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
Your decorating amazes me every time!!
My favorite: Strawberry with Cream Cheese icing! DELISH!
What an amazing job you did!
I love the classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I want to try Martha Stewart’s tiramisu cupcakes, though. That could easily be my new fav.
I think you’re awesome – you’ve inspired me to get back into baking. I love all kinds of cupcakes but chocolate is my fav.
anything with anything…. but seriously, butter poundcake with chocolate buttercream- Yum! Thanks for all your amazing ideas!!!!
jennifertalbert@bellsouth.net
theperrytrio.blogspot.com
Beautiful cupcakes!! My favorite would have to be chocolate w/ chocolate frosting…yum!
Lemon Raspberry too yum!
cupcakeprincess09@hotmail.com
Vanilla Pound Cake with Euro Buttercream :-)
Chocolate with peanut butter!
I like plain and simple yellow cake and buttercream icing. your cupcakes are great looking…wish mine looked so good.
sandichika@yahoo.com
Hmmm, so many choices! I would normally have said a really moist chocolate with cream cheese icing. BUT, I just made a new recipe of the most delicious strawberry cupcakes with a strawberry creamcheese icing that was over the top delicious. Yum!
I have two…carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate with amaretto buttercream:)
Chocolate on chocolate would be my favorite. Buttercream rather than ganache. I wish I had one right now.
I don’t think you need any kind of validation from me, but those are beautiful cupcakes. And your coordination would not have been lost on me. Plus I love brown and pink together.
jennifer(dot)pope(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite is yellow cake with chocolate frosting (old fashioned I guess) Oh, and we have to have the multi color sprinkles on them! For me and my sis, it is a must! I really enjoy your blog, inspires me!
dizzyholly13@yahoo.com
I’m a pretty traditional person when it comes to cupcakes. I love a good chocolate cake with plain buttercream icing. That to me is the BEST there is.
You never cease to amaze me with your ability to make something so simple as a cupcake look so amazingly beautiful!
I am simple…I love chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing….especially if I am not the one making them. I love your blog.
Chocolate with whip cream!
herclover@gmail.com
I’m definitely a yellow cake/chocolate frosting gal all the way…it’s not boring, it’s TRADITIONAL. ;)
walkermk @ gmail.com
oooh! Lemon with lemon buttercream, or chocolate with chocolate cream cheese frosting that I’m going to try today!
Love you bakerella!
Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!
Chocolate and cherry. Thanks for the chance.
That would be Chocolate and Chocolate. Love Chocolate!!
gml22@hotmail.com
Key Lime with Lime/ Cream Cheese frosting. It is yummers.
Wow – all these cupcake combinations is making me feel like I haven’t LIVED! I think I’ll have a keylime cupcake with cream cheese frosting!!!
My favorite Cupcake combo is plain yellow butter cake with a chocolate ganache on top!
erinhudd84 at gmail dot com
I love vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream. cblinton at swbell dot net
Oh, I don’t know! Yellow cake with chocolate frosting, maybe?
Oooooohhhhh! My daughter LOVES cupcakes and since she’s only 2 – we have many cupcakes ahead of us, that tower would be fabulous!
My favorite flavor? Chocolate with Buttercream Icing! An olide but goodie!
Thanks for a great giveaway!
Lemon cupcake… lemon glaze. YUM!!
i love lemon/manarine cupcakes with a simple strawberry buttercream its DELISH!!!
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Chocolate cupcake with mint chocolate frosting! Yummy!!!!
Dark chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting!
khkennedy@gmail.com
Lemon or Lime with Coconut Meringue! yummy!!
Lemon with any kind of frosting! Usually cream cheese.
akhsirt at gmail
I am a chocolate on chocolate girl!
Thanks for this post, I might be making a lot of cupcakes in the near future for a wedding
This is hard I have two, chocolate with milk chocolate icing and second those yellow cupcakes with yellow icing, cute white swirl that Hostess makes. Good thing I’m many states away from Hostess stores. I think I may have to buy one of these stands, I would much rather make cupcakes for my girls birthdays than cakes.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!
Carrot Cake with Pineapple-Cream Cheese Frosting! YUM!
I absolutely LOVE chocolate cupcakes with white buttercream icing. YUMMY! There are lots of others that I love, but that is my favorite.
What a sweet friend you are and what a beautiful presentation you created!!
Mmmm cupcakes. You make me want to go make some right now, even though I just finished making bread and have tons of laundry to do! I would say my favorite cupcake combo is chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting. It’s a winning combination! tclydec(at)gmail(dot)com
Chocolate on chocolate, all the way.
rionic dot blog at gmail dot com
Any chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting is my favorite.
lyn1969@hotmail.com
I love yellow cake with chocolate frosting or carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. But choosing a favorite cupcake is like choosing a favorite kid, it can’t be done, really.
just good old chocolate with cream filling. Staciele(at)netins(dot)net
adorable post! i just finished a cupcake party for my little girl who turned four over the weekend. too bad i didn’t have this tower!
i did, however, make your cupcake bites. i don’t know who enjoyed them the most, my child making them or our friends eating them!! thanks for the idea!
my fav – red velvet with cream cheese icing.
so enjoy your blog. keep it up!
I’m fond of chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting… but now I’m going to have to try the CHOCOLATE cream cheese frosting! MMMMmmmmm…
Chocolate cupcake with double chocolate icing with chocolate chips.
Debra
lighthousevabeach at yahoo. com
oh Bakerella! I so need this cupcake tower. I am making 60 cupcakes for a friends wedding next month and have been trying to figure out how they heck to display them all. Your dilemma and post could not have come at a better time. My friend has asked me to make my favorite cupcake combo – Chocolate Stout cupcakes dipped in ganache and topped with Bailey’s Irish Cream butter cream! They are to die for!
Vanilla with vanilla icing.
BEAUTIFUL cupcakes and what a wonderful idea to use hat boxes with the matching pattern. Go you!
A tiered cupcake holder would be awesome for displaying the baseball cupcakes I’m going to make for my sons 1st birthday party next month!
cathielojkovic@yahoo.com
coconut cake w/ coconut frosting
Chocolate with Chocolate!!
chocolate, chocolate, chocolate…
Chocolate Fudge with a blob of cream cheese surprise at the bottom and butter cream frosting on top!
abigail1972@hotmail.com
Chocolate cake with coffee buttercream, then roll the sides in chopped toasted almonds. Yum!
I’m very traditional, I like yellow cake with chocolate frosting. But I also like strawberry frosting.
madeleine.lux@gmail.com
I would have to say my favorite cupcake combo is vanilla with lemon cream frosting! Super Yum! Your hat boxes/ cupcake holders came out great!
chocolate cupcake with german chocolate frosting (coconut, pecan, caramel) geez, mouth watering just typing that..
I’m pregnant, so right now, it’s chocolate with chocolate everything on top. :-)
rebeccakatzer at gmail dot com
I love plain old vanilla with vanilla frosting…and lots of sprinkles, of course :)
friesentl@jbu.edu
I love chocolate cupcakes flavored with either Amaretto or Kahlua.
FlourChild2006[at]gmail[dot]com
Woah- love your ideas for displaying a plethora of cupcakes! They all turned out gorgeous. Yum. Love your hat box displays- the paper you used is beautiful! Where did you get it??? My favorite cupcake combo is chocolate and chocolate buttercream. Not too fancy but I’m a chocoholic. ;-) Thanks for the chance to win!
I love your website! Makes me want to bake! Your cupcakes look wonderful! My fav. flavor is butter recipe yellow with choc icing. hsturner91@embarqmail.com
chocolate with cinnamon (a cupcake for adults!)- sounds weird, but is DELICIOUS. with the vanilla almond buttercream frosting. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cinnamon-Scented-Devils-Food-Cupcakes-109594
White cake with chocolate frosting. It’s plain, but I love it!
janener@cableone.net
My favorite cake or cupcake flavor combo is red velvet with cream cheese icing! Yumm! Makes me want to whip some up!
k_allen319 at hotmail dot com
I once had lemon cupcakes with lemon/raspberry icing. Yummers!
I really like banana cupcake with banana frosting.
I need this! I lost a smallpart of my cupcake tower and now I can’t use it! OH, and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. ANYTHING chocolate! rosalinamia_at_hotmail_dot_com
I’m boring… yellow BUTTER cake with milk chocolate frosting!
Ilike to try different cupcakes but if I had to have only one, it would be a chocolate cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting.
oh.. thats a hard one! Its a toss up between tomato soup cupcakes with lemon buttercream and fresh banana cupcakes with a nutmeg spiked whipped cream.
Cupcakes are so much fun. W e used them at our wedding instead of wedding cake.
My favorite flavor would be red velvet with cream cheese icing! Yum!
Choose just one? Seriously?! Okay, dark chocolate with chocolate buttercream. :)
My favorite is the classic yellow with chocolate frosting!
And I’m impressed that the crosses match the invitation! :)
Shannon
kscpn5@gmail.com
I love just about any cupcake! But I guess I would say chocolate with cream cheese……or maybe just plain vanilla with a really good vanilla buttercream, mmmmm. Too hard to choose!
~Stephanie
buttercreamdreams@ymail.com
Red velvet with cream cheese frosting. YUM!
angelaraew.wordpress.com
chocolate with espresso chip frosting… yum!! I would love to win this tower — thanks!
caitlinhyla at gmail dot com
Mmmm… chocolate is always a winner but I also love a good moist yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Now I want some cake!
Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Yummy – yummy! I LOVE your blog.
cidaliad (at) gmail (dot) com
Chocolate stout cupcakes!!! Beer and chocolate, my two favorite things!
red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
I adore peanutbutter cake with cream cheese frosting!!
divinesweetshoppe@hotmail.com
carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
I love yellow cake with chocolate icing. Boring, but yummy.
I’m boring: chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream.
Chai Tea cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting!
I am truly amazed by your work. I love reading your blog each week. I absolutly love chocolate cream cheese cupcakes with lemon frosting. they remind me of a lemon truffle. I hope you pick me because I know this would be a much better anniversary gift than my husband will give me tomorrow. In fact I am pretty sure he hasn’t remembered what day it is. :)
I live in holland.
And the chocolate sprinkles you use are problably form belgium or holland indeed. We use them here just to put on our bread and eat it, it isn’t really for decoration use… And there really all that big :) Loved how your cupcakes looked!
Carrot cake and cream cheese frosting…I love your idea and plan to use it for my dtrs graduation – cupcakes are so much easier for parties……Jo
I’m pretty easy to please — chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting!
grace_carlson@hotmail.com
Oh, gosh! How could I ever choose?! Chocolate with any kind of frosting, I also love coconut and lemon and any kind of tropical, ohhh and what about Saucy’s (bloggedyblogblog) starbuck’s carmel hot chocolate?
yum….
Angela
Chocolate with caramel filling and chocolate frosting yum yum!
jennifer-meloche@hotmail.com
My favorite is Dark chocolate cupcakes with cholocate chips inside-underneath Vanilla Buttercream Icing…yum! Thanks for all your sharing, Bakerella!
I love playing around with different combinations, but my favorite will always be a yellow cake cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting…and rainbow sprinkles, of course. (Bonus if the frosting is tinted pink!)
I’m sorta a classic kind of girl. I like a dense chocolate cake with fluffy vanilla buttercream. YUM!!! I think I may just have to bake some tonight! :)
miss_yvette66 at hotmail dot com
carrot cupcakes, with your basic cream cheese frosting! love your blog by the way!!
kristinannbeck.blogspot.com
That cupcake tower is so cute!! I love chocolate cupcakes and also lemon ones with lemon frosting. Yum! Thanks for the giveaway.
andreamelissa@gmail.com
I love the cupcakes that you did, I’m so going to try these recipes…especially the chocolate ones I’m in persuit of a good chocolate cake!
As for my favorite cupcake combo i’d say it is vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream! Oh and then there’s lemon w/ lemon creamcheese frosting…who am i kidding there are so many good combos. I guess these would be my favorite since they first came to mind!
https://www.sweets-n-cookies.blogspot.com
I love dark chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream. Simple and classic – it’s been my favorite my whole life.
Raspberry and green tea. yummy!
I love lemon! A few weeks ago I made my great grandmother’s recipe for “gold cake” and added lemon zest and fresh lemon juice and then whipped a little lemon curd into the frosting… holy cow they were good!
Your cupcakes are beautiful! Love your creativity!
Spice cake with cream cheese frosting is my favorite. Chocolate on chocolate always works too!
White cake with whip cream frosting… and a strawberry on top!
p.s. where did you get those two sided cutters?
p.p.s. do you have a good whip cream frosting recipe?
I love chocolate with buttercream icing :)
Those looks awesome!
I am a chocoholic, but it is nice to balance a chocolate cupcake with a vanilla buttercream frosting. Or a vanilla cupcake with chocolate smothered on top! Really, if it has chocolate ANYTHING, I am game!
http://captainmicah.blogspot.com
I love coconut cupcakes with meringue topping and coconut shavings…I used Martha’s recipe and it’s yummy!
Chocolate!!!!
Red velvet with dark chocolate frosting. Yum-O!
Carrot cake with a litle cream cheese frosing!
PS; I really need this tower for my daighter’s graduation party next month. She decided on cupcakes instead of a big messy cake.
bluford11 at yahoo dot com
Love your blog and great ideas!!
If I had to choose a favorite it would be chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Oh now I’m going to have to bake some. See what you’ve done!!! :o)
I love pineapple with chocolate frosting.
chocolate cupcake and vanilla buttercream….mmmmm! raquelk_87@hotmail.com
I once had a vanilla cupcake with Passion fruit buttercream…YUM, the sweet and the tart played off eachother nicely.
email: grommetgrin3@hotmail.com
Thanks for all your great ideas and giveaways!
Danielle
totally chocolate w/ chocolate! Mmmm!
jennyblattman (at) hotmail (dot) com
I don’t think I could come up with just one flavor combination, I love all cupcakes!
Love those cupcakes!
my fave is chocolate/chocolate!! Ü
I like yellow cake with chocolate icing.
Lemon with Cream Cheese icing. YUM! So fresh and creamy tasting. Now I want want one!
Definitely chocolate cupcake with chocolate chips and chocolate fudge frosting!
– cmfieldnotes@yahoo.com
I love ANY kind of cupcakes – I seriously have a major cupcake addiction! But my most favorite flavor is probably the chocolate on chocolate combo. YUM!
funredhead@gmail.com
I LOVE red velvet cupcakes w/ Cream Cheese frosting! TOTAL FAV of the whole family!
I love either plain chocolate or plain vanilla cake with any flavor BUTTER CREAM frosting. :)
Your cupcakes are so cute! I bet she had a great party.
mnhub-junk at yahoo dot com
coconut cupcakes with cream cheese and coconut frosting. 500 calories each and totally worth it.
chertkow@hotmail.com
I’m getting ready to make strawberry with vanilla buttercream for my granddaughters birthday!
I would strip naked and run down my street to win this!!!!! I have way too many faves to pic just one flavor but a good cupcake only needs to be one thing for me to love it- MOIST!
Awesome giveaway
thanks for doing this great giveaway! my fav combo has to be red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. O YUM! potbelliedpiggie@gmail.com
Meyer Lemon cupcakes with a lemon curd filling and cream cheese frosting! yummy! I love the chocolate sprinkles!
stephanie.erickson0430@gmail.com
I like red velvet w/ cream cheese icing!
oooh. lemon cupcakes with raspberry frosting! yummmmm
rite2moi at yahoo dot com
My favorite flavor is dark chocolate with dark chocolate ganache frosting…I am a chocolate girl all the way!
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream! Mmmm!
Melanie
happydaisy@cheerful.com
Red velvet cake with Chocolate cream frosting and chocolate sprinkles!
I love Lemon with cream cheese…I know, I’m weird!
Dark chocolate with chunks od fresh strawberries baked right in and topped with a cooked icing (flour, milk, sugar, crisco….
I love banana cupcakes with peanut butter cream cheese frosting!
Chocolate & Peanut butter-any combo…my fav! YUM!
Mary@socalledwife.com
Italian cream cake is just the best thing ever, and you can never go wrong with cream cheese frosting.
ekparisi@yahoo.com
Those are beautiful. I’ll need to make some 1st Communion cupcakes next year, so I will be saving these for inspiration. My fave cupcake with chocolate with a large, plain marshmallow smooshed on top right out of the oven. It melts down and is YUMM!
Those chocolate cupcakes piled high with pink buttercream are now topping my favorite list. I LOVE good home-made buttercream – the more the better. Fill the cupcakes with a good bavarian cream and I would be in HEAVEN.
waagedaage at hotmail dot com
Yellow cake with Chocolate frosting. Absolute favorite!!!
I am drooling…and your design is perfect! Chocolate with cream cheese frosting.
Wow!!
My favorite would be strawberry with cream cheese frosting…YUMMY!!
Red Velvet with Cream cheese frosting. OOOOOhhhhh, Yummmmmmmm!
Spice cake with cream cheese frosting! I love the cupcakes and the hat box stands! They turned out beautiful!
These are gorgeous!! I totally would have noticed that the invitation matched ;) Stunning work as always, Bakerella!
I’m pretty boring when it comes to cupcakes I like. You just can’t beat vanilla cupcakes with your delicious vanilla buttercream frosting. Yum! :)
My favorite cupcakes (and probably my husband’s favorite too) are pumpkin cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting, though the bourbon chocolate cupcakes with bourbon buttercream frosting are a close second.
Man, it’s a tossup betwwen Red Velvet with buttercream frosting, or these yummy chocolate ones with a cream cheese/chocolate chip filling and cream cheese frosting that my mom makes. Maybe I better make some to sample and decide…:)
Jack & Coke cupcakes – yes, that is right. Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting mixed with whiskey and coke.
Even my husband, who is not a chocolate lover, likes these. hmmmm…
What a great job you did with that tower. LUCKY girl!
I love chocolate with white cream cheese frosting. Basic, yes, but LOVE it.
I just love looking at your creations! Makes me wanna bake some cupcakes. I haven’t found a favorite yet, but I’m thinking I’d like something fruity – maybe mango with some coconut frosting.
I think my favorite is Bostom Cream cupcakes, yellow cake with vanilla pudding in the center with a chocolate ganauche(sp?) on top. Yum.
My absolute favorite is Lemon cake with chocolate frosting from scratch! Mmmmmm! Tastes like a lemon truffle:)
meeganfast@yahoo.com
I’m very traditional – my fave combo is vanilla buttercake cupcakes with chocolate buttercream icing. Who can resist?!
:) Lacey
I absolutely LOVE cupcakes. It’s so hard to choose a favorite. Anything chocolate is nice…with coconut frosting. Sometimes I like something a little fruity…key lime. And carrot with cream cheese frosting is always lickable.
Having a birthday party next month, so I’ve been looking for a good cupcake tower!
Chocolate with buttercream frosting!
I think my favorite is Bostom Cream cupcakes, yellow cake with vanilla pudding in the center with a chocolate ganauche(sp?) on top. Yum.
carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
gshostetter@hotmail.com
We don’t really have cupcake flavourings in England like you do, but I’m trying to do more with them and I’m getting better at piping buttercream. :) I don’t like chocolate (really! I’ve hated it since I was a little kid), but I’d love to try and make a strawberry and cream cupcake. Or a tiramisu-type one with coffee buttercream…
Chocolate with buttercream!!! YUM!!!
I’ll take any cupcake if it’s filled! I love to squirt a filling into the middle, like a little cupcake doughnut. Jam, pudding, whipped cream, or flavored fillings … so yum!
Also a sucker for key lime with cream cheese frosting. Tangy!
tamigreene@gmail.com
Strawberry cupcake with milk chocolate frosting…mmmm just like mom used to make =)
All of it. I love all cake, which would be about the same as all cupcakes. Bring on the dessert!
I live yellow cupcakes with very little frosting and of course some cute sprinkles! Ive been wanting to buy one of these. Maybe Ill get lucky :D. THanks for another great giveaway!
Lemon w/ coconut cream cheese… mmmmmmmmmm
White chocolate and orange…Yum!
Vanilla with vanilla buttercream frosting!
kaitironside at gmail dot com
I love chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter cream cheese frosting. :)
kam617@gmail.com
i love all cupcakes, but i really like chocolate with banana
Please don’t make me pick a flavor! I truly don’t discriminate when it comes to cupcakes. I love them. :) This tower is so cute… what a fun giveaway! Hope I win!
I remember you did a goat cheese cupcake a while back for a contest. I don’t know if it’d be my favorite, but I’d love to try it!
Other than that I’d say I’m a chocolate girl with a little raspberry thrown in…
Just one? I love chocolate and strawberry, but I have to say coconut and lemon will do it for me everytime!
therwees (at) gmail (dot) com
I love good old chocolate… but not just any chocolate… good, rich, chocolate. With rich, buttery chocolate frosting. YUM.
But really… I’ll eat just about ANY flavor. I like almost anything.
Good old-fashioned funfetti with vanilla buttercream :)
Anything chocolate and filled with cream cheese filling!!!
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream icing!
Thanks for the insperation. I’m making cupcakes for the last day of school. MMMMMMmmm. I’m thinking the chocolate cake with cream cheese icing.
hayes.jennifer@yahoo.com
lemon!! love lemon!
I’m classic. I like yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.
Dark chocolate cupcakes with homemade Cream Cheese frosting.
I haven’t met a cupcake I don’t like, but I think my go-to favorite is probably chocolate on chocolate.
I also wanted to say those cupcakes are darling!!! I’ve tried several of you recipes and love everything I’ve tried. You are VERY talented!
brosia13 at yahoo dot com
I Love chocolate and chocolate! I just love chocolate period!
Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting…Mmmmm!
cgesch@cox.net
any thing with lots and lots of frosting!! But lately I have been feeling the white cake with vanilla buttercream :) yum!
chocolate, of course! i have to say the cupcakes you made for this event are gorgeous! you really are talented!
deeholmes@hotmail.com
I’m simple, vanilla cake with chocolate frosting.
I love just a simple white cake with a tall dollop of 7-minute frosting sprinkled with coconut. Simple and delicious. Reminds me of my youth.
You are right…there’s something about chocolate. So many of us like it, including me! Will be baking some to bring to work for birthday celebration…yum!
So many tasty comments, but I’d have to say I love chocolate cupcakes with white buttercream. So good, like a hostess cupcake without the commercial food aftertaste.
eddress4san (at) gmail (dot) com
The cupcakes are gorgeous! What an awesome giveaway!
candcpixley@verizon.net
chocolate with coffee buttercream. yum!
They’re so cute! I thougt the pink sundae cupcakes are the prettiest!
Why can’t I make something that looks like that?
bo_schubert@live.nl
you are so thoughtful, my dear. you must try coconut cupcakes with mango-cardamom frosting. So good! They’re my favorite!
Hands down, carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I use the Whimsical Bakehouse recipe–to die for!
I like white with buttercream. Or red velvet with buttercream. Yum.
Anything citrus flavored with lightly citrus-flavored buttercream. Mmm. Also, vanilla with milk chocolate icing. Yum.
I love strawberry with cream cheese frosting. To me they’re the best.
sammym956@gmail.com
You are so sweet to keep giving things to us devotees. You gotta love a white cake (think wedding cake) with butter cream frosting.
Thanks for the chance. Jackie
Lemon/raspberry…yummm!!
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Strawberry with cream cheese frosting! Yumm!!
I would love that for my kids’ class room parties!
My favorite is my mom’s Wacky Chocolate cake made into cupcakes with Mint frosting….I’ve had it every birthday for years!