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I am a photographer by trade who recently developed a cupcake obsession. I have been baking up a storm the last few weeks learning to make them from scratch, making all sorts of frosting and learning to decorate them like the pros. Okay, I am not a pro yet, but I’m making progress.
I love anything cupcakes so I was thrilled when I was asked to try a product called “Cupcake Cuties”. I agreed before even knowing what they were. I went online and found their website and started looking around. At cupcakecuties.com, I found they had a wide assortment of products to help decorate cupcakes for pretty much any occasion. From birthday parties to Super Bowl parties, they have a large variety of kits ready for you to complete your cupcakes.
Each kit comes ready to decorate up to 24 cupcakes. They include cupcake wrappers to fit the theme and whatever decorations are required to complete the look, minus the frosting. The two I received were the Bunny Face for Easter and Jungle Animals. I opened each box and just as advertised, everything I needed was included.
To start, I needed 24 cupcakes for each kit. Normally I would bake my cakes from scratch, but to save time, I used a box mix for each batch. For the Bunny Faces, I made a white cake, but colored it pink for a fun Easter look. For the Jungle animals, I wanted a chocolate fudge, but my shelf was empty so I settled for a bright red velvet. Then, for the frosting, I hadn’t set out any butter or cream cheese so I settled for canned frosting.
After I had 48 cupcakes ready and frosted I pulled out the kits and with the help of my eight year old daughter and our six year old neighbor, we started to decorate the Bunny Cakes. The pipe cleaners that came with the box were full length and we had to cut them down to two different sizes for the bunny ears. Guessing, I cut some in half and some in thirds, this made for just the right size to double them up and make the ears. I showed the girls how to wrap the cake with the liner, which was to simply pull the tab off the sticky end, wrap it around the cake and press it together. Then I demonstrated, according to the instructions that came with the kit, how to put in the pipe cleaner ears. They seemed confident, so I let them assemble the bunnies while I cut the rest of the pipe cleaners. It was simple and the girls had fun mixing the colors and putting their own touch and ideas to it. When we were finished, we had 24 cute little funny bunnies smiling back at us.
The Jungle Animals turned out much simpler and I loved the look of the finished cake. The box came with 12 zebra and 12 cheetah spotted cupcake wrappers, two jars of sprinkles, one black and one white, and then two dozen plastic jungle animals. According to the directions, the sprinkles came first. I put the sprinkles in two small bowls and simply “dipped” the frosted cake into the sprinkles giving them a nice even covering. Then the girls wrapped the cupcakes with their choice of pattern and topped them with the animals. It was simple and fun and my boys really wanted to take the animals off the cakes and play with them.
Now I had 48 Cupcake Cutie cupcakes and no party in sight. Good thing it was scout night, and I happen to be an assistant den leader. I took both trays of cupcakes to pack meeting and at the end of the night not a single cake was left. I heard some of the boys talking excitedly about getting to keep the animals and the little girls loved the bunnies. A couple of moms asked about them and I told them about the company and the kits and how simple they were to put together.
I thought they were fun and creative and can simplify putting together your dessert for a themed party (I wish I had seen them before my favorite team won the Super Bowl this year). They even have a Cutie of the Month Club where you automatically receive a shipment of a kit for whatever holiday is happening for every month. All the kits I looked at were fun and cute and seemed simple to put together, easy for grown ups and great for kids to help out too.
About the Author: Brekke Felt is an award winning photographer from Pleasant Grove, Utah. Specializing in child portraiture with a side specialization in food photography and a new found addiction to cupcake baking. See her professional work at www.feltphotography.com, and follow her journey baking and photographing her favorite treat, cupcakes at www.brekkecakes.com
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Oh the popcorn one is too cute!
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That Layered Cake one is so fun!!
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LOVE the sushi kit. The popcorn one is cute too.
I can’t decide which one like more! The jungle, the buttered popcorn or the football one!
I like the ice cream cone one and the Cuties for a Cure ones!
I tweeted to enter and followed everyone and liked on FB! Love love LOVE the sushi kit! How dang cute is that???
These are so fun!!! I love the sushi and the popcorn kits!!!
I’m throwing a bridal shower for my sister and would love one of the wedding kits!
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I like the festive Happy Birthday Cupcake Cuties Kit
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