Wedding Cake Project 2: Orange and Ivory Fondant Cupcakes.

These are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting, covered with orange and ivory fondant at the top.

A friend of mine ordered these cupcakes as a wedding gift (gubahan hantaran) for her groom. I spent almost the whole day yesterday making these, and my back still hasn't recovered from the strain of sitting up straight for long hours while trying my best to decorate the cupcakes as prettily as possible. And.. i don't know why the heck it took me so long to decorate 16 cupcakes only?? Gosh, i work at a speed of a freakin' snail.

To be honest, i'm not satisfied with the design of the cupcakes. I wish i could do better than this. You can tell from the picture that i ran out of ideas for the design and hastily rubbed silver glitters all over the fondant to make them look less dull. Fail.

When i delivered these cupcakes to my friend, i was so darn nervous to show her my work, afraid that she might suddenly turn into a huge bridezilla and start throwing the cupcakes to my face, or eat me alive or something. But thank god that she's so easily pleased! The second i opened the lid of the box, she started jumping up and down, hugging me, complimenting how pretty the cupcakes were and contemplating to keep these cupcakes to herself and scoff them down on her bed when midnight strikes. But she discarded the idea in the end. Seems like her love for the groom is bigger than her love for cupcakes.

Gasp! Rejecting cupcakes over a man??? Is she even human???

Just kidding folks.

But seriously.

XD

So all is well in the end. I'm really happy to see that my customer is happy with my work. But i know that i have to keep on practicing on the design.

By the way, I used Pioneer Woman's Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever recipe for the chocolate cupcakes and All-recipes creamy chocolate frosting for the chocolate buttercream frosting. And oh my, these cupcakes were totally divine!!! =)))

My First Wedding Cake Project!

When i first accepted the order to make wedding cupcakes + one fondant cake for my cousin 6 months ago, some people (and even myself) thought that i was crazy. Because (a) my baking skill's still in need of major improvement and (b) i had no idea how to cover a cake with fondant. I didn't attend any fondant cake courses before. So it's only fair that some people thought that i was abit cuckoo on the head, and feared that the end result would be a total crap sitting on the wedding cake stand instead.

But now i'm so glad that this pink & white wedding cupcake + fondant cake project turned out to be quite a success!

Okay, I've to admit that the cupcakes and the cake weren't 100% perfect. As you can see closely at the pictures, the swirly icings on the cupcakes weren't that pretty, and the fondant cake was quite slanted to the right. This is what you get if you hire an amateur to do your wedding cake =P. But i was relieved that my cousin wasn't such a fussy bride, in other words, a BRIDEZILLA. She was actually very satisfied with it, after i kept asking for her opinion for countless of times. Phew, thank god for that. :D

The best part of the project was the rose! I have to thank YouTube for this. I had no skill whatsoever in making fondant rose before, and i had been searching for tutorials on YouTube and had been practicing for days. And i was so glad that they turned out nice on the fondant cake!

Overall it was such a great experience, even though there were times i felt like giving up. But i am grateful to have my family members and friend to help me out. =)

And i'm still glowing from all the compliments that i'd received from the guests. =)))

Before i end this post, i'll give you more details about the wedding cupcakes + cake:

(a) Cupcake stand: Made of silver cake boards and cake dummies (styrofoam)

(b) No of cupcakes baked: 90

(c) Cupcakes (and Cake) flavour: Strawberry yogurt. (from: Sugar Everything Nice Blog)

(d) Cupcakes icing: Wilton Buttercream (from: Wilton.com)

(e) Cupcakes Icing (and Cake fondant) color: Americolor Electric Pink Gel Food Colour

(f) Cupcakes topper and deco: Hearts made of royal icing. And Wilton Sugar Pearl Sprinkles

(g) Cake fondant: Store-bought - Wilton Ready-To-Use White Rolled fondant 



Hope you have a blissful marriage life, cuzzie!

Anyway i'm not in the picture. :D

I just loveee the deco colours! I should have taken these colours for my wedding last year! Mine was gold and cream.

P/S: My friend has requested for wedding cupcakes for her wedding next year! Should i accept it??