You guys. YOU GUYS. I wanted to share this post with you earlier but I had to stop crying first. Ok, ok, I am being overly dramatic. But let me tell you what happened after I made these rose cupcakes!
I got this *brilliant* idea to make royal icing roses to stick in each cupcake. I spent hours piping out each individual flower with pink and green and then went back in and added an extra detail into each flower. I set them out of the way of the children so they could properly dry away from tiny hands and curious eyes.
I baked cupcakes and piped buttercream roses on top.
Next I assembled. This went a little slower than I thought because I wanted to be so very careful when inserting those roses into the cupcake.
An hour later I had completed 7 dozen cupcakes with beautiful royal icing roses sticking out.
And then.
Then.
I drove to the church. Parked. Got out of the car, walked to the back, opened the door and…
broken. AALL OF THEM. Royal icing roses are just not meant to withstand the jarring of driving. I had nothing to give to the church!
My heart broke into a million pieces… kinda like the roses.
Here is a close up of the leaf detail that I added for the church.
I has added an “ACV” on each leaf. That stands for Alliance Church of the Valley.
Can ya see it?
I just wish the folks at church would have gotten to see them! 🙁
And for the cupcakes themselves I did a simple rosette with a 1M tip. This is the whipped buttercream recipe that I used… my favorite!
You can also add some subtle color for a neat effect.
Kinda neat huh?
If I were going to make these again I would use candy melts (chocolate) and make sure the roses stayed chilled. 🙂
YOU my dear are amazing. I love both the incredibly adorable flower motif and the understated elegance of the Rose topped frosting. You are truly an artist! But I bet you hear that all the time.
I bet all the ladies at Church were just delighted with all the lovely you presented!
Wow! These are one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen! Love them!
gorgeous! i’m going to totally steal this idea!
Oh my gosh, in addition to insane talent, do you read minds? I was JUUUUST playing around with something eerily similar! Except yours are beyond brilliant, so I bow to you (ow, hit my head on the table)! Crazy cute.
Absolutely beautiful – with the flowers and without!
Those flowers are so gorgeous and the monogram in the leaf is very clever! I can’t imagine how you must’ve felt when you found them breaking/broken!
Hi I have a cupcake business in Perth, Australia, I am sure you have heard of “down under” we have enough actors over in America to have put us on the map! Just stumbled upon Flower Cupcakes, really beautiful, I love your rose design icing its just stunning & your flowers in royal icing, what a great idea, im going to do them in chocolate too. A really nice touch for your church group, I hope your heart has mended by now & you are still enjoying the happiness that cupcakes bring to all of our lives! 🙂 cheers Melissa from Oz 🙂
These are so creative and absolutely adorable! Love them.
I love it! I really love the colored icing rose. Beautiful.
Super cute!Love your royal icing roses, sorry to hear that some of them broke. I have tried several royal icing figures to place on cakes before and have had bad luck when transferring them..they always seem to crack!