Cupcakes Bouquet

These cupcakes and cupcake bouquet were made for a wedding shower, the wedding colors were purple and green and she loved gerberas and cala lilies, so we decided to incorporate both into her shower and make a cupcake bouquet and then individual cupcakes besides. I loved the way that it turned out!

Use gum paste with purple food coloring.

Shape the flower by using the ball tool to thin out the edges.

To make 1 gerbera cut out 2 large, 1 medium, and 1 small. Use a yellow middle mold for the center. For the bouquet you will need 7 gerberas.

Pearl dust each flower to give it a shimmer.

To make the bouquet buy an 8" diameter bowl. We couldn't find a big enough styrofoam ball so what we did was bought a circle foam to fit the bowl and cut the styrofoam ball to fit inside of it.

Making the calla lily.

Use gum paste glue to hold everything together. (a little ball of gum paste with a teaspoon of water and mix till it becomes a paste.)

Gently fold down the edges of the lily.

This is the bowl covered with tulle held together with toothpicks. The cups are to keep the cupcakes from falling off the bowl. We couldn't find the right cup size for the cupcakes as the plastic glasses were all too tall so we cut them with scissors and melted the top with a match, just so they wouldn't be sharp. Drill a small hole through the middle and skewer them to the styrofoam bowl.

Even if we didn't put the gerberas and calla lillies in and just left the cupcakes like this I think it still looks pretty.

The calla lillies were not put in the cupcakes but just placed between them. There were 7 cupcakes with gerberas in the bouquet.

Next we decorated the individual cupcakes with the same color scheme.