Cinderella Dress Cupcake Cake Repin Love

I use Pinterest as my picture gallery on this blog.  Pinterest is easy, free and has it has many, many users.  One of the neat things about it is that other users can "repin" one of my pictures to their Pinterest boards.  When I view my own boards, I can see stats like how many times a picture has been repinned.

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Up until recently, this picture of a sheet cake I did with lattice work and buttercream roses pretty much held the record for the most repins of all my cakes.

I was very happy with this cake when I made it years ago but it's funny that a simple sheet cake was the most repinned out of all my cakes.

You may notice that I said until recently this sheet cake was the most repinned.

 Just in the past few weeks, another one of my cakes has been getting repinned like crazy.  This Cinderella dress cupcake cake has been repinned so much lately that it has now surpassed the rose sheet cake to take the #1 slot.

Every time one of my pictures is repinned, I get an email from Pinterest.  Over the past few weeks, I have been getting several emails per day letting me know that this cake has been repinned.

I am happy that I made something that other people look to for inspiration.  I enjoyed making this Cinderella dress cupcake cake for Emma's birthday party as well as a cake for her handmade crown.

Cupcakes 21 Ways

Cupcakes 21 Ways

There are countless ways to decorate cupcakes.  Here are 21 of them:

"Ice Cream" swirl (left) and "Rose" swirl (right).  Done with Wilton 1M tip.

Big Puff of icing done with Wilton 2D tip.

Giant Rose done with Wilton 127 tip.

Swirl done with Wilton tip 199 and gumpaste bumble bee.

Hydrangea blossoms done with Wilton tip 2D.

Old-fashioned rose petals done with Wilton tip 104.

Grass done with Wilton tip 233 and tiny gumpaste flowers.

Thin swirl with star tip and simple fondant rose.

Iced in buttercream and rolled in sugar sprinkles.

Spiral piped with any medium round tip and "webbed" with toothpick.

Topped with fondant embossed with vintage lace.

Topped with fondant circle then piped chocolate & 2-tone swirl (middle).

Basketweave piped with medium round tip and star tip flowers.

Tip 1M swirl with fondant heart.

Giant Sunflower done with Wilton small leaf tip.

Topped with fondant owl.

Star fill-in done with Wilton tip 18.

Ballerina done with Ateco frill tip and gumpaste heart.

Petal technique done with medium writing tips and small angled spatula.

Red Velvet Cupcakes X 2

Red Velvet Cupcakes X 2

Was wanting to play around with fondant cupcake toppers and piped chocolate decorations.  I had some red velvet batter on hand, so I made cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  If you want more information about the different types of icings, see my post That's the Icing on the Cake.  The SMBC (Swiss Meringue Buttercream) recipe that I use is one that pastry chef, Gretchen Price shared on her blog Woodland Bakery Blog.

After the cupcakes were baked and the buttercream was ready, I melted some dark cocoa candy melts from Wilton.  I used this to pipe a free-form flower on wax paper.  These will dry pretty quickly but they do need to be completely dry before they are handled.

Half of the cupcakes were going to be topped with fondant cupcake toppers.  Once, the fondant is rolled out, I cut out a round circle with a very old cutter that I have.  This cutter has a scalloped edge all the way around it.  Then, I took a #3 round tip and punched out a small circle at every other scallop.  This was so easy and made for a pretty cupcake decoration.

The other half of the cupcakes got two layers of icing with a chocolate piece inserted into the buttercream.  The icing was colored with two different shades of pink.  The bottom layer was piped with a large round tip while the top layer was piped with a 1M.

P.S.  When you make the chocolate decorations, be sure and make several extra - some of them WILL break while you are trying to get them off the wax paper :(