Bridal Shower Cake Adventure

I am in love with Pinterest. I find so many things I want to try. I'll get so excited, click on it and NOTHING. No link describing how to make it. This post is about one of those. I was making a cake for a bridal shower. I found the cute cupcake dress cake, but no instructions. I had to keep looking at the pic to try to figure it out....and had to make an emergency trip to the craft store for supplies half way thru. So I've decided to give the instructions to anyone else wanting to make it.

What you need:

27 cupcakes

cake board

icing

spatula

Wilton tip 1D

icing bags and coupler

sprinkles or candy

First, make the cupcakes. You can use any cake mix that you'd like. I used white cupcake liners to go with the bridal dress. You could use this for any color dress and use liners to match your theme. Place the cupcakes in the design.
2 rows of 4, a row of 2, a row of 3, a row of 4, 2 rows of 5. Use a dab of icing on the bottom of the cupcakes to keep them in place. It should look like this....

Next, icing the 'cake'. I used butter cream icing...I LOVE my butter cream icing recipe. It is delish!!I didn't want any cupcake showing, so I completely iced the 'cake' using an icing spatula. This will also connect the cupcakes. It should look similar to this.

Next is the swirls. I put icing into a pastry bag with the tip 1D on it. This is a large tip and takes a large coupler. It is used for the cupcake swirl. I also suggest using the 16 inch bags. I started off with the 12 inch and only got about 2 cupcakes done before having to add more icing. So I ran to JoAnn's and got the bigger bags. MUCH nicer. I actually also bought the tip then. I originally had another tip, because I wasn't sure which to use. I didn't like how it looked so I bought the 1D. It's much better. Starting on the edge I just swirled it around and into the center. I did this with each 'cupcake'.

Then I decorated with sprinkles and candy pearls. I used these...

I sprinkled the Sanding Sugar Opal over the whole cake. Then I used the Shimmer White Sugar on the top 2 rows and the bottom row. It's hard to capture the sprinkles on camera.

Use your creativity to decorate it however you want to. Then I used the pearls to form a 'belt'. I did 4 rows of the pearls. I put them on the top of the row of 2 cupcakes.

Then I wanted a little accent piece. You can use anything you want. I saw one use 2 pink roses. Onto wax paper, I made a swirl like that on each cupcake. Then I put purple and the larger white sprinkles on it. I put it in the freezer to set up, then placed it on the cake. And Ta-Da!! A cupcake Bridal cake. For the extra cupcakes, I did the swirl technique and then put different color sprinkles on them. The theme for our shower was very colorful. Again, you could do whatever tied in with your theme.

For the extra cupcakes, I did the swirl technique and then put different color sprinkles on them. The theme for our shower was very colorful. Again, you could do whatever tied in with your theme. I hope this helps someone!