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. 🙂
OH MY!! your photos are outstanding! I know the work you put into all of these cakes and I must say it’s a labor of love, and it shows. You sure have a talent there.. Awesome
I love the way you iced the cupcakes… They look amazing! I’ll have to practice that this weekend since I am making cupcakes for a picnic. The royal icing roses are stunning, as well!
Beautiful cupcakes. Love the idea of the royal icing flowers. I’m going to try doing that sometime.
Hope you have a great weekend. ~ Sarah
Beautiful artwork 🙂
I love the royal icing flowers! I tried to do an outline with royal icing for a cake because of your last royal icing post and it didn’t work for me. The designs just ended up crumbling into lots of pieces when I tried to move them onto the cake. 🙁 Any tricks/tips you can share??? 🙂
Wow. WOW! You are just so talented. You never cease to amaze me by your creativity and talent. I’ve featured you on my blog today. Again. Because you’re amazing.
~Jenifer
these are GORGEOUS! soooo heartbreaking that they all broke though!
oh well, the frosting technique is still lovely
sadly, i doubt i have the patience to do either (stellar) method, but the decorative frosting rose is my best bet. i love the choice of color you’ve added–the red-merging-into-yellow-orange is lovely. 🙂
they look so beautiful! I was wondering how you managed to get the peach/rose colored icing to be so wonderfully toned to get that yellow underneath to red edges effect? Thank you 🙂
How beautiful! I love this idea and I really like how you fit the church’s initials in to the leaves! Brilliant!