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
I would LOVE to win the tower — the theme for my daughter’s first birthday party in June is cupcakes (she has a gorgeous pink gingham dress with smocked cupcakes around the collar, but I digress…) and this would be perfect for the party.
Oh, and my favorite flavor is red velvet with cream cheese icing. YUM!
Simple sweet vanilla cupcake with chocolate buttercream… yum!
yellow cake, chocolate icing…yum!
shelly7997@hotmail.com
We make this almond cake with a whipped almond buttercream frosting that is pretty tasty. Cool giveaway, thanks!
white with lemon curd filling and lemon cream cheese icing! I so want those giant jimmies now :)
I love vanilla with chocolate cream cheese frosting…and sometimes a little filling hidden in the cake!!!MMMMMMMM-
jmontpet@twcny.rr.com
My FAVORITE combo is banana, peanut butter, and chocolate….in anything at all!!! :)
Thanks so much – this is awesome!
You rock!
I love mint chocolate chip with a buttercream frosting…yum!
nikivalentine214@aol.com
Oh my. Favorite huh? Has to be chocolate. With whipped chocolate frosting. Aw man, now I’m hungry!
I love them all but especially Cheese cake cup cakes!
Reesbeach@aol.com
Carrot cake cupcakes with crushed pineapple – cream cheese frosting -yummy
your site is great! thanks for all the info.
i LOOOOVVE chocolate or carrot cupcakes with cream cheese icing…just made some two days ago!
vanilla-vanilla, the standard, arguably boring, but done right, unbeatable!
I love lemon filling with white cupcake surrounding it!
johnsrachel at gmail dot com
Chocolate with chocolate buttercream! I’m a purist.
Lemon with lemon cream cheese. Citrus is the best!
Orange chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! Yours are the cutest!
etanaka@umhb.edu
For me, Cupcakes must be chocolate cake topped with a rich, buttercream frosting! You know, the kind we first tasted in the second grade from the Mom that brought them in for the whole class to celebrate her kids’ birthday. Yum!
By the way – FOUND CAKE ART and it was Marvelous. You are quite the celeb there! :-) THANK YOU for the tip!
Plain and simple… Yellow cake with Chocolate buttercream… YUM!!!
Chocolate Cupcake with Raspberry Cream filling, MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
red velvet and cream cheese or i just tried this “jalapeno” cupcake – it was corn bread with bits of jalapeno and mango cream cheese on top. YUMMY.
Lemon cupcake with cream cheese icing, but really I have to say I love all cup cakes almost equally!
Strawberry with cream cheese!
lms51547@hotmail.com
I LOVE these sweet cupcakes!! The color combination is lovely. I must say that my favorite cupcake is chocolate with a raspberry flavored buttercreme. Our local bakery makes them…divine!! If only I had the recipe!
My favorite is red velvet cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Yummm!
lmerritt@hotmail.com
I love Raspberr and Dark chocolate cupcakes at our local cupcake shop. Yum!
Chocolate with cream cheese….yum!
Steef
I must say that all these flavors have given me new baking ideas! Thanks :-)
My fav cupcake combo is chocolate cupcake with mint frosting!
Thanks for the chance to win. Great looking blog post, well done!
http://whatdidkatiedid.blogspot.com/
I like chocolate with cream cheese frosting.
Vanilla with butter cream icing…you can’t beat simplicity!
I love peanut butter with chocolate ganache…it reminds me of a a reese’s peanut butter cup!
You did such a nice job on the cupcakes – it looks like a lot of work to me!
t5nrlouden@yahoo.com
I also like Lemon cupcake with Lemon buttercream or it can be just a plain yellow cupcake with Lemon Buttercream icing.
Chocolate with Cream cheese frosting, would love that display for parties.
ldstowe@hotmail.com
Thanks for the opportunity to offer my opinion and enter your contest!
Red velvet with vanilla buttercream frosting is a hit at our home!
my favorite, absolute favorite is red velvet cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing! I have to admit..my boyfriend made these for me for this past Valentine’s day … DELICIOUS!!!
Martha’s chocolate cupcake recipe and cream cheese frosting.
I would LOVE the tier as I do a lot of entertaining/parties as a wanna-be caterer. :)
Thanks Bakerella!!
Mandy pianopraise80@hotmail.com
My favorite cupcake: Chocolate with caramel filling and burnt sugar frosting. Heaven in a paper liner!
Carrot with cream cheese frosting.Pretty simplistic but I love it! Perhaps it’s because I feel less guilty about binging on them since there is a vegetable involved?
sihaya11@gmail.com
Chocolate with mint frosting, with chocolate sprinkles on top :)
troyandrebecca@yahoo.com
Dark Chocolate and Raspberry
I would love to see something red white and blue theme for 4th of July. Maybe red velvet and a butter cream. Decorations stars and firecrackers- it looks like you can have some shooting out of the top of the stand.
german chocolate with coconut frosting all the way
Chocolate with Almond Buttercream – Classic!
emiscakes.blogspot.com
Chocolate with 7-minute frosting…sigh
marjadesign@mac.com
The cupcakes are beautiful! My favorite is a carrot cake cupcake with a cream cheese frosting. Thanks for the chance to win a cupcake tower!
nanhw1@hotmail.com
Chocolate/chocolate.. pumpkin/cream cheese… vanilla/buttercream with sprinkles.. changes with the season but cupcakes are just a happy food anyway!!!
k.cramblet@yahoo.com
The chocolate looks delicious – that was my favorite! What chocolate buttercream recipe did you use for it? and sparkling in such a lovely way – just regular sugar? I think cupcakes are so fun – I would love the tower! Thanks for all your cute ideas – you are so creative and talented!
a delicious orange cupcake with a deep dark chocolate topping !!
ok .. now you’ve done it .. im off to my kitchen to do some baking !!
LOL
I love chocolate and peanut butter, yum!!
German chocolate with coconut frosting all the way
My Mom always makes Graham cookie cupcakes with a caramel fudge frosting ( think penuch), for Christmas. They are my absolute favorites and sometimes make them, when I feel homesick.
I just had a wonderful Margarita cupcake that was wonderful! I think it was topped with a lime buttercream.
chocolate with straberry buttercream
-Gini
funky9girl@yahoo.com
Butter Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting!!! The best! I can’t wait to try the hat box displays!
chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate (and cream cheese!)
lol
your cupcakes are so cute and I love how you were able to copy the invitation design! very clever!
Lemon with buttercream frosting!
The best ones.
choco peanutbutter rocks!
i love the mix of your cupcakes. looks gorgeous :)
I love chocolate cake with PB frosting! MMMMMMMMM I love your cupcakes – especially the ones with the sugar sprinkled on top!
christy633@yahoo.com
Wow, I always check your blog to see what’s new and exciting in the world of cupcakes. I have similar problems in transporting and displaying, that was a great solution!! Keep up the inspirational blog!!!
fandyksman@sasktel.net
chocolate upon chocolate, of course!
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting!
Chocolate Chocolate Chunk w/ Cream Cheese frosting! Delish’
These came out soooo great! Great idea using the pattern from the invitation! My favorite cupcake combo is vanilla with an orange flavored cream cheese frosting! It’s like a creamsicle! That frosting is great on chocolate cupcakes too!! :)
gedutisdesign@gmail.com
How do I stand a chance with over 3000 comments already! Double chocolate chip or apple spice! xx
Chocolate with chocolate cream cheese frosting!
Love it!! My favorite would have to be just basic white cake with buttercream icing. No sprinkles or extra anything.
White cake with whipping cream. Light and aaaaa-mazing.
Also, did you know that the “real” way to eat hagelslag is on a sandwich with butter? It’s a Dutch/Belgian thing.
my favorite could be strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting.
i also want to try red velvet with a chocolate ganache pretty sure that would be a favorite too!
your cupcakes look wonderful! love the hat box, i’m going to have to try that.
http://www.ohhellocupcake.blogspot.com
ohhellocupcake@gmail.com
Key Lime or Red Velvet… yum!
Vanilla with chocolate buttercream frosting
love strawberry with cream cheese! so gooooood!
brangela @ comcast dot net
Ooh, great job with the cupcakes. My favorite flavor? Hmm. I recently had a chocolate/caramel buttercream that was awesome. And I always love the pb/chocolate combo!
I love strawberry with cream cheese frosting.
Alcrow96@hotmail.com
Chocolate with lemon curd <3
By the way, the 'giant sprinkles' you're talking about, are from Holland, and are actually called 'hagelslag'(try to pronounce that;)) I live in Holland, and we actually put them on our bread! So greetings from one of your dutch fans;)
Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. Simple and delicious!
my fave is chocolate and pink – i could do everything chocolate and pink!
My favorite flavor cupcake is a yellow cake with a chocolate chip cookie ball right in the middle, inside of the cupcake. It’s like biting into a cake and cookie at the same time. Yum. This tastes great with either a chocolate or vanilla icing.
lafffytaffy@gmail.com
I know the chances are slim at this point, but I would LOVE, LOVE to win this! It’s PERFECT!
fAVORITE cupcake…I love a strawberry with a cream cheese frosting. YUM
hollowayfam(at)yahoo.com
I love chocolate with raspberry flosting =)
csalazar28(at)gmail(dot)com
Banana Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting- Mmmmm
Lemon with a little shortbread crust on the bottom and a lemon curd filling. Delicious!
amcconkie@hotmail.com
Butter cake with Buttercream frosting-sounds boring, but is yummy!
Double, triple, quadruple CHOCOLATE (is there such a thing????) and lemon. Not together, of course. Maybe it would be good though…..I should try it!!!
dreher_16@msn.com
Red velvet with cream cheese~yum!
Loving this tower!
jenslaney@mac.com
ohhh, this is so very hard…lol
But, if I have to pick just one combo..
it would be chocolate cupcake with peanutbutter frosting :-)
My kids favorite is Strawberry cupcakes (I substitute half of the water for Strawberry juice) and top them with my grandmothers homemade “Mock Whip Cream” frosting. I have to admit they are pretty yummy, we make them for parties a lot and would work great on that tower!
jrheck@ptd.net
Red Velvet and cream cheese, always always always!!
emilyfrickenstein@gmail.com
Oops favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough… I make my own just add some cookie dough and voila!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
Oops favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough… I make my own just add some cookie dough and voila!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
Oops favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough… I make my own just add some cookie dough and voila!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
Oops favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough… I make my own just add some cookie dough and voila!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
It doesn’t get any better than chocolate.
This could not have happened at a bett time.. I Have to make 30 cupcakes for school… AGH!!! How do I get them all there!! I live in the country and we have bumby roads so my cookies and cupcakes always fall off the seat!!! I Do hope I win I do hope I Win!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
This could not have happened at a bett time.. I Have to make 30 cupcakes for school… AGH!!! How do I get them all there!! I live in the country and we have bumby roads so my cookies and cupcakes always fall off the seat!!! I Do hope I win I do hope I Win!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
This could not have happened at a bett time.. I Have to make 30 cupcakes for school… AGH!!! How do I get them all there!! I live in the country and we have bumby roads so my cookies and cupcakes always fall off the seat!!! I Do hope I win I do hope I Win!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
Gorgeous Cupcakes! Love the pink and brown combination.
I love a french vanilla cupcake with milk chocolate frosting, yum!
cheesece@yahoo.com
I love rich chocolate with chocolate topping.
callen3000@yahoo.ca
This could not have happened at a bett time.. I Have to make 30 cupcakes for school… AGH!!! How do I get them all there!! I live in the country and we have bumby roads so my cookies and cupcakes always fall off the seat!!! I Do hope I win I do hope I Win!!!
Melissa
artdva@gmail.com
I’m pretty boring…I like yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting and some of the round sprinkles. My sweet kids made a cake like this for me for Mother’s Day and I loved it!!!
sp1229jasmine@yahoo.com
I like chocolate and meringue.
So good…
Steffie
My favorite is apple cake (cupcakes) with cream cheese frosting.
BPD166@gmail.com
I’ve always been a chocolate lover but I’ve recently fell in LoVe with Yellow cake and Wilton’s buttercream frosting. YUM!! Beautiful cupcakes!
Lime and sweet almond, yummm
Beautiful presentation!
My favorite is the classic chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting.
I love these! You must be the mom that they ask to bake everything! Love your blog!
I can’t pass up Red velvet with cream cheese frosting. I have an addiction to cupcakes. (Making and eating) Would LOVE to have the cupcake tower! :)
I just love cupcakes! My favorite is vanilla with buttercreme frosting! You inspire me Bakerella!
mdoeling@gmail.com
Chocolate with amaretto frosting
I have to go with a classic vanilla with chocolate (with sprinkles obv!) and then for something a little different, chocolate with coconut!
Lemon with lemon frosting ;o)
cassielsnow@hotmail.com
Classic Yellow cake with buttercream frosting with a few mini m&ms on top…so good!
wooww! looks amazing! my favorite type of cupcakes are chocolate, banane and coconut! apsoulately yummyy!!!
yaseminmutfakta@hotmail.com
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Carrot cake with orange cream cheese frosting.
Anything with chocolate wins with me!
kathrindecker at gmail dot com
Chocolate with cream cheese icing!!
I want to try these, they are beautiful.
gregpowell1@aol.com
Leigh Ann Powell
Chocolate with Cream Cheese is awesome! And I must say again, you are amazing!!! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love dark chocolate cake with chocolate Icing Yumm.
My fav cupcake flavor is yellow cake with chocolate icing. Yummy! It can have sprinkles on top too!
texjoybell@aol.com
Chocolate with chocolate icing! But it’s almost a 25-way tie! ;o)
I love Lemon cake w/ a fruit filling w/ Lemon Buttercream…mmmm
I love the basics………yellow cake with vanilla buttercream frosting topped with shredded coconut. Makes my mouth water just thinking about eating one.
Thank you for sharing your joy of giving and sharing your passion.
smiles,
Linda Cronkite
stampmyworld at gmail dot com
Vanilla cake with homemade strawberry frosting. Yummm…I think I will make them today.
magnuson.d at gmail dot com
a must have is a delicious orange cake with a deep dark chocolate icing.
Chocolate with Chocolate Buttercream! Some of these others sound interesting to try but, Chocolate always my favorite!
Hi Bakerella
My fave cupcake flavour has to be caramel apple, apple sponge with melted caramel running through the middle, And a slight crumble topper!!!! MMMmmmmm MMMmmmmm!!! Found them in a wonderful bakery in Snowdonia….
Love your work Bakerella!
sarz_101@hotmail.com
Chocolate and Peanut butter by far.
katestiles@yahoo.com
chocolate with chocolate buttercream. Or yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. But never chocolate with vanilla buttercream. That’s a waste of a perfectly good cupcake ;-)
Thanks for the chance to win!
I love anything chocolate…like double chocolate!…lol… I also like lemon a lot too. But I’ve never had it but a lemon meringue cupcake would be awesome…:)
Anything with cream cheese frosting does it for me.
My fav combo would have to be chocolate and Banana with a cheese cake filling. or Chocolate and cherry cupcake with cheese cake filling… Yummy and top it off with a whip cream topping..
rdn_news@yahoo.com
Roger Newswanger
Chocolate cupcake witha reese PB cup in side covered in PB icing!
http://www.fatgirlcakes.com
WOW, this is absolutely beautiful. And great ideas for our daughters graduation party – the key lime w/coconut sounds fabulous, but lemon is also one of my favorites. I can’t loose with this post, great ideas plus a chance to win the tower – :) Barb
Waldsb651@aol.com
Just found your blog today. So excited, your work is amazing. i’m looking for ideas for my daughter’s 1yr bday party. She turns 1 exactly one month from today!! My favorite flavors are red velvet, and i’m intrigued by your chocolate and cream cheese icing! have to try it. Thank you!
I’m a choco-holic so chocolate and chocolate is my fave! I love the hat box idea! Thanks!
coconut with coconut frosting and strawberry with cream cheese.
Coconut with coconut frosting, complete with toasted coconut on top!
My favorite cupcake is Almond Cream Cheese Poundcake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting! Yummy!!
Cindy
peepthisyall@yahoo.com
I like Chocolate with Strawberry icing. Plain I know.
cpreston@fivearea.com
I love chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting. Yummy!
Lauried32@gmail.com
I’m a red velvet with cream cheese frosting girl! Oh how I wish I had known about your blog back in December when I made 80 cupcakes for my grandmother’s 80th bday…
Oh well…my son does his communion next year, so now I have inspiration!!
and maybe a cupcake tower!!
Nina
neena626@aol.com
I love mostly ALL cupcakes but Chocolate Peanut Butter is my favorite!
i make a graham cracker cupcake with toasted marshmallow filling (twinkie-style injection) and a chocolate ganache frosting.
chocolate with raspberry.
handsandnails(at)sbcglobal.net
Anna
Hmmmm…any cupcake is a good cupcake. But if I had to choose, I’d say a vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting. Mmmmm….
Beautiful job, as always!
I love a good old-fashioned yellow cake (from scratch) with chocolate ganache on it!
Chocolate, Raspberry and Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is great!! Actually, I recently posted a recipe on my blog that uses all three!
kristajoyonline.blogspot.com
krista at joyscakesandconfections dot com
Beautiful cupcakes! I love a classic chocolate cupcake!
These are beautiful! My favorite is mayonnaise chocolate with peanut butter frosting.
Catherine
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream!!! I think I’ll go make some right now!!
maha dot khatib at gmail dot com
Hi!!
My favorite is chocolate with frosting of cheese cake with raspberries!!!Wonderful!!!
I’m from Brazil and I love your blog…congratulations!!
My e-mail is carlask@terra.com.br.
Carlaf
Anything with cream cheese icing! Mmmm…by the way, my 3 yr old daughter is standing next to me BEGGING me for one of your cupcakes! :)
Amy in SC
I love Chocolate Cupcakes with Cherry frosting! YUM!
I love any cupcake with cream cheese frosting! I once had some carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting….mmmmmmmmm…. yummy!
Yummy! coconut with coconut cream icing!
Your the BOMB! You explode with ideas!
Strawberry w/ Cream Cheese icing, hasn’t changed from when I was a little girl…
Loved the cupcakes, what a cute idea!!
Dark chocolate with marshmallow icing! Yum!
I LOVE chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!!!
chocolate fudge with penuche icing is my brand new fave!
Oh how I wish I had my kids now instead of when you were a little girl! I am waiting impatiently for my grandkids so I can spoil them with your goodies! I like walnut brownie cupcakes with melted chocolate drizzled over them for my favorite cupcake. Thanks!
These are amazing! You are amazing!
Your cupcakes are beautiful. Good job matching the invites! My favorite flavor combination woyld be dark chocolate and cherry!
mrmrsmatz@aol.com
How precious! I love chocolate and chocolate, but think I will try the chocolate cream cheese frosting!!
julieklewis@comcast.net
I’m a simple girl, vanilla cupcake and lots of vanilla icing! julieweinstein@hotmail.com
Lemon cupcakes with raspberry frosting (I’m not very original; but I know what I like!).
– Betsy (Betsy Brg
at aol
dot com)
Vanilla with cherry vanilla icing… yummy
bluemoon1070@yahoo.com
I would have to say that my absolute favorite is chocolate orange with cream cheese frosting! MMMmmmmmm…… The kind that just melts in your mouth!
cruehle@gmail.com
red velvet with cream cheese frosting
csmart218@yahoo.com
Of course white cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting. I’m very into white cake these days.
Great job on the cupcakes! My favorite flavor combo is white vanilla cake with jelly inside and peanut butter buttercream. Oohhh must have a glass of milk with it.
Yelenaj@gmail.com
Devil’s Food Cake with marshmallow filling and buttercream icing. Mmmmmmm. :)
Melissa
Yellow cake cupcake with no frosting, that’s right no frosting. I’m a little weird and just don’t like it!!
Chocolate with chocolate or banana nut with cream cheese frosting, or red velvet with cream cheese frosting… all my faves!
My favorite cupcake combination is red velvet and cream cheese frosting!
Your friend is very lucky, they are beautiful. Vanilla & Caramel all the way for me!
Favorite cupcake flavor? All. But perhaps a tasty chocolate cherry combination. That or good old fashioned vanilla with vanilla frosting.
tokyoshoes (at) hotmail (dot) com
It would have to be chocolate with German chocolate topping!
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Julie
My Fav Combo Is A Cupcake I Make…. Oh My Mimosa… Champagne Cake With Orance Cream Cheese Frosting! Delish!
Chocolate cupcakes with cherry buttercream. Yummy goodness!
I love the chocolate peanut butter filled cupcake from ? Food and Wine I think (or Gourmet magazine). You use a star tipped bag filled with peanut butter filling and insert it into the cupcake and finish with a small star on top. Yummy! I have gone baking crazy since finding your blog! I love how creative you are, how sweet you are, and how generous you are in sharing EVERYTHING! I loved your cupcake balls/pops. I have made the mini cupcakes, smiley faces and various solid colors. My husband, kids and their friends love them all…even the messier ones! You have done a gorgeous job photographing the cupcake tower. I love how some of the photos are blurred in the backround. And one last thing…..you have SOoooooooooo many followers! I am really impressed. You are awesome! Rareae00@aol.com
My first choice would be Key Lime with coconut meringue, but the second runner up is pumpkin with a glaze! Yummy!
Yellow cake, chocolate fudge icing piped in a generous swirl, chocolate sprinkles, seasonal cupcake liner! Classic!
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I love chocolate, so chocolate with buttercream!!
Devil’s food cupcakes. Pure buttercream. Heavenly! Carol
Yellow cupcakes drizzled/soaked with strawberry gelatin, then chilled and topped with whip cream.
Tastes like individual strawberry shortcakes.
Barbara
bakedbybabs@gmail.com
I am just now learning that there are cupcake eating places with all kinds of combo flavors I have never heard of.
I live in the country in the middle of about nowhere and love chocolate mayonnaise with choc frosting. If I ever get to a cupcake place I may find many more new flavors.
I just taught a cupcake themed class this past weekend (papercrafting). I would love a chance at winning a cupcake tower.
I’ve never had one of these but I often contemplate trying to make peanut butter and banana cupcakes, now that would be yummy!
jazzykav@googlemail.com
Red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
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chocolate with chocolate buttercream!
howellmg@ainweb.net
I love Lemon cupcakes filled w/raspberry and topped w/Lemon cream cheese frosting. YUMMY! I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!
I love key lime with buttercream frosting AND I love a good moist chocolate cake with buttercream frosting!!
Susan
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You just can’t beat chocolate on chocolate!
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thanks so much!
yummmm…chocolate with buttercream frosting. Tastes better when dyed pink, I’m convinced!
I love this tower, I have one…but just thought I’d tell you how much I love your post and how your such an inspiration!
My favorite cupcake combination? I would’ve said yellow cake with chocolate frosting but after reading all of these delicious combinations in the comments, I think my life has been entirely too sheltered!
Red velvet is my favorite cake and cupcake flavor.
Vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream! But there’s so many more!!
definitly chocolate!!!
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White Vanilla Sour Cream with Lemon Marscapone Mousse filling and plain buttercream frosting…so yummy! I hope I win…I have 5 kids, and I would love to have this for b-day parties!
sportsmom005@hotmail.com
I LOVE vanilla cupcakes with creamy vanilla buttercream. It is an oldie but a goodie!
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