cangoss
04-30-2002, 01:10 PM
Has anyone made a cupcake flower?
A co-worker and I are currently obsessed with these and so far she's made it twice and I've done it once (with the famous lemonade cake recipe for Easter) and I'm about to try again. We have yet to achieve perfection though, so I'm wondering if any of you have made one of these.
You might be wondering... what's a cupcake flower? It's a sort of cupcake arrangement. You take plastic cups, and paper clip them together in concentric circles. So you have one cup in the center, put six cups around that, and keep going outwards until you have the desired size. Because of the slant in the sides of the cup, it forms a domed shape. You then drop one plain frosted cupcake into each cup. Theoretically it sticks up high enough so that you won't notice the cups, but we've also had the opposite problem where the cups were too small and it was hard to shove them in there and they risked popping out (I lost a cupcake on the porch on my way to Easter dinner...) After they're in their cups, you can decorate them with icing and create a flower (we've also thought that you could make a soccer ball, or some other round shape).
So, my question is, has anyone made one of these before? What is the perfect-sized cup? Is there any brand that works better? Any great decorating ideas?
TIA for any insight you might have.
A co-worker and I are currently obsessed with these and so far she's made it twice and I've done it once (with the famous lemonade cake recipe for Easter) and I'm about to try again. We have yet to achieve perfection though, so I'm wondering if any of you have made one of these.
You might be wondering... what's a cupcake flower? It's a sort of cupcake arrangement. You take plastic cups, and paper clip them together in concentric circles. So you have one cup in the center, put six cups around that, and keep going outwards until you have the desired size. Because of the slant in the sides of the cup, it forms a domed shape. You then drop one plain frosted cupcake into each cup. Theoretically it sticks up high enough so that you won't notice the cups, but we've also had the opposite problem where the cups were too small and it was hard to shove them in there and they risked popping out (I lost a cupcake on the porch on my way to Easter dinner...) After they're in their cups, you can decorate them with icing and create a flower (we've also thought that you could make a soccer ball, or some other round shape).
So, my question is, has anyone made one of these before? What is the perfect-sized cup? Is there any brand that works better? Any great decorating ideas?
TIA for any insight you might have.