Cupcakes aren't just for kids anymore

Our youngest daughter was married a couple of weeks ago, and we did these fun cupcakes for refreshments at the reception. The treats ended up looking elegant and were pretty quick to put together and personalize for her. Cupcakes have become very popular lately--you could probably come up with lots of great ways to adapt this idea.















We started with a basic white cake mix for the cupcakes, filled them with a cream cheese filling, then topped them with whipped topping and decorations. The recipe for the filling will be at the end of this post.















Since the bride's colors were purple and silver, we used silver cupcake liners. We put tip #230 onto a standard sized pastry bag with a standard coupler. Then we filled the bag with the cream cheese mixture.

Insert the tip into the middle of the cupcake until you the tip touches the bottom of the loner. Make sure you do this on a hard surface as the tip can break through the bottom of the cupcake liner if you have it on a cooling rack.

Then slowly withdraw the tip as you squeeze the filling into the cupcake. Normal cupcakes are pretty dense, so you will only fill the hole the tip has created. If you want to add more filling, you can make two or three holes in the cupcake.













We froze the cupcakes for a couple of weeks until the wedding, and they defrosted just fine, including the filling. Once we reached the church where we held the reception, we pulled the cupcakes out to finish them off.
























We used Cool Whip as the topping, but any similar topping would work fine. Use Atco tip #826 or any other large open star tip in the pastry bag. We filled the bag with the whipped topping, and slowly swirled it on top.

Once the pan of cupcakes was done, we sprayed the tops with a light coating of violet color mist, then topped them with sweetheart charms.










Out on the refreshment table, we set up the cupcakes on a decorative tree.







There are lots of other colors or candies you could put on the cupcakes instead if you wanted to mix it up. There are also fun party picks available to put in the cupcakes. The picks come in holiday themed snowmen, to Disney's Tinkerbell. We stock a large selection.


Cream Cheese filling
8 oz block of cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup of cream for whipping

Mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth. In another bowl, whip the cream until firm peaks form, then incorporate with sugar mixture. Keep refrigerated until shortly before you serve. You can add different colors or flavors to this filling too.