I was contemplating making them out of fondant or candy melts, just not sure my skills are that good! And if I do candy plaques they'd have to be taken off to cut into it.

You could do them using candy clay. You don't have to take them out to cut the cake. You can cut through them. Or frozen buttercream transfer. Since the pictures don't have too much of details, it is fairly simple to do. You can do it even couple of days ahead of time and put them on the cake when you are ready.

Thanks Champa, I sent her a couple of ideas from here, and she picked a different one know. My next question is, Could I do these in fondant? The original is bct, but I'm not good at that.

Valli - you can also order edible images from grocery stores (here we have HyVee) or from Walmart's bakery. Depending on the bakery in your area, the quality may or may not be perfect.

I thought I posted the cake, darn it!

Hold on, off to go find it!

Okay, it's this cake

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=85233

Gee, it's been a while since I posted here.

I just wanted to let everyone know about my minor discovery. If anyone out there has used the Chocolate Chili Mini Cupcake recipe from the Cupcake Bakeshop blog, here's the change I made to the recipe:

Instead of using ground ancho, I switched to ground pasilla. Both peppers have the same rating on the Scoville scale (heat), but the pasilla has a more robust flavor, and is easier to detect amongst the chocolate.

It makes for a more flavorful cupcake.

Theresa

Guys, I wanted to ask is it possible to swirl a pie topping into cupcake batter? I was thinking scoop the batter in first then maybe a teaspoon or so of pie topping then swirl it in kinda like marble-y.

or would it be okay to scoop batter into the paper liner, spoon a teaspoon of pie filling, another scoop of batter, then pie filling, then scoop of batter?

i'm hoping to make a strawberry shortcake cupcake. help please thanks!

Stuff like that has a tendency to sink to the bottom.

I would try just 1 spoon of filling, on top of the batter, and keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the cupcake.

Theresa

how much should i mix into the batter?

Okay, Remember top of page I said my inlaws were going to kill me with cakes??? I get an 8am wake up call from my sis in laws new sis in law, the one I made the shower & grooms cake for, her sisters good friend is without a baker for some reason, & getting married week from tommorrow.....& now they want me to do a wedding cake! I've never done one before, so I told her I was scared, and I'd rather do a cupcake tower with a small cake on top for them to cut......She thinks they'll be ok with that, I'm just waiting to hear back, and sending them ideas in the meantime. & I have a topsy turvy & a little cake for my niece & nephew this Sunday!!! I go crazy now ;D

Guys....need your thoughts. Going to make smores cupcakes tomorrow. Have some marshmallow fluff that I was going to stir into buttercream for the frosting. But if I do that, can I "toast" it with my torch? Or do I need to use straight fluff?

Um....let me check my martha stewart book........

She uses a marshmallow frosting & uses her torch. It's made out of 1 envelope unflavored gelatin, 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup water & 1 cup sugar

I think that's her recipe for homemade marshmallows. Honestly, I don't have time for that today. My week has been insane!!

Ladies,
The cuppy document is updated through pages 723. Thanks to zoomzone for all the work.

Carrie, you got started on s'mores, so guess what I started wanting, s'mores, so now i'm baking graham cracker cupcakes alon with my 2 cakes I need to get done....

Carrie, I feel so bad for you, my "family" has done the same to me now, my sis in law has a big wedding shower July 5th, and she has told me what cake to do, and now she sent an email yesterday asking where to get onsie cookie cutters so she could make these cookies with this stuff called royal icing..I sent an e-mail back telling her I wouldnt be answering any more questions since they are obviously not behind me making a go of this business, and she could figure out where to buy them online. I so dont even feel like making these next cakes for her anymore, she has 4 cakes between now & July 5th.

Someone on ebay is selling plastic 6count containers for 14.75 a case for 250! I just bought 2 cases, she has 8 left!!

this is the auction number 280306980785

OMG...as soon as I have more than 2 seconds, I will post the recipe for the margarita cupcakes I made today. FABULOUS!

I cannot wait for mine to get here!! I am sooooo excited!!!

AND I got my 2010 yearbook tonight!! They didnt have it yesterday, but when I checked tonight it's finally here!! YAY!!!

How did all the cupcakes turn out Carrie?? The Margarita ones sound amazing!!!

I posted pics of my nieces & nephews bday cakes in my photos.

Stupid cake board! I posted stuff a bit ago and it's not here! Grrr! The cupcakes were a hit! Especially the margarita and smores ones. I'll post recipes here soon!

So, for some reason this thread was deleted from my watched topics. took me 10 mins to find it! anywho, Chass, you can totally handle a wedding cake. I have faith in you!
I FINALLY round that rhubarb cupcake recipe I wrote down a while ago, grandmaG & snow. I'll get around to typing it soon
I'm making my first topsy turvy this week. Any tips?

Can't wait to see the recipe Jana! I had a "watched topic" of Melvira making a topsy turvy cake and others walking her through it. It's not on my watched list any more. I lost a lot of my "watched topics". It's something like "Can I really make this?" or something like that.

Here ya go Jana.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopic-627012-0.html

I tried a rhubarb cupcake recipe the other day. It didn't turn out so hot. Part of the problem I'm sure is the fact that I can't use eggs. My kids are allergic to eggs, so I don't even allow them in my house. So I used Ener-G egg replacer. It's pretty hit or miss when I use it. So I think tonight I'm going to try making the Vanilla cupcakes from Vegan cupcakes take over the world, and just adding rhubarb to those.

This is the recipe I tried, maybe it works better with using eggs rather than the egg replacer.

Wahoo! You are all still here!
I survived my first year teaching high school - now I am back here thinking about cupcakes.

I am going to check the big recipe file for some smores cupcakes - anyone know of a good one that is in that (or if you have another one - feel free to send it along!)

I am SO glad to be back!