Choosing the Right Buttercream for Your Wedding Cup Cakes

Choosing the right buttercream frosting recipe for your wedding cup cakes is crucial.  You want it to taste great.  You want it to look great.  And if you’re going to make your own wedding cake (or wedding cup cakes), you want it to be easy to use. Finding a buttercream recipe that tastes good is [...]

Cupcake Wedding Cakes

Whether your wedding is a formal or informal affair, when you’re considering the evening’s desserts be sure to consider serving wedding cupcakes. (photo courtesy of Southern Accents, Becky Luigart-Stayner) The gorgeous arrangement above features a variety of cupcake wedding cakes and other small desserts.  The wedding cupcakes are placed on tiered cupcake stands (which can [...]

Decorating Cupcakes for Weddings

The video below features instruction on decorating a cupcake with piped flower petals and is PHENOMENAL! Truly! Watch and learn how to fill a pastry bag and pipe gorgeous flowers for the top of your cupcakes for weddings. And don’t be afraid to try this. It truly can be done by a novice. Cake decorating [...]

Amazing DIY Cupcake and Cake Designs

Parenting.com recently did a fabulous article entitled “31 Awesome Birthday Cake Designs“.  The cupcakes in the picture above (with credit to Parenting.com and photographer Kenneth Chen) are quite simple to recreate.  They were made with gumdrops, a frosted Mallomar cookie and M&M Minis.  Instructions for decorating the cupcake as well as the cupcake recipe are [...]

In Search of the Perfect Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Martha Stewart’s “One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes” just did not do it for me.  I know there are lots of folks out there that love that recipe.  Unfortunately, I am not one of them.  So I decided to start trying out some other chocolate cupcake recipes and happened upon a great Cupcake Wedding Cakes post over [...]