A couple of cupcakes

A quick little view of some specialty cupcakes I did recently. The top photos are fondant Tiffany cupcakes covering chocolate devil's food cake and the bottom ones are vanilla cupcakes with swiss buttercream and fondant Elmo toppers.

Right now I'm dabbling with the idea of creating an Etsy shop that will sell edible and keepsake polymer cake toppers. What do you think? Would you shop for some handmade cake toppers for your little one's birthday?

DIY Cake Stands

Last weekend I participated in the Crafty Affaire in White Rock hoping to sell some of my arts and crafts. Because it was a local show I thought I would create a hand-painted fondant mini-cake and some sugar paste cake toppers to see if I could drum up some more interest in my cake decorating. My only problem though was that I didn't have a proper cake stand to display my creations. Not to worry, a quick search on Pinterest and I found the easiest solutions to making my own cake stands.

I picked up a decorative plate and a ceramic platter along with a sundae dish and a brass candle holder to create two lovely cake stands with a little help from E6000 glue. I found out later that the platter would not be food safe so I will keep that for other displays.

What do you think? I think they turned out pretty great considering they ended up costing me about $6 each.