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
First off ~ your cupcakes are BEAUTIFUL! You are so creative and such an inspiration! Second, I am 5 months preggo and reading everyone’s comments about delicious varieties of cupcakes has started a MAJOR craving for me! My favorite cupcakes have to be yellow cake with super-chocolately frosting, simple, but oh so good!
~aimezvous74@msn.com
Plain old yellow cake w/ chocolate frosting. Ooh, or a butter cake w/ vanilla buttercream. Who am I kidding, I don’t discriminate…all cupcakes are good!
I’m a plain jane……chocolate with chocolate frosting!!
I love chocolate on chocolate YUM This cupcake tower is great. Thanks for sharing all your great ideas. gloverkids at msn dot com
What beautiful cupcakes!! I love a chocolate cupcake with raspberry buttercream frosting. Yum…
Peanut butter and chocolate. Love your blog. babelshelton@hotmail.com
Carrot cake and cream cheese frosting! Sumeyye.
sumeyyesazak@hotmail.com
What amazing cupcakes!! Great job!! My favorite are Keylime cupcakes with graham cracker bottoms and cream cheese frosting :)
I love cream cheese frosting with chocolate!
Spice Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting….MMMMMM. Just thinking about those makes this prego woman hungry. Yeah for Cupcakes and Cupcake Towers.
mjeffery06@yahoo.com
I want to win this for my sister. She loves baking and decorating.
SENA.
tatli_cadi.99@hotmailcom.
Oh, Chocolate cake with peanut butter icing-sooo good!!
Favorite cupcake flavor combo is a tough one! I think its got to be chocolate cupcake with mint flavored buttercream icing! So yummy!
What a cute post! My favorite of all time is Red Velvet with a very mildly sweet cream cheese frosting. OR I am usually unable to resist Chocolate Cupcakes with a Boston or Bavarian Cream center and mild cream cheese frosting!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream!! And those new chocolate sprinkles..I could eat those by the spoonful! pulhamfamily@gmail.com
I love chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting – the best of both worlds!
Monica
My girlfriend makes red velvet to die for. Combine that with good old fashioned buttercream and you have a cupcake that leaves me filled with joy and the knowledge that all is right with the cosmos.
I love your designs! I also love a dark chocolate cupcake and ganache as a base flavor, plus any of the following -nutella, caramel, espresso, malted milk balls, toffee, toasted almonds, cherry, etc.!
sweetiesbykim@aol.com
Oh I would LOVE that cupcake tower! My favorite cupcake combination is rather easily… Chocolate on chocolate LOL … can be milk chocolate or dark chocolate icing… can be milk or devil’s food cake..Now I’m hungry! Thanks for this great contest!
Can’t go wrong with Red Velvet cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing! (jesca30@hotmail.com)
chocolate with chocolate…just love it.
Chocolate and chocolate icing! Delicious!
sumeyyesazak@hotmail.com
My wife would love this. Hope to win. Cem.
Cemsazak@hotmail.com
I like the combination. So cute!
sumeyyeyildizsazak@hotmail.com
My favorite has got to be CHOCOLATE, with a CHOCOLATE CENTER, with CHOCOLATE frosting, with CHOCOLATE sprinkles. You can NEVER have too much chocolate! =)
I’m boring – chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
Dark chocolate with raspberry frosting!
helaina@gmail.com
Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting — one of my favorite fall treats!!
Chocolate on chocolate…anything chocolate! Or maybe something lemon, too. No, definetly chocolate! Mmmmmmmm
I have no idea if I make the time, but I’ll happily share my favourite cupcake. It is made with dark chocolate, mandarin chesses cream topped with fresh strawberry’s. Mmmmm!
EWian
I love yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting…mmmm!!! Thanks for a really fun blog!!
Love those chocolate “jimmies”!!My Favorite Flavor is definitly Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting….its a southern thing ya’ll!
I love chocolate cake mix with white frosting. Yummy. Your cup cakes turned out adorable!
Lsteverson@hotmail.com
Chocolate with lots of fluffy chocolate frosting!
vicky.peterson@converse.com
Honey fig cupcakes with mascarpone frosting.
karinahubbell at comcast dot net
I love, love, love RED VELVET and a butter cream vanilla frosting cupcake. Divine!
ckelley at ferguson dot com
Umm…chocolate with cream cheese frosting. I found the recipe in your blog, the one that is from a bunt cake cookbook. It is made with a chocolate cake mix, add sour cream and mini chocolate chips. Everyone raves about them when I make them. Thanks for the great blog.
susancavazos@mac.com
White chocolate and homemade buttercream!! My wedding cake was made like this! So yummy!
Thanks for another chance to win! Love your work and ideas!
MMM so lovely and delicious. You are beyond talented! My favorite is plain old vanilla cupcakes with a sweet vanilla buttercream frosting.
Chocolate w/ Chocolate frosting.
I Love Chocolate.
tracy
rolfe87@localnet.com
Strawberry cake with kiwi frosting. They’re so great for summer.
Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! And some of those wacky chocolate sprinkles wouldn’t hurt, either.
beautiful cupcakes! I love red velvet with creamcheese frosting. yum!
My favorite cupcake is “blue velvet.” I use blue food coloring
in my red velvet cake recipe. AWESOME!
I love carrot cake with cream cheese! Pick me!
My favorite? Blue velvet – they’re YUMMY!
Loooooooooooove your stuff!! I imagine they are always as delicious as the look!
These cupcakes all look so yummy. My favorite, chocolate with white buttercream!
Love plain old yellow cake with chocolate frosting! Yum- I wish I could have one now.
Thanks!
cluthren@mailbox.sc.edu
I’m a red velvet/ cream cheese frosting fan!! Love your ideas and pops! Thanks for the chance to win!! Great Communion Cupcakes!! lcarter314@yahoo.com
Chocolate with Chocolate cream cheese! How much better does it get!
Red velvet cake with whipped buttercream frosting
I want one! I love most flavors of cupcakes and cakes. Love, love, love cream cheese frosting!
kayleen_longworth@yahoo.com
Sad to say – at 42 years old, my favorite is still Chocolate with Chocolate icing – I love making the fancy ones, but deep down, I love my chocolate!
Thanks!
I have to go with the classic vanilla cupcake with chocolate icing, or red velvet with cream cheese! Delicious!
Christine
I love all chocolate combos – milk chocolate, german chocolate, cream cheese – there are just too many good ole chocolates to select one combo! :)
Thanks for the chance!
Thanks for the chance to win :)
My fave cuppie cake has to be coconut with a cream cheese frosting with toasted coconut sprinkled on top! OMG YUUUMMMM!
imallp@yahoo.com or through my blog :)
Your efforts turned out BEAUTIFULLY!!! What a GREAT best friend!
My favorite cupcake combo is carrot cake with cream cheese:)
I am a plain cupcake girl. You can never go wrong with vanilla cake and buttercream icing. YUM!
Lauren.Mozingo.ncna@statefarm.com
Diane Christensen: I love banana nut! christensenfam@frontiernet.net
Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry frosting!
cksgranny@wildblue.net
I’m very simply, I love vanilla cakes with chocolate frosting :)
Yellow cake with chocolate icing – all the way!
Lemon and Buttercream.
I’m new to your blog and think it’s just great! I would have to say red velvet and carrot, both with cream cheese icing are a tie for my favorites.
I love chocolate cupcakes with coffee mocha frosting.. Mmm Mmm
I love white cake with chocolate frosting and a chocolate ganache. Yum!
Tres leches cupcakes (from Ultimate Recipe SHowdown on the Food Network) are my new favorite. You can take the girl out of Miami but you can definitely not take Miami out of the girl.
trueaggie98 at hotmail dot com
carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
I love red velvet with cream cheese frosting
WOW! Those cupcakes look fab!
I have many, many favourites, but at the moment I love moist chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate ganache and a swirl of white chocolate buttercream…although you can’t beat the dark chocolate and raspberry combination either.
I love chocolate cupcakes with a bailey’s irish cream mousse filling topped with buttercream icing. :) YUM!!!!
arcusick[at]gmail[dot]com
You are the Cupcake Master!!! I’ll take Italian Cream Cake with Cream Cheese frosting topped with crushed pecans anyday! So yummy.
http://thecartyparty.blogspot.com
I love chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream. I know boring but I am a chocolate devotee. tjforgoodnesscake@hotmail.com
I love chocolate with chocolate fudge icing. I found a homemade chocolate fudge icing that is sooo delicious from a book my husband bought me for xmas.
I just started getting into cake decorating and love making cupcakes.
Would love to win. thanks
Jackie
Chocolate on chocolate of course!
tupperbecki@yahoo.com
chocolate hazelnut with buttercream!
mmmm, delicious
Pumpkin spice with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Yummy!! :)
Yang1220@yahoo.com
Call me simple, but I love chocolate with chocolate!! I also like the RV cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. =)
red velvet with nutty cream cheese frosting!
ctseibert@yahoo.com
I LOVE Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting. WAY YUMMY! Thanks SO MUCH for a chance to win some goodies :)
Banana cupcake with Maple Frosting! Soooo good!
Right at this very moment, I am wanting a banana cake with chocolate chips and milk chocolate frosting!
You’re creations are awesome!
cgalangreed@gmail.com
lemon and lemon. yum!
It’s hard to pick a favorite. But I absolutely LOVE red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!!! =)
I have to go with the good old chocolate with chocolate frosting! You just can’t beet it. Although I might try adding some chocolate sprinkles to it! That looked so yummy!
calvarese2(at)gmail(dot)com
Chocolate with raspberry filling and chocolate raspberry frosting!!!
I love the hat box idea!!! I have a couple of stacking box sets & I would have never thought to use them that way – thank you!
My favorite cupcake combination right now is a peach cupcake with a cinnamon frosting!
I know I am boring but I love rainbow with rainbow chip frosting. It just says Happy Birthday and cupcakes to me. Or I could go for some Red Velvet and cream cheese frosting.
I want a tower!
alifinale.blogspot.com
I just loved your design, so cute. I love good old fashioned chocolate cupcakes the best!
Becky
Chocolate with Bailey’s Buttercream! We originally tried Guiness Cupcakes with Bailey’s Buttercream, but nobody liked the cupcakes – we’re not big beer drinkers, haha!
My email is anna.rhoswen@gmail.com
I love any cupcake with chocolate!
kerriboyd at yahoo dot com
Bakerella… I wish I had a really interesting and different kind of cupcake to say I enjoyed most.
But the truth is, I just love me some regular chocolate cupcakes with white icing.
And I make them so often that I really NEED that cupcake tower. :)
Can you please help a sista out? Thank you! You make beautiful stuff!
They look amazing! Perfect for a first communion! my fave cupcake is yellow cake with chocolate frosting, yum!
Sarah
handygirl698@yahoo.com
I love chocolate peanut butter with marshmallow frosting and graham cracker sprinkles!
Yummy!!
Strawberry cupcakes with real strawberry icing. So good!
Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting….one of my favorite fall treats!!
O choosing is so hard! Recently, I made a paula deen cake that I think would make an excellent cupcake! Raspberry-Limeade with Limeade cream-cheese frosting!
halhick08@yahoo.com
I love Lemon cupcakes(when they are hot and fresh) with Lemon frosting. We always add a little bit of cream cheese frosting to the Lemon and it is so yummy!!!!
Strawberry with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting.
I know, it’s a little out there, but it’s a fantastic combination!
jenkinsx3(at)yahoo(dot)com
dark chocolate with buttercream frosting……yum!
alissa27@bex.net
Plain Jane–a rich chocolate with white buttercream, mmm!!!
kdorsch@alumni.iu.edu
vanilla cake with lavender flowers in the batter, with a tangy lemon buttercream!
chellybelle77 @ Yahoo.com
coconut w/coconut cream cheese frosting – DELISH! I could really use one of these – fingers crossed that I win! :)
stephmccracken@gmail.com
I love vanilla with chocolate frosting. I know that boring, but I really like. Although, while I was on my honeymoon I had a huge chocolate one with peanut butter in the center and chocolate frosting…. fantastic and by far my favorite..now if i could just recreate it.
I love the cupcakes with those colored chips that used to be cool when you were little…
lemon cupcake with buttercream frosting. By the way I just found you website and am so excited about all the great ideas… I have a graduation and 1st birthday coming up and plan on have lots of yummy mini cupcakes and more … Thanks
German Chocolate with Coconut caramel frosting….
For me it is a toss up between spice cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate with coconut frosting. Although, either way I like to healthify it first.
bsblbabe@yahoo.com
I love love love red velvet with cream cheese frosting! They do it for me every time.
Tamara86 at earthlink dot net
Those turned out cute!
I’d have to say my favorite is yellow cake with chocolate frosting or white whipped frosting…so yummy!!
candi2001@hotmail.com
Julie
Love mocha frosting/ real vanilla bean/ chocolate cake
jhoneyk@hotmail.com
humm, can’t think of just one fav, probably red velvet with anything cream cheese! If I win the tower, does it come with cupcakes already made and shipped? : ) yum!!!!
worleyzoo@cablelynx.com
Chocolate with Chocolate frosting. Yum!
I would have to say yellow with cream cheese frosting…pretty simple, buy yummy! Sarah at polarsmile@hotmail.com
If I’m in a fruity mood, I Like strawberry with chocolate frosting. Otherwise, spice with cream cheese frosting.
Oh chocolate chocolate with more chocolate…hmmm i might have a problem! Hehe
amanda.tullis@hotmail.com
I like chocolate with chocolate frosting! lori.skram@comcast.net
I’m boring, but yellow butter cake with creamy chocolate frosting is the best combo ever!
ohhh I like too many to pick a fave- fave!! But I think red velvet with cream cheese frosting and crushed pecans sprinkled on top is at the top of my list. yummmmmmy!
Lemon cake filled with lemon curd and a meringue topping… yummy!!
spocandme@gmail.com
Vanilla cake with bits of fresh strawberries baked in, then a fresh strawberry creme frosting (4 egg whites whisked with 1/2 cup sugar in a double boiler, then brought to stiff peaks with an electric mixer. Fold in three sticks of room temp butter that has been whipped for three minutes. Last, CAREFULLY mix in 1/2 cup of fresh strawberries that you have put through a blender. Easy!)
I usually top mine with strawberries I’ve cut in half and drizzled with white and dark chocolate.
Well I like the classic’s personally,so I’d have to say brownie cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!! :) I wish I’d seen these cupcakes last week for when 2 of my nephews had their first communion,their adorable!
jmfreed87@gmail.com
I like cup cakes. seriously if it’s small and pretty…i like it!!
I like to keep it simple…chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting :o)
sarahandnicola@gmail.com
I love my Mom’s zucchini cupcakes with Penoche frosting.
I just joined your blog yesterday after a recommendation from another cake decorator! I am sooo excited! I love the way that you write, and your cakes are beautiful to boot!
My all time favorite cupcake would be red velvet with cream cheese in side and on top!
Yum!
Chocolate cupcake with peanut butter icing! Its incredible!!
I like chocolate with chocolate chips inside and topped with cream cheese frosting.
red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting
kenleana@pacbell.net
Please Please Please pick me, pick me, Mr. Random Generator!!! My favorites BY FAR… are red velvet with cream cheese icing!!
I’m just a plain dark choclate and vanilla buttercream kind of cupcake lover…..
crainqueen@aol.com
This time of year, I love all things citrus, lemon especially.
Bakerella, I just want to say, YOU ROCK!
I love Chocolate cupcakes with Chocolate icing. That has been my very favorite since I was a little girl.
I like neopolitan cupcakes, chocolate and vanilla base with strawberry icing!
Lemon with lemon cream filling and lemon buttercream icing!
Hi Bakerella,
the chocolate sprinkles are from Holland, we call them ‘hagelslag’ and eat lots of it :)
Anyway, I love your blog
x Lotte (I’m from Holland)
Loved your cupcake tower…beautiful.
I love so many flavors, but, chocolate cupcakes with raspberry filling and raspberry buttercream, and key lime cupcake with lime curd filling anf lime buttercream are two of my faves
It’s a tie:
Chocolate with cream cheese frosting or banana cake with cream cheese frosting.
annsteele2004@yahoo.com
Lemon cupcakes with a dark chocolate glaze on top. Yummmmmmmm.
http://icecreamdiary.blogspot.com/
chocolate with chocolate ganache for me. Yum.
kl.irish5@gmail.com
Your cupcakes turned out so cute! Love the graduated cutter that you used!! My fav cuppie flavor is vanilla w/strawberry buttercream!! YUMMO!!! :D
Red velvet and cream cheese frosting….yum!!
I want to winnnnn!!!
my favorite is chocolate…
THANKS ;)
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream. Or Lemon – I love lemon in springtime.
This is amazingly gorgeous!
Let’s see, that’s hard, because I like ALL cupcakes, but I guess I’m boring because I prefer plain old vanilla cake with vanilla frosting.
carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting!!! YUM :)
You are an amazing artist… once i get out of an apartment and out of college I’m going to invest in the fun things you can do with baking!!!!
My best flavor is Cookies and Cream…YUM!!!
rebeccagonzalezg@hotmail.com
Oh!! I love them! They are soo cute!! I don’t think people realize how much effort goes into making special cupcakes for a special occasion…
I love funfetti cupcakes!! With vanilla buttercream frosting!!
Delaceynkyle@sbcglobal.net
Chocolate cupcakes with Italian meringue buttercream flavored with coffee. Its like a mocha..YUM.
J8de2@aol.com
Strawberry with Cream Cheese Frosting! YUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
Today my favorite is a buttery yellow cupcke with a nice thick layer of chocolate ganache – – -don’t forget the sprinkles!
i love lemon poppy-seed cake with blueberry cream-cheese frosting…AMAZING! perfect for spring.
-Kari
email is :kkowalc3@gmail.com
Chocolate with rainbow icing
michelle_048@hotmail.com
My favourite has got to be anything that is citrus as it is so refreshing; lemon, limes, orange.
If I had to pick just one it would be red velvet with cream cheese frosting…thanks!
I love the cupcakes you made. My favorite would be chocolate and more chocolate.
Anything chocolate. You are so incredible and that tower would be great for my grand-daughters 3rd birthday in 3 weeks. Thanks for sharing.
robin.scott@risd.org
Dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting! YUM
hollystrunk@gmail.com
Red Velvet cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting is my all time favorite. Although I do love chocolate frosting as well! Thanks for such a great giveaway. I could put the tower to good use for my daughters upcoming 2nd bday!
Email: jenandgreg121104@yahoo.com
Love your blog!!!!!
My favorite is a my Dark chocolate cup cake with peanut butter cream filling and ganache icing. I love filling cup cakes. So little effort for such BIG reward.
jeantags@gmail.com
Dark chocolate with raspberry frosting.
LOVE your site. Too much fun.
I love vanilla cake with honey lavendar frosting. But I am a sucker for anything with sprinkes.
Ps where does one find hat boxes?
I love love love carrotcake (no raisins!) cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Yum!
judithandmarc@comcast.net
I so needed this a few weeks ago for a friend’s daughter’s birthday. BUT I know there will be many opportunities to use it again in the future.
Favorite cupcake flavor combo? Hmm… something with chocolate. Maybe a chocolatey-peanut buttery frosting on a chocolate cake. Yes, that’s it.
You inspire me SOO much! We make cupcakes each year for the kids BDs. Those are chocolate and yellow cake. But my FAVORITE cupcake type is Red Velvet (and no I’ve never tried to make those). Thanks so much for all the ideas you share and for making it look easy enough for the normal person to do!
Chocolate with Peanut Butter Buttercream and my favorite CupCake Tower is from http://www.CupCakeTree.com They are amazing and they even have SQUARE ones now!!! A couple of different sizes to choose from. Awesome!!!
Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, and lots of the frosting!
My fav cup cakes are fairy cakes. Vanilla cake with the center cut out, raspberry jam filling with a dollop of whipped cream on top. Then the cut out center circle gets cut in half (so 2 semi circles) and placed on their edges on the whipped cream to make fairy wings. The whole thing gets dusted in icing sugar – delish! And they don’t last long :-)
Love your blog, Bakerella. You are such an inspiration!
rgambs (at) gmail (dot) com
I’ve just made a delicious lemon layer cake with a perfect lemon-y frosting. Think it would be excellent as a cupcake! tsfoubert@aol.com
Chocolate fudge with peanut butter filling and buttery vanilla ice cream!
Absolute fav is Lemon or lime cupcake with cream cheese frosting…Will have to try that huge swirly top..that looks so fun..sales@mageyes.com
aka Mimi43grlz+
I love vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting…kind of boring. lol
jeffreynmichelle at kc dot rr dot com
vanilla with coconut frosting
karenlea50@hotmail.com
My favorite would have to be chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting! Soooooooo good!!!
Of course, I’ve never met a cupcake that I didn’t like! ;o)
I love Yellow layers and chocolate icing with sprinkles
adebrabant@knology.net
so cute!! my fav is vanilla with a cream cheese frosting!! YUM!
lauren.effron@yahoo.com
I’m a red velvet with really coconutty cream cheese kind of girl but gosh are those cupcakes of yours ever making me hungry :)
Chocolate graham cracker cupcakes with toasted marshmallow frosting! YUM!
I just love reading your blog. My favorite flavor is banana split. Made with Banana flavored cake, Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting, drizzle of chocolate with a cherry on top. Yummm-o!!!!
Gorgeous Cupcakes!
My favorite cupcakes are rainbow the kind handmade and delivered by my sweet little sister- she usually makes me strawberry with cream cheese frosting! :)
I have a small cupcake tower and have been dying to get a large one! Yippee! You did a great job on the cupcakes, BTW.
My favorite flavor combination is a spiced chocolate w/ vanilla bean buttercream. The cupcake is a little spicy and the vanilla bean icing cools it off. Perfect! In fact, I just made a batch last night for an event today and I’ll have to keep one out for myself.:)
Anything with Cream Cheese Icing!
Those cupcakes are too cute! And I love the cross detail :)
My favorite cupcake is chocolate on chocolate with extra chocolate!
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Vanilla with Cream Cheese Frosting!
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Those are lovely! I think my favourite would have to be vanilla bean cupcakes with French Vanilla filling and Vanilla buttercream. Best part is, they are in the oven right now!!!
Chocolate Kahlua Cake with orange butter cream! Orange and chocolate is my favorite combo. I’m not very unique, I’m afraid! :-P
And I have to add…HAGELSLAG!!!! I didn’t know them until my dutch husband introduced them to me. I’m now addicted and we have to buy them from dutch import stores. De Ruijter is the best brand, imho. And if you like those, try the flakes! They’re known as vlokken. Puur is dark chocolate and it’s better than the melk
i think im really plain since i like vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting :P
i hope i get picked!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your site! I SO appreciate all the time you put into all that you do.
My favorite cupcakes are Butter Recipe Golden with Cream Cheese Frosting AND Chocolate with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting!
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i’m a simple gal, red velvet cake with extra cream-cheesy cream cheese frosting :D yum-o.
and the stand would be perfect, i love baking cupcakes but setting them up on plates just isn’t visually appealing. lol.
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White cupcake with buttercream frosting. Wedding cakes are my favorite!
Strawberry cake with lemon cream cheese frosting!
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Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!!!
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Chocolate with chocolate frosting. (It’s hard to go wrong.)
chocolate and mint! simple and oh so delightful. :))
red velvet w/ cream cheese frosting is still my fav
I love that cupcake tower!!! If I’m not chosen I think I will have to go out and buy one!!! My favorite is any kind of chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting and some sort of fun chocolate decoration on top!
I love Cherry with cherry filling, and cream cheese icing. But truthfully I’ve never met a cupcake I did not like! AND that is why weight watchers loves me!
Chocolate on chocolate, dude!
I know, I’m boring.