Cupcake Skirmish

You may be familiar with a cable TV show titled "Cupcake Wars".  If not, the premise is that cupcake bakers are eliminated in a series of cupcake baking competitions with the final competition being a 1000 cupcake display created in 2 hours.

So I wasn't in a cupcake war, I was in a cupcake skirmish (a skirmish being a small battle as opposed to an all-out war) today.  With a little help from my BFF sidekick Margie (who gets roped into MANY of my frosted insanity moments), I knocked out and delivered a total of 360 cupcakes for 2 separate events.  Took me WAAAAY longer than 2 hours, but we had a lot of fun (and yummy!) cupcakes to show for it. (and a HUGE mess in the kitchen!)

Before:

and AFTER

Lemon Meringue Pie Cupcakes

(Shortbread crust, lemon cupcake, lemon filling with merengue topping)

Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake

(vanilla cupcake, strawberry filling, whipped cream topping with a strawberry garnish)

Red Velvet

(red velvet cupcake with cream cheese buttercream frosting)

Caramel Apple Spice

(Apple spice cupcake with caramel drizzle, cinnamon cream cheese frosting topped with toasted pecans)

Triple Chocolate

(Triple chocolate brownie fudge cake dipped in ganache, topped with a

 marshmallow cream frosting and shaved chocolate bar garnish)

The tower of purse cupcakes

The vanilla cupcakes were dipped in melted buttercream, the purses are all made of fondant.