Christmas Cupcakes

I made these Christmas cupcakes for my neighbors instead of Christmas cookies this year.  Rudolph and the holly cupcakes are yellow cake and the Christmas tree is red velvet cake.  They are decorated with red, green, gold, white, black, dark brown, and light brown buttercream icing.  Rudolph is decorated with chocolate buttercream icing and has pretzels for antlers.  It pays to be my neighbor!

Blue and White Soccer Cupcake Cake

These cupcakes were made to celebrate the end of a soccer season for a local girl's rec team.  There are 36 cupcakes; 18 of which are chocolate cake and 18 are yellow cake decorated with blue and white buttercream icing.  Most of the cupcakes made the soccer ball cupcake cake and the remaining cupcakes I decorated with random blue and white stars.  The final price is as follows:

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2 = $5.10

18 Yellow and 18 Chocolate Cupcakes: $1.93 x 1.5 = $2.90
Foils and Plating: $2.81
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 3.5 = $21
Total: $31.81

Full Body Mickey Cake

This chocolate full body Mickey Mouse cake was made for a little boy's second birthday.  I cut out most of my cakes free handed, but I have a ton of cake pans clients occasionally want, so when this client wanted Mickey Mouse I related that I had a full body Mickey Mouse pan and a Mickey Mouse head only pan.  She chose the full body Mickey Mouse pan with the full understanding that I would have to adapt my 1978 vintage Mickey Mouse cake pan to be recognizable for a two year old!  The biggest challenge was the vintage Mickey not having a hand, so I tried to make it look like Mickey's hand was behind his back.  I like how it turned out, but I think if I did this again, I would free hand draw Mickey's hand on his hip.   Mickey's face is my favorite part because I think I free handed that spot on and it was easily the most fun to draw.  The final cost for Mickey is below:

 

Buttercream icing per batch: $2.55 x 2.5 = $6.38

Chocolate Cake: $1.93

Wrapping and Plating $4.88

Labor: $6 per hour x 4.25 = $25.50

Total: $38.69

Baseball Diamond and Glove Cakes

These yellow baseball themed cakes were made for a little boy's first birthday party.  They were both cut from a 9x13 cake pan, and the diamond is decorated with green, chocolate, and white buttercream icing while the glove is decorated with dark brown, light brown, white, and red buttercream icing.   It is difficult to tell from the pictures, but the pitchers mound on the diamond and the baseball on the glove are both raised higher than the rest of the cake.  Likewise the stitching between the fingers of the glove is recessed to give the cake added demission.  The cost of the cakes is as follows:

Baseball Diamond:

Buttercream icing per batch: $2.55 x 1.75 = $4.46
Yellow Cake: $1.93
Wrapping and Plating $4.88
Labor: $6 per hour x 2.5 = $15
Total: $26.27

Ball and Glove:

Buttercream icing per batch: $2.55 x 2 = $5.10
Yellow Cake: $1.93
Wrapping and Plating $4.88
Labor: $6 per hour x 2.25 = $13.50
Total: $25.41

Bridal Shower Monogram Cupcakes

These cupcakes were my first venture into the world of bridal!  The wedding colors were navy and gold and the bridal shower had a fall/ country chic theme, so I made 36 cupcakes accordingly.  Every cupcake was initially iced with flat white buttercream icing and embellished with stars around its circumference.  I also matched the foils and monogram to the wedding colors.  Twelve of the cupcakes were chocolate with navy buttercream, another 12 were yellow cake with chocolate buttercream, and the final 12 were red velvet with gold buttercream icing for the monogram.  The final price of these cupcakes is as follows:

Buttercream icing per Batch: $2.55 x 3.5 = $8.93

12 Yellow, 12 Chocolate, and 12 Red Velvet Cupcakes: $1.93 x 1.5 = $2.90
Foils: $1.50
Labor: $6 per hour x 4 = $24
Total: $37.33

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cupcake Cake

This Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cupcake cake was made for a little girl's second birthday and is made of 15 yellow cupcakes decorated with green, blue, yellow, red, black, and white buttercream icing.  The additional cupcakes were also yellow cake flat iced with white buttercream and decorated with yellow, red, blue, and green buttercream Mickey heads and a black buttercream "2."  My favorite part about cake decorating is when a client asks for something new.  This client really wanted her daughter's birthday message to be written in the Disney font which I had never done before!  It was so much fun to pipe the swirls into every letter and I think it came out perfectly! 

Here is the final cost of the cupcake cake and 12 additional cupcakes. 
Buttercream icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2.75 = $7.01
Yellow Cake: $1.93
Foils and Plating: $2.81
Labor: $6 per hour x 4 = $24
Total: $35.75

25th Birthday Cake

This cake I appropriately named Chocolatepalooza!  It is an 8" round single layer chocolate cake decorated with chocolate, pink, and purple buttercream icing.  I made it especially for a small family birthday celebration for twins who really love chocolate! 

 

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 1.5 = $3.83 (1 chocolate, .25 pink, .25 purple)
Chocolate Cake: $1.93
Wrapping and Plating: $4.88
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 1.5 = $9

Final Cost: $19.64

 

Penguin Cupcake Cake

This was my first ever cupcake cake!  I was a little nervous about how the cupcakes would stick together with the icing, but was super easy.  This is a 15 cupcake cake with 8 yellow cupcakes and 7 chocolate cupcakes all decorated in white, black, grey, and orange buttercream icing.  It ended up being about the same size as a 9x13 cake, but this only fed 15 people whereas a 9x13 cake feeds many more depending on the size of the slices.  Below is my final price:

 

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2.25 = $5.74  (1 white, .5 gray, .5 black, .25 orange)
15 Yellow and Chocolate Cupcakes Mixed: $1.20
Foils and Plating: $2.50
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 3 = $18

Total: $27.44

Spiderman, Superman, and Batman Cupcakes

These cupcakes were made for a little boy’s third birthday who happens to LOVE superheroes! I made 12 of each design and made half of each design chocolate cupcakes and the other half yellow cupcakes in case a guest really wanted a Spiderman chocolate cupcake!  The Spiderman cupcakes have red foils and are decorated with solid red buttercream icing, drizzled black buttercream icing resembling a web, and white and black buttercream icing making the eyes of the mask.  The Superman cupcakes have blue foils and are decorated with solid blue buttercream icing with yellow and red buttercream icing making the Superman logo on top.  I also specialized one of the Superman cupcakes with the little boy’s name and special logo.  The Batman cupcakes have yellow foils and are decorated with solid yellow buttercream icing and the black Batman symbol hand drawn with black buttercream icing.  These were quite time consuming to make, but I think they turned out splendid! 

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 3.25 = $8.29 (1 red, .5 black, .25 white, .5 blue, 1 yellow)
Yellow and Chocolate Cake: $1.93 x 2 = $3.86 (18 yellow, 18 chocolate)
Foils: $3

Labor: $6.00 per hour x 5 = $30
Total: $45.15

Flower Cupcakes

 These cupcakes were made for a client to use as end of the school year thank you gifts for her children’s teachers.  I made the cupcakes and the rest of the presentation was all the creative energy of my client!  The cupcakes are yellow cake and decorated with pink, purple, and yellow buttercream icing to look like flowers. I even found green foils to look like stems.  Adding the cost of the foils is not something I have done when making cupcakes in the past, but as that side of my business grows I feel I must add it as a cost.  Thus, the cost of the cupcakes is as follows:

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 1.5 = $3.83
Yellow Cake: $1.93 x.5 = $.97
Foils: $1
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 1.5 = $9

Total: $14.80

#3 Thomas the Train Cake

This yellow cake was cut from a 9x13 cake pan for three year old twin boys who are in love with Thomas the Train!  It is decorated with blue, gray, black, and green buttercream icing with ice cream cone trees covered in green icing.  The train pieces belonged to the boys and were sat on top of the train tracks at the last minute before the party.  The price for this cake is as follows:

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2 = $5.10
Yellow Cake: $1.93
Wrapping and Plating: $4.88

Ice Cream Cones: $.76
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 2 = $12
Subtotal: $24.67

Thomas the Train Cake

This cake was made for three year old twin boys who are in love with Thomas the Train!  The engine is a chocolate cake while the lumber car is yellow.  Both are cut from a 9x13 cake pan.  They are decorated with blue, gray, white, black, green, and yellow buttercream icing and linked together by Twizzlers.  The logs on top of the lumber car are Twix candy.  Below is the final price for this cake that easily fed 35-40 people depending on how large the pieces are cut. 

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2.75 = $7.01

Chocolate and Yellow Cake: $1.93 x 2 = $3.86
Wrapping and Plating: $4.88
Candy (Twizzlers and Twix): $4.67 (I'll give you the extra candy for your party.)
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 4 = $24
Total: $44.42