In talking to her boyfriend (the one who is financing the cupcakes), he said that she is spunky, fun, loved tie-dye, and her favorite flower is the Stargazer Lily.
So I made red velvet cupcakes and put two or three little red fondant blossoms with pearl centers on the top of each. Not really spunky, but perhaps fun. I made "tie-dye" fondant stars to put on top of the creamscicle. I chose chocolate cupcakes with Bailey's coffee frosting, and made chocolate swirls and chocolate zigzags. And for the mini cake, I made an off-center stacked red velvet (her favorite) filled with cream cheese, iced in buttercream, and topped with three handmade, handpainted Stargazer Lilies crafted from gumpaste. The picture above doesn't show the beading I piped around the bottom of the cake once it was moved to the platter, but boy howdy... am I proud of that cake! If she wants to eat the lilies, she could--though gumpaste tastes nasty. But they'll also stay in that form for a really, really long time, so if she wanted to keep them, she could do that, too!
The party is tonight, so we'll see how the feedback goes. Sometimes I'm surprised that I'm so willing to give away something that I work so hard on. But isn't that why I do this in the first place? This is my art... you don't hang it on walls, but I can be sure that for the next few days, people will be talking about this cake!
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