I made the cupcakes and cookies for a cousin's wedding shower, and here they are! I meant to post these a long time ago...but college has been really busy for me so oh well haha! Anyway, the wedding colors were pink and white so that's what I wanted to use for the cupcakes and cookies. I think they turned out nice and everyone at the wedding shower loved them and went crazy over them!
This was the arrangement of all of the cupcakes and cookies I made for the shower!
These are some of the regular-sized cupcakes I made. I made vanilla and strawberry cupcakes both with vanilla buttercream icing, and all of the flower decorations were made out of gum paste! Gum paste is similar to fondant (but I just like gum paste better) and uses the same tools as fondant too. The decorations were really easy to make and honestly only require VERY basic skills with gum paste. They basically only required dying the gum paste, flattening it out, cutting it with little flower cutters, and then placing the flowers on the cupcakes.
TIP for gum past decorations: DO NOT put the decorations on the cupcakes way ahead of time or place them in sealed containers with the cupcakes or they will absorb the moisture and soften up, and the colors might bleed depending on what colors you use. I added the flower decorations to the cupcakes in the hour before the wedding shower but I made them days in advance!
I used plain white cupcake liners for all of the cupcakes, and the for all of the regular-sized cupcakes I added another white cupcake liner after baking the cupcakes and letting them cool. I hate when cupcake liners start out pretty and then turn greasy looking and the same color as the cupcake! Sooo, I wanted to fix that and make my cupcakes look a little more elegant...to do this I flattened out white cupcake liners, folded them each in four spots (fold shown above) for each cupcake to make them tight on the cupcakes and glued the folds, whole punched on each of the four folds, and then threaded pink ribbons through and tied them off! This took a while and definitely wouldn't be a project you could expect to complete in 30 minutes for 100 cupcakes, but they turned out really nice! Also, it would be fairly manageable if you were making just a batch or two of cupcakes!
These are some of the mini cupcakes I made! They turned out so cute and I didn't even think they needed extra white cupcake liners added to hide the cake colors. I iced them using a leaf icing tip to create five flower petals on each cupcake, which is actually super easy once you practice it a few times. Then I just added a few candy pearls (white and pink, of course!) and they ended up being so adorable!
These are some of the cookies I made for the wedding shower! I used a sugar cookie recipe that I found online (one that said it was good for using cookie cutters and for decorating) and cut the cookies using a tiered cake, dress, and big heart cookie cutter! I used a royal icing that I made to outline the cookies, allowed the outlines to dry and harden, and then flooded the cookies with a thinned royal icing. You can find LOTS of tips and tutorial videos for doing this online. It's fairly easy to do as long as you get the icing consistency right for the flooding and the outlining! After flooding the cookies with icing I added candy pearls to some of the cookies (before the icing hardened) and then after I gave the icing time to harden I was able to add other icing decorations (using the same royal icing used to outline the cookies)!
I ended up making over 50 cookies haha! And they were so big so we had lots left over.
Well I hope that looking at my pictures and information about the wedding shower cupcakes and cookies sparks some ideas for cupcakes and cookies you can make, or that you at least enjoyed looking at the pictures! haha Happy baking and party planning!
-Rebecca
