Success!

I spent all day on Friday making cupcakes for my sister in laws wedding.  I made 150 in 3 hours then I made two 6 in round layers for the cake top.  I made them all from scratch-6 batches of cake batter!

But look how cute and round they came out!

 (this was the second batch, I had to do some recipe tweaking to make them cute like this)

This is 81 of the 150.  The top of my portable dishwasher was completely covered!

The next project was to transport them all 45 minutes to my inlaws.....

out of the 150 about 130 survived the trip.  I tried to make more when I got there but I can't cook anything in my mother-in-laws gas oven so the 2 dozen I tried to make turned into a bowlful of crumbs.

After a lot more expirementing, I figured out the right frosting and the right technique to get them frosted cute and swirly.

Here are my practice ones on the stand my husband made for me to display them on

Saturday morning I spent 4 hours frosting the rest of my cupcakes. My arm was so tired. I am not sure if it was lucky or not but I was using a cookie press.  It was nice because all I had to do was push a button and swirl it but at the same time I could only frost 5 at a time before having to refill it. 

Whether it was worth it or not, after 4 hours and 8 batches of buttercream frosting I had them all done.

After the wedding I had to set up the cake for the reception.  It took longer than I anticipated but in the end I think it was worth it.

What do you think?

a closer view of the flowers

I think it was worth all of the work.  It was exactly what she wanted and I did survive. 

Maybe one day I will consider actually trying to get paid for cakes.

We will see......