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
Red Velvet Cupcakes with a Mascarpone and Cream Cheese Frosting
They are fabulous!
BrittneyGrace@gmail.com
French vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting.
chocolate with cream cheese frosting. And some sprinkles for fun.
vanilla and caramel with a little browned butter in the batter!
this is amazing
projectdomestication (at) gmail (dot) com
I haven’t been able to eat a cupcake for years because of a stomach condition, but I love to bake anything chocolate :) Sprinkles make everything look so cute. I have regular chocolate sprinkles, but those ones you have look way better! You did a great job with all of the cupcakes. They look fantastic.
here’s a way to contact me! (Just in case) brittany.button@yahoo.com
Chocolate with Chocolate Ganache… am I boring or what???? I LOVE this tower!!!! My daughter has a b-day 2 days after I am due with this next little one (#4 – june) and her desire is a cupcake party – I would LOVE to win this for that!!!!!
Red velvet and cream cheese! Thanks for the giveaway!
rachaelclj@yahoo.com
I like chocolate with white icing – yum!
jme.mitchell@yahoo.com
Peanut butter and chocolate!!!! All the way!!! Yum! It is the BEST!! :-)
kjgirl39@gmail.com
Carrot cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
knh.tan@gmail.com
just a plain chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting! simple but perfect. :)
scs6p@uvawise.edu
it’s gotta be yellow cake with chocolate frosing. the best of both worlds!
trxymama@yahoo.com
I love yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Cookies & Cream cupcakes & frosting! yummy! Love your blog, by the way. Thanks for always sharing such GREAT ideas. kymcaress@gmail.com
ANYTHING CHOCOLATE!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
jitchan@gmail.com
I was going to say red velvet…but then I saw the Key Lime in the first cupcake, and now? I WANT!
Lemon with vanilla cream cheese frosting.
Jaffa cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!! Yum!
Cherry Chip cake mix and a whipped vanilla frosting.
mjloftus@charter.net
Bailey’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Bailey’s frosting. MMMmmm
I’m a chocolate girl myself. I like chocolate buttermilk cake with chocolate frosting. Cream cheese frosting comes in a close second!
CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE
Miss Lila in Atlanta
lilahuggins@gmail.com
Is there any kind of cupcake that isn’t good? Well I guess a burnt one! I love your site keep up the great work!!
Anything with cream cheese frosting! Thanks for the giveaway!
corynnchan@yahoo.com
My favorite cupcakes are dark chocolate with cream cheese frosting. Sooo rich. I also make these very nice lemon cupcakes with super-sour lemon glaze that no one likes but me and my mom because they are so sour.
red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting…
Pound cake with dark chocolate butter cream. Life doesn’t get any sweeter than that!
I had mini cupcakes that one was a butterscotch with a chocolate cake and the other was called pink lemonade, lemon cake with strawberry frosting. Delicious!
Thanks!
belnapt@gmail.com
The cupcakes were beautiful! I love cupcake towers.
My favorite is simple, chocolate with vanilla frosting.
Strawberry cupcakes with lemon frosting..yummm
rlabelson@hotmail.com
thanks!
I love chocolate cupcakes with butter cream icing, but who am I kidding? I love all cupcakes!
Favorite is devils food with chocolate pudding middles, raspberry jam and whip cream on top…messy and delicious!
I love white cupcakes with Strawberry Meringue Frosting. YUM! They are light and delicious!
I’d have to say chocolate with choclate buttercream icing! Yum!
stampwithkristin@uniserve.com
What a gorgeous job on your cupcakes! I really like lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting. They usually surprise people. I’m making some tonight for a teacher luncheon.
bcosta12@yahoo.com
I have been looking for a cupcake tower for a while, if I don’t win I am glad to know wilton makes them!
My favorite combo is banana cake with chocolate pb frosting!
i definitely love chocolate cupcakes with mocha frosting! on the more “adventurous” side, I like Ube cupcakes (purple yam).
Ooh I LOVVVVEEEEE pretty much any flavor cake with cream cheese frosting…So, I’m definately gone go with strawberry cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Now I’m dying for a cupcake and it’s only 10:30 in the morning! Great Giveaway!!! Thanks!
I’m all about chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting!
Bostom Cream Cupcake I tried recently was super yummy!
I’m a good ol’ fashion girl! I LOVE my cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting!
Give-aways are my friend! So are cupcakes filled with just about anything (it’s like an extra treat of unexpected goodness), but I am a huge fan of custard in anything… you get the point.
Tart Lemon with Rasberry cream cheese frosting!
My favorite is boring, white cake with thick buttercream frosting. Tanya7774@yahoo.com
My fav cupcake is almond (extract) flavored cake and butter cream icing. mmm mmm delicious!
I want!
Devil’s Food with chocolate buttercream…mmmmmmmmmmm
Chocolate with chocolate!
Emmawright12@yahoo.com
almond cupcakes with white ganache frosting. yum.
Chocolate with chocolate frosting.
mmmm i love anything chocolate. :)
Lemon poppyseed and vanilla buttercream!
Strawberry with homemade cream cheese icing!! Yummy~
Tres leche cupcakes with dulce de leche frosting. They are a 2 day project, but totally worth it!
princsjn@yahoo.com
You can’t do any better than a chocolate cupcake with a ton of buttercream frosting on it! Yum!!
I love carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
Oh my god I want I want!
And I love milk chocolate frosting on peanut butter cupcakes.
And you so are Martha Stewart!
My mother-in-laws vanilla cupcakes with passionfruit frosting. My kids & I help devour a batch as soon as they're made . . . in 5 mins flat, they are but a sweet memory!
smith.tiff @ gmail. com
Chocolate with buttercream!
cdanner@madisonreps.com
Red Velvet from Hey Cupcake in Austin!
Yum Yum Yum
kudos to you for replicating the invitation motif! my favorite cupcake flavor is chocolate with raspberry icing and topped with a raspberry!
Is there a bad combination??? I love cupcakes, but I will always put just a regular yellow cake with butter cream at the top of the list!
Thanks!
Jennifer G
jennifer.green@mchsi.com
Rich Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream! Yum-O! Your cupcakes turned out beautiful!
bertokchristy25@yahoo.com
Red velvet with cream cheese icing! http://camicakes.com But I warn you- they are more addictive than crack! :) (I don’t really know that, but I can’t stop eating them!) :)
rbarry@wjxt.com
My fav is chocolate with a caramel chocolate frosting!! Lots of frosting!! :-)
mshute@sympatico.ca
Mmmm Dark Chocolate with a chocolate *mint* frosting…can’t go wrong! YUMMY!
devils food cake with cream cheese frosting!there is a reason they call it devils food…its sinfully delicious!
I like chocolate with peanut butter frosting.
jlakey@standard.net
As sad as this is, I absolutely love box funfetti cake with store-bought rainbow chip icing. They are the best tasting cupcakes!
Red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
I’ve only started getting into cupcakes and obviously chocolate is a huge draw but I tried your Blueberry Basil Cheesecake Cupcakes and they are amazing so those would probably be my favorite at the moment.
tango_1212[at]yahoo[dot]com
(sorry about the formatting of my email above, but sometimes I worry about spam bots)
I love good old chocolate with vanilla frosting, mmm… But am open to try any kind!
my email is anitalynn01@yahoo.com
Those are so cute! I love the plain pink ones, they look tasty! I’m still using box cake mixes, until I master the decorating. My kids love the funfetti cupcakes with buttercream frosting!
I usually stick to chocolate with uh… chocolate but I’ve been doing vanilla and strawberry with strawberry season so big here! Mmmm… I think I’m going to have to get back in the kitchen with the girls today!
http://kiddosonthego.blogspot.com
I love red velvet with cream cheese frosting ..yum
Chocolate and orange … I’d travel a long way to eat that combination. Nectar of the Gods (and orange trees!).
Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter frosting…
yum-a-licious!
Lemon with cream cheese frosting!!
Chocolate with a heart of cream cheese and chocolate chips with a whipped cream icing.
i love chocolate cake with buttercream frosting!! really it makes me swoon!
Hi – thanks for sharing your latest post. I loved your display and the way you carried over the pattern from the invitation was just genius! You’ve inspired me so much!
For my favorite flavor – I’d have to say moist yellow with vanilla buttercream frosting.
I love Chocolate cupcakes with a creme anglaise buttercream!! mmmmmmmm!!!
strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. yum!
I am not a chocolate cake fan, so I stick with plain white or yellow mix. My favorite combo is yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
For transporting cupcakes you HAVE to have a ractangle container with handle. I have a couple of them and they are the best thing to send cupcakes to school or transporting anywhere.
Her is one I found online.
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=4410&f=32510
Mine does not have the insert with the stabilizer, although I wish I had one. I have used crushed up tinfoil to keep them from moving around before.
But the best thing the carrier is used for….placing HOT, fresh Krispy Kreme donuts in it to keep fresh and moist. Every year we pick up Krispy Kreme to take the beach. One year ants got into the cardboard box on the THIRD floor kitchen! We were crushed. Every year after that we have gone into Krispy Kreme with our plastic box and asked them to place our sweet little donuts in our own box!
Beautiful cupcakes by the way!
Chocolate with Peppermint Buttercream! Delicious and refreshing!
Diane Du
yerbud@juno.com
I’m currently on a strawberry (real, not boxed) kick. Yummy!
I love chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing. Yum!
jadiff@gmail.com
My favorite is yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting.
Chocolate with chocolate….then add some chocolate!! Love it!!!
I have a coworker that made a lime cupcake with key-lime filling and meringue topping! They were to DIE for!
green_eyes1114@hotmail.com
Asking my fave cupcake flavor is like asking which is my favorite child. How do you pick? Today I could go for a cafe au lait cupcake because I am ever so tired on a monday!
Thanks!
Sarapete2003 at yahoo
My favorite would have to be Red Velvet cake with buttercream frosting! YUMMM!
Great job on the displays! I’m sure the dedication you showed in displaying the cupcakes equally matched their (presumed) deliciousness! Speaking of delicious… fave combo would have to be chocolate cake with mint frosting (and maybe an Andes mint on top). Yum! (kirkjpk@aol.com)
chocolate with raspberry buttercream :)
My favorite is raspberry creamcheese icing and chocolate cupcakes.
hueryfamily@gmail.com
I love you Martha Stewart Hat box display, very cool!
Strawberry cake with vanilla frosting!!
slaterfam3@aol.com
Those are perfect! You inspire me to try new things.
You are so very talented!
Red velvet and cream cheese frosting. Yum-O!
Oooooh Bakerella pick me!!!! My flavor fave isn’t that ingenious– I love Dark Chocolate with Dark Chocolate icing and Dark Chocolate sprinkles…. (I know I know, not very exciting, but so chocolatey-yummy!)
I wish I had seen these earlier – I just made 4 dozen cupcakes for a Grad party this weekend, and this stand would have been perfect.
My personal favorite is a chocolate cupcake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
I love the key lime cupcakes with lime creamy tart stuff piped into the cupcake and then topped in lime buttercream. I try to only have these once a year. Or once a month :)
Pumkin with cream cheese frosting. YUM!
Oh I could really use this cupcake tower for my daughter’s 1st birthday coming up. Her theme is cupcakes, inspired by you. I will be making cupcake pops, cupcake bites and regular cupcakes. She is my sweet little cupcake. I even found a cupcake pinata online and a cupcake hat. It’s my new obsession. :)
Those are really cute!
My favourite cupcake would be anything with cream cheese icing. Yum!
Carrot with vanilla bean cream cheese icing
bellabearc@gmail.com
I once had a cupcake that was red velvet cake with buttercream frosting. Yum!
Oh wow you are so creative! Great display. Vanilla cake with 7 minute frosting topped with coconut. Yum!
Chocolate cupcake with peanut butter butter-cream icing!!!
I have to stick with a Southern favorite: red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
I love cupcakes with a very light icing and fresh berries on top:)
More chocolate the better, you are so talented, I just adore your work!
My favorite cupcake flavor combo is carrot cake with cream cheese icing and little slivers of chocolate on top…yum!!
-Heather
(unsung.lullaby@live.com)
Red velvet. Or spice cake with cream cheese icing.
I recently had a chocolate-vanilla marbled cupcake with a mocha ganache frosting and it was perfect. Just a bit of chocolate, vanilla, and coffee in every bite.
White Chocolate Almond cake with Nutella mousse filling, YUM!
Chocolate with Chocolate Icing : ) the best!
Banana with cream cheese frosting
my friend makes these yummy cupcakes with yellow cake mix and adds mandarin oranges to the mix. for the frosting, it’s a mixture of cool whip and the jello pistachio packet. they are so good! love the cupcakes you made!
Chocolate with butter cream!!!
any cupcakes with any cream cheese frosting!! And they have to be pink! After all how they look is super important!! ;)
Chocolate with a cream filling and vanilla frosting. YUM!
My favorite is fudge marble and chocolate icing! Yum.
ooooh, this cupcake tower would solve all my problems…but i digress;; favorite cupcakes: chocolate cake with seven minute icing…… Susan@hilldavis.com
I work at a bakery and we make these AMAZING white chocolate cupcakes with a raspberry filling that have a raspberry/buttercream swirled frosting on top. SO amazing!
kmille43(at)utk.edu
My favorite would have to be red velvet with a cream cheese frosting. I may have to try a chocolate combo soon, I’ve yet to find a recipe that seems to be a winner in that department. Thanks!
vanilla cupcakes with fresh strawberry icing!
Although I love to bake, I sheepishly have to admit that I hardly ever make cakes or cupcakes! Weird, I know! But, I work part time at a cake-by-the-slice dessert place and so, have tried all of theirs (of course). Very hard to pick one – my favorite cake there is called Toffeelicious but doesn't come in cupcake form. My favorite cupcake there is strawberry with cream cheese frosting. I think if I had to make one perfect cupcake it would either be toffee (yellow cake with toffee flavored frosting & toffee bits) or lemon (yellow cake lightly flavored with lemon, with lemon buttercream and a dollop of lemon curd)!
coconut cupcakes with cream cheese-coconut frosting.
sarapham@hotmail.com
good old chocolate with chocolate frosting. :)
I”m a purest…I like chocolate cake with cream cheese icing….sprinkles are good, too!!! Lovin’ the tower!!
chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!! very original, yes, i know.
Those are just adorable. I’m such a pink-nut.
As for me, my favorite cupcakes are red velvet with a buttercream frosting. Nothing too fancy.
Confetti cake mix with Vanilla icing. Mmmm!
Yellow cake and chocolate frosting. Red velvet and cream cheese is a close second. My sister will be planning a baby shower and a wedding shower for her 2 step-children. If I win this tower, I’m offering to make cupcakes for both!
Key Lime Cupcake, with Lime Zest Cream Cheese Icing, mmmmmmm.
I like strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese icing.
All this cupcake talk is making me hungry. :)
kellane26 at hotmail dot com
Anything with butterscotch…I LOVE butterscotch.
Toasted Coconut with Lemon Curd Filling and Cream Cheese Frosting!
Love those cupcakes!! Wish I would have thought about cupcakes for my daughters 1st Communion last weekend. I guess I am just a plain jan girl because my favorite are vanilla cupcakes with white frosting.
chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing. hands down. i can’t resist.
red velvet with cream cheese frosting…mmmmm
I love Cherry Chip cake with cheesecake buttercream icing. Delicious. YUMMY!!
lotzoflove@hotmail.com
CHOCOLATE on CHOCOLATE. Hands down the most melt in your mouth yumminess!!!
Gorgeous work Bakerella!!
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting or Italian cream cake with cream cheese frosting or black forest cupcakes (with cherry filling)….so many flavors, so hard to choose
You are so talented. Vanilla with vanilla.
qkimmie35 at hotmail.com
Oh man, I’d have to go with carrot cake with maple/cream cheese frosting. Mmmmm.
I’m a buttercream girl. Anything with buttercream. You blog makes me want to make cupcakes all day long. Simply beautiful.
Maple maple maple.
My favorite cupcake combination is chocolate cake with vanilla icing! It reminds me somewhat of an oreo and I just love those two flavors together.
iamwhole@yahoo.com
Call me simple but my all-time favorite is butter recipe cupcake with creamy milk chocolate frosting! (Although I do venture into more “unique” flavors at times)
Nothing beats a a good ole butter ecipe cake with milk chocolate frosting…..WOW!!!! Now my stomach is growling :-)
Lovinatlanta200@yahoo.com
My favorite cupcake is chocolate with buttercreme icing…..I love a little almond flavor too.
Chocolate cream cheese with chocolate ganache icing.
Mmmmmm…
jen_lancaster [at] yahoo [dot] com
Simple yellow cake and chocolate frosting :)
I love lemon with raspberry or carrot cake with orange cream cheese. Yum!
Please pick me!! :)
I don’t have a recipe but a cupcake that taste like a thin mint Girl Scout cookie..YUMMY!!
Pumpkin cupcakes with lemon or white icing. I loves me some pumpkin spice.
I love vanilla cupcakes and just about any combination icing. I think one of my favorites is the fudge icing. Pretty traditional, but oh so good! I also LOVE Italian wedding cake cupcakes.
Yummmm…Cliche maybe red velvet with cream cheese.
Pretty much anything with cream cheese frosting. I could eat an entire bowl of it.
Chocolate with Vanilla Marshmallow Fluff Icing. That is my favourite, today ;)
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream !! I love your site !!
My wife makes cupcakes and muffins and stuff like that-I like chocolate. benobispo (at) gmail (dot) com
I love cupcakes of any kind & would also love one of these cupcake towers for my little girl's birthday parties!
I’m a red velvet and cream cheese frosting fan!
my favorite is mock hostess ones. You get ganache on top, filling in the middle, and chocolate cake. You can’t go wrong.
Loved your ideas! It’s interesting how many steps it took to plan everything out.
I love good ol’ Red Velvet with Buttercream frosting!
http://thatswhatshe-said.blogspot.com
Just made some banana mini cupcakes with a dab of chocolate frosting. Yum :)
red velvet and cream cheese frosting…mmm
Strawberry cupcakes with chocolate frosting, chocolate covered Strawberries. So, Yummy!
i tried one that was chocolate with peanut butter frosting this weekend. yummy.
I love making cupcakes and this tower would be fab for my daughter’s upcomming 3rd birthday party!
I love a chocolate and mint combo. It’s rich and refreshing!
Definitely Key lime cupcake with white chocolate key lime coconut frosting. MMMM!
spddmn0626 at hotmail dot com
Tart Lemon cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Frosting!
katie@katiecensky.com
pumpkin or banana with cream cheese… mmmm
mindy.strauss @ gmail.com
My favorite is a family recipe, Wesson Oil Cake. Chocolate cake made with Hershey’s chocolate milk mix, and traditional chocolate buttercream frosting. Yummy!
My favorite is the simple vanilla cake with vanilla butter cream frosting. Maybe a dusting of colored sugar on top for fun!
I always go for the most chocolate you can get in a cupcake. i wouldn’t mind finding a caramel swirl in a cupcake though :)
c_lavallee at hotmail.com
Love those “jimmies”.
Favorite cupcake – I’m a purist, vanilla with vanilla.
My favorite would have to be chocolate with butter cream icing.
prodgers@bellsouth.net
These look great! Even if you did have to do a whole lot of guerrilla math, as my husband would say.
I love vanilla with buttercream frosting!
Strawberry with cream cheese frosting!
My favorite cupcakes are a riff off of black forest cake: Dark chocolate with dried cherries and frosted wih whipped vanilla cream. MMMMM!
Oh my goodness, you totally inspire me!!! I love cupcakes!! My favorite is chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting, wait no white cupcake with chocolate frosting, no wait…. I can’t decide I just like cupcakes.
The chocolate sprinkles are actually Dutch, and as shown on the package: we eat them on bread (with some butter underneath so it sticks). Anyway, my favorite flavor combination is a carrot cupcake with some creamcheese frosting.. Yum.
Love,
Isabelle (isa-vdv at hotmail dot com)
Pretty simple. vanilla cake with choc frosting or a mocha frosting. I usually make cupcakes for the kids and they like simle (plain!) flavors!
Those cupcakes were gorgeous!
Thanks!
I love dark chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!
pw0105(at)gmail(dot)com
Anything without coconut
kellytitmus at hotmail dot com
Chocolate with mocha frosting. YUM!
lguenther@verizon.net
I love NOT CHOCOLATE. My fiance loves chocolate almost as much as me, so I like to mix it up a little bit.
White cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Yummy!
http://www.thompsontalesandtidbits.blogspot.com
Buttercream icing with devil’s food. Ooooh, goodness!
You did a fabulous job…as usual!
Vanilla & vanilla buttercream. Plain jane, but YUM!
I’m a fan of the classics, so it’s vanilla with vanilla frosting for me. Plus, they’re the perfect blank canvas for ANYTHING! :)
Lime cupcakes with coconut lime frosting are my absolute favorite! I think I make a batch at least once a month!
Mint Chocolate cupcakes!
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I am real traditional…White Cake w/White Buttercream Icing. Known to most people as a Wedding Cake.
Vanilla with strawberry cream
Oh dear, by the time I read your post, there’ll be thousands of comments posted….
i love chocolate with creamy chocolate buttercream…hmmm…yummy!!!
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Oh wow! Those came out beautifully!!! I don’t know if I can narrow it down to ONE! I’ll go with vanilla and strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting! Yum!
I must be boring – I love chocolate with more chocolate!!! (though my mom used to make a peanut butter frosting that I loved with chocolate too!)…. yummmmmmmm
I skip the cake portion of the cupcake and go straight to the cream cheese frosting. Mmmmmm…. :o)
Basic but good, white cake with rich chocolate icing. Yumm!