Kiri's 21st

   No one can accuse me of not taking enough photos this time! All the effort of learning how to make sugar roses for my own birthday was just the tip of the ice burg. Kiri and her cakes were the real reason I went many a late night in July, but I think the results speak for them selves. And so, I give you the birthday girl!

 

    I was actually afraid that I may have made her cake to girly, but when I got the photo of her with her cake, I thought it was just girly enough. I was told by the birthday girl and her sister (who was the person who initially contacted me) that she likes pink and is a very girly girl. Except for the yellow (I didn't have any whitener for the butter cream so I had to embrace the yellow...) and the peachy tones to some of the roses which gives the top a grandma vibe, I think it turned out really well! Oh! And the cake was Devil's Food Cake with butterscotch schnapps cream filling and vanilla bean butter cream icing.

   The cake was made for a more family orientated crowd of about 15, but she also wanted cupcakes made for a party of 25 for her friends at Cloudland. Boy was I intimidated by the idea that my cuppies were going to as fancy a place as Cloudland! So I knew they needed to be pretty spiffy to not fade into the background. I think I did quite well actually.

 

   I continued the  pink garden theme with a main cuppie that I topped with the most intricate rose I have made to date but gave it black leaves and silver sparkle to give it a little more modern look. I surrounded that with mini cuppies I covered with small plain flowers in varying shades of pink making a hydrangea feel. After that i went a with a less realistic look but totally awesome, fabulous almost tropical space-flower.

 

 

    Do I need to keep going, or do you understand just how much I love these cuppies? They were all the same Devil's Food Cake but with vanilla bean and/or raspberry butter cream frosting. The petals were white chocolate I painstakingly melted, smeared and set in a curl. I'm sure there are easier ways to do it, but I don't know how, so I just made it up as I went along... I love them!

    Still love them...

    There aren't too many pictures, are there? When I was frosting and putting the chocolate petal flowers together I had to keep stopping for dancing fits because I was so proud of how they were turning out, I felt like a cupcake god! They were AWESOME!

P.S.

   Just thought I would share some shots I took of the mayhem created by making this many fancy cuppies...