The other day, my friend asked if I could make one dozen cupcakes for an event she was hosting. They were going to use them for a cupcake bouquet. I looked at the design and thought, sure! I can do that. Then I got the idea, that I should make a couple myself, for an event I was attending that same evening.
Here's the original design inspiration and I actually read the blog post for the "how to" to make sure I got it right (which I don't normally do). It looked innocent enough (link here):
What I found though was that this project was quite involved...sooooo...even though they turned out quite nicely. I've decided to share my 13 reasons for why you should NEVER make a cupcake bouquet LOL:
- Don't. Just don't do it!
- Making & icing cupcakes from scratch is enough. Period. The cupcakes don't need a display or anything cutesy.
- You'll go to Michael's and spend $30 on supplies you don't want to buy but at this point you're committed to make the silly thing!
- Once I arrived home, I laid out all of the suppliers and think, huh, this thing may be more involved to make than I thought.
- Prep cups, tissue, glue gun and placement.
- Glue everything: the foam to the pot, the cups to the foam and prepare the toothpicks...oh.so.many. toothpicks.
- Think: am I really doing this?
- Start the assembly of the cupcake bouquet.
- Stuff tissue paper.
- Stuff more tissue paper.
- Stuff even more tissue paper.
- As I open the refrigerator door, one mini cupcake falls off and I say: Oh Heck! and just eat it!
- Remember: Sprinkles are God's gift to bakers (they cover any icing errors!)
- Warning: this bouquet is as dangerous as a porcupine due to the excessive amounts of toothpicks. You will get pricked.
- As the project was coming to a close, I thought: huh, I haven't cursed at all during this proecess and it was the perfect excuse to! Right at that time, Cory walked in and said: these are the best damn cupcakes I've ever tasted! and, he said I could quote him on that ;)
- Finally, transporting the silly things was STRESSFUL and I drove granny-speed for several spots of our trip, just hoping it would stay assembled!!!
Fortunately, they both stayed together and we did not have any further cupcake casualties! Everyone thought they were real flower bouquets and not make of cupcakes. The best part was that they were enjoyed for their taste!
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