Sugared by Andrea

I love making cupcake cakes. I hate making regular cakes.

Cupcake cakes > Regular cakes

First of all, you do not need any silverware to eat a cupcake cake, it requires no cutting... just pull it apart and eat it!

But, the main reason I like cupcake cakes so much: they are soooooo easy to make. 

I promise, and I am going to help you make your own.

We will start of with an easy one, A Butterfly.

Dresses are also easy: seen here.

First thing you need is cupcakes. I made some of my vanilla bean cupcakes. Use any recipe you like, here is a good one from food.com

(or use a box mix. No one will judge, you are among friends)

You also need something to put the butterfly on- I use cake boards from Wilton & I buy them off amazon because I have almost figured out how to use amazon prime to never have to step foot in to an actual store. I buy these, but any are fine.

Then you need to arrange your butterfly. For this cupcake cake, this is how you arrange your cupcakes:

This particular cake is smaller, it only takes 14 cupcakes. If you wanted a larger cake or to incorporate more cupcakes, you could just expand its "wings"

Then make your frosting. I use my FAVORITE crusting buttercream. This is the one thing that I will not say is ok to buy from a store. It is too easy to make your own frosting and a lot of store bought frosting tastes like chemicals. My frosting recipe is here.

The customer that ordered this cake wanted bright colors, primarily purple. I went with purple, pink, blue, and yellow. I also used some sugar pearl sprinkles.

Then all you have to do is decorate your cupcake cake however you wish and you are finished!

And always use any leftovers to taste test... for quality control purposes ;)

Happy Baking!