Duck Pond Cupcakes
So this last weekend, yesterday in fact, Carl's cousin's wife had a baby shower. This is the second child and we decided to go simple. Just dessert and coffee and punch, gifts and a couple games. So I was the one who got to make the cupcakes. I have always found cupcakes to be, in general, rather boring. I am not a master confectioner, so I don't know how to make beautiful cupcakes. I enjoy putting them all together to make a different type of configuration. This was my idea. We had a boy themed ducky shower. So at first I was just going to do the blue frosting with the duckies on top. Again, I thought that was kind of boring, so instead as you can see I made a duck pond with dirt and grass/moss (the frosting was supposed to be stiff like grass but didn't cooperate). Everyone enjoyed it and I got a lot of compliments. Easy to serve and everyone got to pick chocolate, yellow or white cake cupcake. It was fun, though not as fun as Kaleigh's 6th birthday Pirate cup "cake". Although, now that I look back at that photo, I like the Duck pond better! hehe, but the kids adored the pirate cupcakes too! I also note that Kaleigh's cupcakes were for 20 kids whereas the shower needed around 60! Whew, good thing Kaleigh helped with these!
3 comments:
Very cute. I've only ever helped Mami make a caterpillar cupcake thing. That used coconut to help it look more fuzzy - you used food coloring & roasted the coconut to make it more stiff.
I have also seen cupcake creations where they kind of squish the cupcakes close and frost them all as one thing.
I suppose some would get between the cakes, but if your frosting is stiff enough, it wouldn't go through too bad.
I guess if you do this again you could try the green food-colored coconut for grass?
My favorite cake of all time is still the volcano cake we made for Tim :) Mostly because of the "real" dinosaurs eating the fake ones and all the red gel blood... hee.
I wonder if THAT photo is somewhere in the negatives?
Do you remember what year?
I don't really remember it that well. Real Dinosaurs vs. fake?
real dinos vs fake? now this sounds like something I would like to try!! the idea was really cute and i think i might pass this along to my mother for future birthday use!! my cousin will be 4 soon so this might save us a few dollars and still look awesome!!
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