A Cupcake Bar

Today was a fun baking day! My hubby and I had the best day baking together. I love it when he helps me out, because he helps to keep my MESS under control. He is the neat freak and I am the slob when it comes to baking. I had powdered sugar flying as I whipped up the frostings and he had the batters in three clean bowls with NO trace of frosting on the sides!

After show-n-tell last month, we decided to try out a cupcake cafe my friend, Linda had told us about. After all, we were on vacation and in desperate need of lotsa sugar. OH!MY! We had gotten the cupcakes to go and ended up devouring them in the car before we even left the parking lot!

It was great because we got to choose what kind of frosting we wanted on our cupcakes. Brilliant idea, don't you think!

SOOOO, now that you have the scoop, I decided it would be fun to create a "CUPCAKE BAR" and I think you would love to do one, too.

All you need to do is to make a couple of different kind of cupcakes. Since my hubby was listening to his PANDORA MIX he made HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW VANILLA CUPCAKES and WILD WILD WEST BROWNIE CUPCAKES {he is a ball of energy let me tell ya!} while I made three different kinds of frosting.

If you want even more sugar...you can dip your frosted cupcakes into toppings. The bulk section of large grocery stores is a great place for finding cupcake toppings!

Each batch of frosting was put into a pastry bag and labeled.




We decided to make mini cupcakes, so that each guest can taste a variety without getting sick!



Here is a suggestion: These are available online or at JoAnns. Use your 50% off coupon and it will be less than buying individual bags and tips~


Photo Credit: Wilton Website

*This stand could hold ice cream cones, paper cones with carmel corn, party favors put into pasry bags, cotton candy...oh!my! I may need to save a coupon! :) Sorry I got off on the bunny trail!


If you wanted, you could also pre-pipe frosing into souffle cups for a bit less of a mess. I kinda think the messier the tastier! :}



GRADUATION PARTY: I think this would make for a fun graduation party dessert bar! By the time we were finished with all of the graduation parties last year, I could NOT look at one more cake for a long time after the last Open House. If I were hosting a party I would have friends make a couple of batches of the senior's favorite cupcake flavors and maybe delegate a few frosting flavors, a few toppings and enjoy the day with a fun spin on dessert!

One more thing: You could easily adjust your frosting flavors and embelishments to go with any holiday or celebration!



On second thought...they will both be a bit messy. :)


I think they are going to have a lot of fun mixing and matching, don't you!

Have a Happy Happy Friday!



Idea shared with: inspirational friday, pink saturday, sweet treats for a saturday, comfy in the kitchen, a bowl full of lemons, foodie friday, cupcake carnival