Cupcake Cakes and Pull Apart Cakes - the Hot New Trend in Cakes!

Examples of Cupcake Cakes

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  Photo by: freakgirl

  
  Photo by: freakgirl

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  Photo by: freakgirl

  
  
  Photo by: nosferatu9nin

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  Photo by: nosferatu9nin

  
  Photo by: nosferatu9nin

• Photo by: Simply Sweets

Simple Cupcake Cake Directions

To get you started on your first Cupcake Cake

• 1Bake your favorite cupcakes - any kind (box is fine) - in liners as usual. Be sure to fill only 3/4 full so that there is not too much of a dome at the top.
• 2Trim the dome of cupcakes if they rose too much. (this is not absolutely necessary, but may be needed if you have very rounded cupcakes - it is best to do your best to make as close to level cupcakes to start with) - I don't trim if there is only a little roundness ... use your judgment - you just want a nice surface at the end.
• 3After cupcakes are cool, place them on a surface that will be your final serving surface (such as a cookie sheet or piece of cardboard covered with tinfoil).
• 4Push them together snugly in the shape that is desired. (you can look at pictures on this page for ideas). To make the shape that I made on the pink cake above with the stroller on it, place them together in a square, but with rows slightly offset from each other so they fit together more snugly. - you want the least amount of space possible between cupcakes.
  (the pink cake above is large - I used 34 cupcakes - they are in rows of 4 and 6 alternating - you can make it similar but smaller by doing 3 and 5, or 2 and 4...)
• 5Frost across all cupcakes as if they were one cake (you may need to hold some in place if they are moving) - if you find there is too much movement, you can also put a small drop of frosting under the cupcake to keep it sticking to the surface a little and avoid slipping.
• 6If you did a shape like the flowers or the Dora face, you would clearly use different colors in different areas....and no border is needed.
  -If you did a simple design like the stroller cake, you will want to add a border. - Add border by putting your accent color into a frosting bag, frosting decorator, ziplock bag with corner trimmed, or use a prepackaged frosting tube. Go around the rounded sections along the edges, so you can accent the cupcakes. By doing this people can see that it is a cupcake cake, and it also shows off a pretty edging that gives it character that sets it apart from the typical square cake.
• 7Add small candies such as M&M's, chocolate chips or mints on any area of the border that you needed to stop and move etc... (any imperfections in border) - then add more around the border to make it look like Confetti etc... (see the Stroller pic)
• 8Add small candies such as M&M's, chocolate chips or mints on any area of the border that you needed to stop and move etc... (any imperfections in border) - then add more around the border to make it look like Confetti etc... (see the Stroller pic)
• 9Serve it up and WOW your guests.