Request: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
Archived on 07/22/2009
How do you make a cupcake cake? I've seen them in the bakery and they are so cute. It looks like it would be easy to make, but how do I keep the cupcakes together while icing them? How do I fill in the gaps between the cupcakes to make a smooth layer of icing on top? Any suggestions? Patricia S from Alabama
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RE: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
I have not made this myself, but here is how it is done.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You'll Need:
- 2 boxes moist butter cake mix
- 1 1/2 tsp. of marshmallow flavoring
- 4 containers of white butter cream frosting
- 6 tsp. of marshmallow frosting
- Food coloring
- Plastic sandwich bags
- Using the directions that are on the cake boxes make two round cakes.
- Follow the directions on the box mix to make as many cupcakes as you desire.
- Cool the cakes and cupcakes completely before you begin to assemble your cake.
- Use 1/2 cup of butter cream frosting to sandwich round cakes together. Flatten the top layer, then cover the top and the sides with the remaining butter cream frosting.
- Put the cake in the refrigerator and let it chill for 1 to 2 hours.
- Take the remaining 2 pints of butter cream frosting and put it into four different bowls. Add a teaspoon and a half of marshmallow flavoring to each of the frosting bowls. Add different food colorings into each of the frosting bowls.
- Pour the different colored frosting into four small sandwich bags with about 1/2 cup of each color. Use scissors and cut a small slit on one side of the bottom of each bag and lightly pipe varying sizes of dots on the layer cake.
- Frost the cupcakes with the remaining colored butter cream frosting.
- Stack the frosted cupcakes in a three-level pyramid on top of the cake to begin the layers of the cupcake cake.
- Continue to build the pyramid by adding seven cupcakes to the bottom layer, three to the middle layer and one cupcake on top.
(03/24/2008)
By DGBurton
RE: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
We just got one shaped like a cross for Easter. They just put a lil bit of icing on the bottoms of the cupcakes to hold them in place. Then the just iced the tops. Then added roses across the top and down the center of the cross. (03/25/2008)
By meluvchris418
RE: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
I'm pretty sure they use a form to hold the cupcakes in place while they are being frosted. In fact, perhaps the form goes with the item. If so, you could buy a cupcake cake the first time, then use the form to arrange them to make your own the next time. (03/25/2008)
By Katie A.
RE: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
Wilton sells a wide (about 2") flat icing tip, get it at Michael's with a newspaper coupon for a couple of dollars. Then just put your cupcakes together in the shape you want (I did a pumpkin for Halloween.) If you're moving it by car, put a dab of icing underneath each one to hold in place, if not you don't need to.
Just ice the whole top with the wide tip, you can use a freezer bag to hold the icing with a hole in one corner (barely let the opening of the tip fit through the hole, be careful not to make it too big). Then decorate any way you want. It's so easy to pull the cupcakes apart, and there isn't a ton of leftover (wasted) icing.
I saw this in Women's Day magazine and it worked amazingly well. That tip can be re-used any time you want to ice a cake. Don't fill your cupcake papers too full, you want the tops to be flat. I use a 1/4 cup measure and do it quickly so it doesn't actually drop the full 1/4 cup. (03/26/2008)
By Estella
RE: How to Make a Cupcake Cake
The first answer is correct, it is called a base-ice tip and you should put a dab of icing under each cupcake it will shift even with a little movement. And refrigeration helps to set the icing. (10/27/2008)
By Kay
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