Large Cupcake Party Cake Mini Tutorial

Below I have shown a little mini tutorial on how I made this Large Cupcake Cake. I borrowed a mould from my friend because I didn't see the point in buying one just for this one cake.  I cheated in that I bought most of the things ready made but I have never said I am a cook. This was the first Party Cake that I have ever made, it may not be perfect but I was pleased with my results considering I have never done this before!

Requirements:

• Cupcake Mould
• 4 Boxes of Cake Mixture (I think I needed eggs for this!)
• Apricot Jam
• Ready Made Icing Block
• Ready Made Frosting
• Marzipan
• Chocolate Sweets for decoration
• Sprinkles for decoration
• Food coloring

 My Mini Tutorial:

• I greased the two large cupcake moulds.
• I used 2 cupcake packet mixes inside each mould. 
• I cooked in the oven - I reduced the heat a little and cooked for longer as the instructions on the box were for small cupcakes!
• Once cooked take out and allow to cool down.
• I had to trim a bit of the cake to make them even and flat to balance on top of each other properly.
• I placed white icing over the bottom of the cake. I then added pink icing strips to the bottom of the cake. ( I copied instructions from youtube videos on how to icing!)
• I placed pink icing onto the top of the cake (I should have left it white as I ended up decorating over the top later!)
• Then using apricot jam in the middle I secured the top of the cake to the bottom of the cake.
• Then I added the frosting onto the top of the cake. I tried to make swirls with the frosting bag but it turned out terrible - So I used a fork and swirled the whole cake with that!
• I then added sprinkles to the top of the cake.
• I also added the remaining frosting to the plate that the cake was standing on.
• I then decorated the cake with chocolate buttons and flowers.
• I rolled a piece of coloured marzipan into a ball and placed this on the top of the cake as a cherry.

 I have already blogged about the:
Cupcake Party Theme: cupcake-party-theme
Cupcake Pinata Tutorial: cupcake-pinata-tutorial

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Cupcake Pinata Tutorial

This is a photograph of a Cupcake Pinata that I recently made for a party. The whole party was a Cupcake Theme. Here is the link to my post about the party: cupcake-party-theme

Things to use for the shape of the cupcake - I used a wastepaper bin for the base and a mixing bowl for the top and a tennis ball for the cherry. You can find other things that are similar in shape. I used wallpaper paste for the paper mache but you could make up your own recipe. I wanted the width of the top to match roughly the same shape as the bottom so that they fit together nicely. You could decorate a stick with tissue paper for the pinata bashing stick. When removing the paper mache from the moulds don't worry too much if it tears - you can staple or glue it together because you are decorating it so you can cover any errors.

Requirements:

• Waste Paper Bin
• Mixing Bowl
• Tennis Ball
• Cling Film
• Newspapers (Cut in strips)
• Wallpaper paste
• Tissue Paper (variety of colours)
• Basic PVA / Craft Glue
• Cord or String (to hang up the Pinata)

Step 1: Prepare the paper mache paste (I used Wallpaper paste) I used a disposable plastic bowl for the paste.
Step 2: Place Cling Film around the bin and around the plastic mixing bowl (This helps to remove the paper mache from them.
Step 3: Place the strips of paper and paste all over the bin and bowl. ( I only went to the height I required.) I did about 2 layers.
Step 4: Allow these to dry (I left overnight) I applied another layer the next day - but its up to you how you prefer.
Step 5: Once dry - remove the paper mache moulds from the bin and the bowl carefully.

  

Step 6: I cut small pieces of tissue paper and scrunched them up into small balls and glued them onto the bowl mould - this took quite a while! My children joined in with this part of the project.

Step 7: Place the scrunched up balls of tissue paper around the tennis ball - this makes the cherry.
Step 8: Decorate the bottom of the cake (bin part) as you wish - I chose large coloured strips down the side.
Step 9: Once the glue has dried I attached the cherry by stapling it to the top - you could either glue it on or find another way to attach it. I also added long strips to the underneath of the cupcake (optional).
Step 10: I attached the string to the top of the cupcake - by making 2 slits evenly measured and tying knots hidden underneath the cupcake top.

Step 11: Fill the pinata with your chosen goodies - I chose things not to heavy!
Step 12: Attach the top to the bottom of the cupcake. I had to slightly cut into the top of the bottom of the cake to make sure that the top slid onto the bottom more easily, I hope that makes sense! To fasten this I had to place strong clips through both. I did try to staple the two together but my stapler is not a heavy duty one and it didn't work - but it should with a good stapler!
Step 13: Hang your Pinata and watch as the party children totally destroy your hard work arghhhhh!

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