Displaying Cupcakes In A Flowerpot?
Decorating By ceshell Updated 12 Oct 2006 , 12:29am by Edibleart
Hi there!
If anyone has seen cindww's adorable flowerpot centerpieces with cupcakes "planted" inside of them (anywhere from 7-12 cupcakes in a pot)...I am trying to figure out how to do the same thing but I want to display the cupcakes in some kind of stick/holder/contraption rather than skewering them into the pots. I want cupcakes at different heights to maximize the amount I can fit into each pot, and I'm worried that if I just skewer the taller cupcakes onto sticks, they'll slide right down into the others!
I have tried bending a heavy gauge wire into a stick shape where it ends in a spiral in which the cupcake sits (see pic) but the 'basket' is a little wobbly, like a spring. I've seen the picket-fence+plastic pot cupcake display kits but the picket fence look doesn't really fit the party theme (classy "jazz" theme) plus I'm using my own galvanized steel flowerpots.
Any other suggestions about how to tackle this? They have to be fairly easy to make as I'll have to make about 60 of them. Help! Thanks!
Thanks, that's a great idea, although I'd still need to figure out how to attach the wire thru the cup so that the cup didn't wobble around. Maybe if I did these on a really long nail (is there such a thing, that long w/out being too thick) and glued a washer on the bottom??
This probably will make no sense and I didn't try it but what if you use the wire and bend "petals" to hold the cupcake. 3 or 4 would probably be enough. Maybe if you start from the center with the wire and go up and back down to the center for a petal and shape to fit cupcake in? Sort of like calyx?? if that makes sense. Just a thought! Cute idea by the way!
. Maybe if I make the petals first then I can loop a wire across the bottom so the cupcake doesn't sit so low. Now THAT prob. makes no sense Well I discovered the solution: a heavier gauge wire did the trick. Really pleased with the results. I made 6 pots (10 cupcakes per pot) so thankfully it was relatively easy to bend 60 cupcake sticks out of 14g wire. Here's the finished product. Thanks to everyone for their input, I did try everyone's suggestions but this one worked out to be the easiest - whew!
Hi there! I used a vitamin bottle because I needed to wrap the wire around something cylindrical and sturdy in order to get the right shape. Never thought of a muffin tin! A great idea although I think it would have been hard to wrestle w/the whole muffin pan. I also baked some 99cent cornbread muffins and used them as dummies AFTER I bent each wire basket, to make sure each spiral was the right size.
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