconut-nut-date macaroon you ever tasted including a cupcake with that macaroon as a topping, so YYYUUUUMMMMM!
michiquirrini@hotmail.com
Strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting…Great work :D
I’m a chocolate on chocolate kind of a girl..
Good old fashioned yellow cake with choc frosting.
Teresa
I love chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing!!MMMMMMmmmmm!!
My recent favorite is mocha icing on a dark chocolate cupcake… it’s addicting, I tell you. :9
Thanks for the opportunity to win! I’ve always wanted one of these things.
I think my favourite is chocolate/chocolate, but reading all these combinations posted in the comments is very inspiring! I think I’ll have to branch out a bit!
I’m a big fan of caramel-filled devil’s food with vanilla buttercream. Oh, and I’m a big fan of you!
omg…I have lusted after a cupcake tower for *years*
cupcakes…hmmmm….yellow cupcakes with any kind of frosting!
chocolate and mint!
Yellow cake cupcakes with vanilla bean frosting!!!!!!!!! Yummy…
utspecialk16(at)yahoo(dot)com
I LOOOOOVE Southern Style Strawberry Cupcakes w/ Strawberry Cream Cheese Icing. Also, I made Reese Cupcakes w/ Peanut Butter Buttercream Icing which were to die for… I can’t pick one so I’m going with those two. :)
Yellow cake cupcakes with vanilla bean frosting!!!!!!!!! Yummy…
As I read this I couldn’t believe how much it sounded like me! I need to make 50-ish for a casual wedding reception and am stressing over how to display them all!
I need this display tower!
Definitely chocolate with cream cheese frosting!!!
candyw@cinci.rr.com
My favorite is coconut and chocolate frosting!!
renea_e_west@msn.com
Love your cupcakes! And Martha’s hatbox idea is fabulous!
My favorite cupcake is a S’mores cupcake (actually off of Martha’s site…chocolate graham cracker, I think she calls it?)….with a marshmallow fluff based buttercream….mmmmmmmmm!
melinda@keywood.us
red velvet with cream cheese icing!
jodieisner@hotmail.com
My new favorite is chocolate cupcake with caramel filling, ganache frosting and fleur
de sel (Fleur De Sel from Kara’s Cupcakes in Palo Alto)!
I really enjoy your blog!
My favorite cupcake flavor combo has got be red velvet with whipped mascarpone cream cheese! YUM!
leah.melissa@gmail.com
I have always loved good old devils food and cream cheese frosting.
ggmommy@chater.net
I’m a lemon on lemon kind of gal!
Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Can’t go wrong and it looks so pretty!
megan.holladay@yahoo.com
yellow cake with soaked with Jamaican rum cream, and Italian buttercream, mmmmmmm
chocolate with peanut butter frosting
I’m easy to please! Chocolate with Vanilla icing for me!
berrie333@yahoo.com
I just had the best cupcake a couple months ago, it was red velvet with a cinnamon buttercream frosting. Yummy!!
Julia
jboyack@hotmail.com
Lemon with a lemon cream cheese icing! yummo!
I’m a purist – chocolate with chocolate, thank you. :o)
pumpernickel@gmail.com
My favorite combo is chocolate on chocolate…not very original, I know, but what can I say!
Chocolate chunk/Devil’s Food cake with chocolate ganache, then chocolate buttercream. I can’t help it. I love the dark stuff. :)
Hershey’s perfectly chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing–MMM!
veryblessedmom@comcast.net
I love just a plain ol’ butter recipe yellow cupcake with a whipped icing.
mbramlett at ellijay.com
chocolate with chocolate frosting!!
I’m a plain kinda gal…..
My favorite would be just a plain ol’ butter recipe yellow cupcake with a whipped icing.
I’m NOT a chocolate gal (gasp!) so I’ll take any kind but that… one of my favorites is lemon cake with cream cheese icing. Yum!
anything rich in chocolate is a winner in my book!
Ginger and cream cheese. Mostly just cream cheese.
tehshineh[@]gmail.com
Chocolate with boiled frosting ~ not unusual but my favorite!! Oh do you have a good boiled frosting recipe??
Thanks for the chance to win!
Angela :)
anbrdo @ yahoo . ca
Vanilla with Chocolate frosting. Mmm. alicia.west@yahoo.com
chocolate with buttercream! I’d love to try that chocolate cream cheese frosting, though.
I LOOOOOVE Southern Style Strawberry Cupcakes w/ Strawberry Cream Cheese Icing. Also, I made Reese Cupcakes w/ Peanut Butter Buttercream Icing which were to die for… I can’t pick one so I’m going with those two. :)
I want one for my daughter’s birthday! She’s into dino’s this year, so I want to make cupcakes w/ little fondant dinosaurs instead of one big cake so I can do lots of different kinds.
My favorite cupcake is dark chocolate with raspberry in the middle, and vanilla icing.
Thanks!
I would have to say that my favorite is strawberry with cream cheese icing. Just thinking about it makes me want to make some now!
selawson1463@yahoo.com
I love anything chocolate. The richer, the better. That’s why cupcakes are small, built in portion control. :)
It is Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate in this house!! Personally, I would prefer carrot with cream cheese icing but I get vetoed by the 2 year old princess!!
stampdax@yahoo.ca
I love looking at your photos, they really get me inspired. My favorite cupcake combo has to be french vanilla cupcakes with almond flavored frosting. I make these using a cannolli cake based recipe and they’re always a hit!
http://www.vanillaandthyme.blogspot.com
Chocolate with peanut butter frosting, it’s the best.
Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting… yum!
red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
ellyscupcakes@gmail.com
Vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting !!!
I love white cake with homemade chocolate cooked icing… it is very different! But if you like super dense and rich and creamy icing you would LOVE them too :O)
Give me white cake with a buttercram frosting any day!yum
Chocolate with chocolate frosting!!! You can never have too much chocolate! *drool*
Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting.
Either red velvet with cream cheese or lemon with lemon!
olson_maryellen@yahoo.com
Mint icing, dark chocolate cupcake :)
i absolutely love vanilla cupcakes with coconut frosting
I have an addiction to white cake with buttercream frosting for cuppy cakes! So simple sooo yummy!
I like dutch chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Yum!!
Red Velvet with Cream Cheese frosting!!!
h-angulo@hotmail.com
Gorgeous cupcakes!
I love pumpkin with maple cream cheese frosting. And red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Or chocolate with vanilla buttercream. Yum!
Root beer float…root beer cake with vanilla bean buttercream and root beer glaze on top…mmmmmmm.
Carrot cake and Cream cheese!
Dark Chocolate with dark chocolate frosting!
jeniseitz@comcast.net
I like Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting!! Harder to do as cupcakes because they dry out… but totally worth it!!
I love lemon cake with cream cheese frosting. If you need a filling, then I would go with a lemon gel filling. Yum!!
heb_11_1@hotmail.com
I love Barefoot Contessa’s coconut cake with raspberry filling! Yummy! BTW, love how you rolled some in sugar. Way pretty!
I love chocolate cupcakes that use real butter. What’s the use in making them without butter?!
Beth
beth_black49@hotmail.com
I keep it pretty simple with yellow cake and chocolate frosting. But I’m open to all kinds…equal opportunity cupcake lover :)
old fashion yellow with mocha butter cream frosting.. yumm..
Suzan says….there is nothing better than a yellow cake cupcake with chocolate buttercream icing
Vanilla with vanilla buttercream. Yummy.
meangreenbean@gmail.com
I like lemon with cream cheese frosting….well I pretty much like any with cream cheese frosting.
jmkkjohnson@yahoo.com
I have a great recipe for carrot cake cupcakes with pineapple-cream cheese icing and candied pistachios for the top.
ak_turner@msn.com
German chocolate with coconut frosting! Delicious!
Why chocolate cupcake with chocolate buttercream icing of course! What elese is there? :)
paula
pdun776@aol.com
I am so in love with these cupcakes…I wish I had seen them a couple of weeks ago for my son’s 1st communion. Too cute! I especially love the coordinating cupcakes/invitation part.
Chocolate with Strawberry icing!
http://www.gertrude.wordpress.com
mmmmm….. chocolate cupcakes with mint frosting…. DEEE-LISH!!
Strawberry with cream cheese frosting…my Mom still bakes me this cake for my birthday every year, even though I’m grown!
Thank you for talking about the chocolate sprinkles. I have seen those in the supermarkets, and the only thing that stopped me buying those, was the taste, I never knew if they taste good or not?
Thnaks to you I am going to buy those tommorrow. Do you know they come in pink, and white too?
By the way if I win, My e-mail address is rtayari@hotmail.com
Thank you for the inspiring blog, and have a nice day.
I love a carrot cake cupcake! Oh so yummy!
lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting!! or chocolate chocolate chocolate with chocolate :)
My favorite is Chocolate with chocolate frosting. And of course Chocolate sprinkles on top!
I haven’t ever gotten to wild with cupcake flavors. I do like dark chocolate raspberry and orange chocolate though.
Yellow cupcake with chocolate icing.
Chocolate and cream cheese!!! jaymissy1@hotmail.com
Chocolate wiht peanut butter icing!!!
My favorite is just yellow cake with chocolate frosting I’m pretty traditional. I hope I win I LOVE CUPCAKES!! My email is eggl1800@bears.unco.edu. Thanks.
i love chocolate cupcake with buttercream frosting.
irene_v0302@yahoo.com
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate!
Wow!!!! I would have loved anything like that when I was young…wait now works too! :D
i would have to say lemon with a lemon cream cheese frosting….thanks for all of the inspiration…carlyl1582@aol.com
I absolutely love your cupcakes and how you tied it all to the invitation. As for cupcakes- I am partial to yellow with chocolate butter cream. But anything other than icky grocery store lard icing will do the trick.
Vanilla cake with key lime buttercream frosting.
WOW! 4 tiers, SUPER CUTE! I would love one. As always, your cuppies were precious. Can’t wait til tomorrow. Thanks for all the great givaway chances.
bondgirl7@verizon.net
chocoloate with cream cheese frosting.
Chocolate cake with white buttercream icing
sandy.morris@cox.net
WOW, 4 tiers! SUPER CUTE, I would love one, thanks for the chance to win one via givaway. As always, the cuppies were precious. Can’t wait til tomorrow.
bondgirl7@verizon.net
I am a simple simple girl and I can not go wrong with Carrot cake and a cream cheese frosting. drool!
I love lemon. But to be honest I am a simple chocolate with chocolate frosting kinds gal. Give me some vanilla ice cream and I am in heaven.
I hope I win! But with 2600+ comments I highly doubt it! But here is for hoping!
Chocolate and Chocolate, and yours are absolutely beautiful and my mouth is now watering.
There is a cupcake place in Jacksonville Florida (where my sister lives) that puts all other cupcake places to shame (and I just moved to Florida from NYC, so please know I’ve been around the cupcake block so to speak). The place is called Cami Cakes and they make one cupcake in particular that is AMAZING “The Elvis” – chocolate cake, with peanut butter/banana frosting. That’s my flavor combo favorite. If I were on death row, this would be my last meal. About 100 of them. I’ve asked them to move to Miami, but no luck for me. However, you are getting one in Atlanta I believe. To say I am jealous is not strong enough.
(I SWEAR I have no connection to this place at all!!! I really wish I did though!!!)
-Erin (egb923@aol.com)
Mmmm, cream cheese frosting on carrot cake cupcakes. Yum!
caitlynelissa@yahoo.com
I am a traditionalist..chocolate with white icing. stacy.peters@sbcglobal.net
My favorite combo is lime zest Cake with a lime glaze! Yumm.
Pretty much anything with a cream cheese frosting is fine by me… maybe carrot cake underneath…
Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting
eachofamily@comcast.net
Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter creme filling and chocolate ganache frosting. Yummy!
Your cupcakes look great!
jenlen@charter.net
Vanilla bean cupcake with chocolate buttercream :) Yum!!!
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I love rich chocolate with creamchease topping!