My adorable niece turned 2 on March 10. To quote the little love, "March 10's my birthday. I be 2!" Her Mom and Dad asked me if I could make an owl cake, or cupcakes, for her party, and I was so excited! I had so many ideas, it was hard to pinpoint just one!
And it worked! I fell in love with the goofy little free-form owls.
The cupcakes were vanilla cake, recipe from the back of the King Arthur Cake Flour box, which might be my new favorite vanilla cake. And the frosting was the swiss buttercream with which I have fallen completely in love!
I still don't love the idea of using fondant, since I don't care for its taste, but have tried my hand at melting chocolate. It's not a universal switch, but it can be pretty useful! For the idea of the owl cupcake display, I wanted the owls to be elevated above the letters. I had seen a post on a blog seen on tastespotting.com a while back about making cupcake stands from chocolate, so I thought I would try to make "tree" stands to hold the owls.
So when the big birthday party came, I set up the display. I was pretty happy with the fact that the thought I dreamed up actually came together!
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