Cupcake Wedding Cakes – Easy, Affordable, Trendy
Cupcake wedding cakes are a great alternative to the traditional wedding cake for several reasons. Typically, they are less expensive, less labor intensive and you can be as creative as you want. If you like to do-it-yourself, this is way more do-able than a standard wedding cake.
Just look at the creative ways you can make cupcakes not look ordinary. From Martha Stewart's Cutest Cupcake Contest to give you some ideas:
You can easily bake the cupcakes yourself. And what's even better, you can bake them up to two month ahead of time. You simply bake your cupcakes, then wrap them individually and freeze them without the icing or decorations. Then, when its time, defrost and decorate away. Make it a family and family-to-be affair. Invite the soon-to-be inlaws over for a cupcake decorating party. Have everyone follow directions for your exact design desired, or let everyone create their own unique designs.
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Cupcakes aren't just for kids anymore! Martha Stewart has showcased cupcake wedding cakes on her site and the most poshest decorators and bridal magazines have followed suit. A cupcake wedding cake can be just as impressive or even more so than any other type of cake. You can make them to be as elaborate and formal or crazy and fun as you want. You can easily match your wedding theme to your cupcakes. You can decorate them very intricately or easy and simple and add little cupcake toppers or "cuddlers". You can actually get custom wrappers to give your cupcakes an upscale look. This photo to left by Manassas Cakery created muti-tier cupcake levels topped with a mini-cake as a topper. This example has 210 cupcakes in foil liners with non-edible pearls inside the formed flowered icing tops.
There's even special cupcake wedding cake stands. If you wanted to, you could use a regular tier-cake stand to build your cupcake cake, but there are actually special tier stands and towers designed for such. You can get them as small or big as you want. The brand, "Cupcaketree" has sizes that will hold up to 300 cupcakes. Their mini size holds 100 cupcakes, but both sizes have 5 tiers. Easy to assemble and easy to decorate. The large size is $40, the smaller one, $27. What a bargain!
Look how you can turn plain looking cardboard into a beautiful cake display (photos from CupcakeTree.com - follow link above for more info):
Choose your cupcake decoration theme to match the colors and or theme of a wedding. Add all kinds of decorations can be placed around the cupcakes on the cupcake stand such as ribbons, flowers, shells for your beach wedding, chocolates, whatever you choose. You can use any kind of fl
avor for your cupcakes or even vary them so your guests have a variety of flavors to choose from. Any type of icing, buttercream, royal frosting accents, etc. is suitable or you can get fancy and use fondant. To the right is an example from Manassas Cakery with fondant poured over mini-tiers.
Versatile, easy, inexpensive, unusual, even trendy are what cupcake wedding cakes are and can be. So what are you waiting for? Turn on the oven, start brainstorming ideas for your cupcake design and bake and create! Use the cupcake wedding cake pictures here to inspire your own. And don't forget to have fun. Congratulations on your wedding and marriage.
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wow…amazing
but still expensive to bring into Malaysia. Unit coz is very expensive.
Wedding cake decoration is one of the most popular stuff in wedding reception, but also one of the most important thing to consider. Thank you for very nice guide.