Cupcake Tower!

So, it took me FOREVER to find a cupcake stand that would work for this project but I finally did, and what do you know? It was the cheapest one I found which was also a plus! My cousin Anna is expecting her first baby girl! So, I volunteered to do a cake for her shower. It was an open house kind of style so I didn't want a cake that people would be afraid to cut into or eat till the end of the party, so we decided on a cupcake tower with a small cake on the top!

She likes more earthy, natural kind of colors, so I went with a kind of "garden" color scheme. Also I wanted to try these adorable gerbera daisies I have seen... they turned out way pretty... but do take a LONG time to make... I'll show you a little bit of the process...


For these, I mix fondant with gum paste, it makes it harder, and you can actually keep them and reuse them if they dry long enough. I used my cutter upside down to get the crispest edges...


You need two cutouts for each flower, but after you cut it out you roll out and vein the petals a little bit...


Then, get the middle of the bottom one a little wet, and put the other one on top and they'll stick together!


Then, I use the smallest flower cutter I have... After you cut these out, I have a tiny pair of little bladed, but SHARP scissors... You cut them in half and then cut each petal in half so they are skinnier... but don't cut the petals all the way through so they stay together....


Get the center of the flower wet again,.. and start pressing and sticking the smaller pieces to the outside edge of the middle of the flower... forming the circle...


Then I made a center for each, where I used my scissors and a toothpick again to make it a little more real-like giving it some texture...


And voila! This is everything all put together... I did three different color flowers... The orange, blue, and pink... and then made a small 6" cake for the top... The cake was white with a strawberry filling and buttercream icing and the cupcakes were white and chocolate with buttercream icing on top of them!


Here is a more upclose of the cake...

It turned out well, and looked pretty on the table... I really like doing this style with the cupcakes it's a lot of fun, and cupcakes are so easy for everybody to grab without being scared to mess up the cake, which seems to be what I get with most of the cakes I make, they are in a way pieces of art but when it comes down to it they are for EATING! :)