Cupcakes!

Heyy guys :)

My Mum is getting married July 7th :) This is her second wedding and everybody is trying to make sure it's perfect for her and her hubby to be :) I'm making the wedding cake, and being a bridesmaid AND customising the invites...

She has also asked me to do a cupcake tower, which I have no problem with as I love to make cupcakes:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...x/CUPCAKE1.jpghttp://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...x/CUPCAKE2.jpg

Looove to bake :) :) Anywayyyy I really don't want this to go wrong :) Does anyone have, or can you recommend, a recipe that they love to use for vanilla cupcakes?

I don't have any recipes, but I'm sending a big congrats! From the looks of those cupcakes you are going to rock the cupcake tower! They look delicious! (now I gotta go out and get me some cupcakes:)

How about red velvet cup cakes.....mmmmm

Thank you! I'll pass that on :D The cupcake on the right is a red velvet Rob :) And by far the best Ive ever made and I will be making them on the regular! However Mums theme is pink :( I tried making pink velvet but it didn't quite work, and I'm still experimenting :) If she said I could just make those, Id be more than happy!

Those cupcakes look awesome! I would have to say I am usually more of a chocolate cupcake person. However for my daughters bday one year I did do half chocolate, half vanilla. I also filled them with the opposite flavor filling. They were a hit. What about doing something with angelfood cake? Wouldn't quite be cupcakes, but you could color a thin icing pink. Maybe decorate with fresh fruit, or edible flowers??

I use a basic recipe from AllRecipes online. I also made icing from scratch that was awesome in taste.

A white cake or angel cake or white chocolate batter can all be colored pink, as can icing or ganauche.

Made from scratch, cake is so obscenely cheap to make! Even really great frosting is cheap! The only problem I had was my hand mixer gave up and did trying to mix the frosting. I really needed a stand mixer, which I don't have and won't buy JUST to mix frosting occasionally. So I hand mix it, which takes a long time.

I fell in looooove with some salted caramel cupcakes not long ago, however I have no recipe :( Good luck and 'gratz! When you do get a recipe figured out, cupcake pics are always deliciously cute :D

They look really yummy! Hobby Lobby/Micheals have really cute cupcake paper and decorations you can stick in them. I'm not sure if those stores are in your area, but any craft store should have awesome cupcake stuff. I don't have any good recipes, my cupcakes come out of a box, lol.

Did you already make the invites?

I made my own save the dates, RSVPs, and invites all for about $40 (and I made about 150 of each), here is what my invite looks like.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...chmentaspx.jpg

And if you guys are needing dresses, this site has really great prices. I know it's an international company, but most prom dresses come from China anyhow. One of my bridesmaids got her last bridesmaid dress from this company and was happy with it. www.tbdress.com there are a TON of wedding dresses on that site for next to nothing. I'm sure the dress will come in a box and need steamed though. I ordered my bridesmaid dresses from the site and I'm waiting for them to come in, so I can't vogue for how nice the dresses are or aren't.

Thanks for all the comments guys! Most appreciated :D i think the opposite cake to flavour icing is a great idea :) chocolate with pink icing and pink with chocolate or vanilla In thinking... Also with the invites, mum has the basic invites, but I do cartoony graphics for her business and she wants them :) I love scrapbooking with her though, so they'll no doubt have that extra added touch :D

ValentineP. I've got a recipe for salted caramel Cupcakes if you'd like it? :)

And Thankyou for the dress site! Definitely needed, she's got less than 12 weeks to get all the dresses...