A Cupcake Goodbye
June 1st, 2010 | Author: OttawaMom
Last week was a busy one around here. Not only did we have the usual extra curricular activities to attend (soccer, ballet, school assembly, recital etc.) but I had my very first big, non-family, cupcake order to complete and we said goodbye to my son’s best friend and his family.
In fact the cupcake order and the goodbye were related. Just before Christmas last year, my friend S told me there was a possibility that their family would be moving to Holland, if an opportunity for her husband panned out. Well as luck would have it for them, it did and takes them away from Ottawa for a year!!
Fast forward to a few months ago, and my friend asked me if I could come up with a Holland themed cupcake. She wanted to have a little goodbye party in each of her son’s classes at school and thought it would be great if the cupcake somehow reflected the country they would be temporary residents of. Well the parties were last Friday, so I spent my week making chocolate tulips, to go on top of 4 dozen cupcakes.
4 Dozen cupcakes waiting to be decorated
Chocolated, molded tulips
Finished product
Needless to say the cupcakes were a big hit (who doesn’t like cake!!). DD and I attended the goodbye party in my son’s class (she’s going to miss Z as much as my son) and were treated to not only cupcakes, but a short video as well. My son’s teacher is brilliant and found an age appropriate video on Holland, so the kids could familiarize themselves with the country their classmate would be calling home for a year.
So now the parties are over, the goodbyes have been said and Z and his family have arrived safely in Holland to begin their new adventure. Meanwhile my son and I are learning to adjust without our friends and are thankful that technology will keep them close, even though they are so far away. Oh and we are counting down the months until their return 
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These are AMAZING. I am salivating.
I need some cake advice. I am going to attempt a wedding-esque cake for my sister’s bridal shower and I have never done anything like this before. I’m picturing something like the strawberry shortcake cake you made or maybe the flowers and butterflies one.
Questions for you:
* did you have to use special cake pans to get the nice round and tall shape?
* do you have to carve the cake afterwards to make it all flat and smooth on the top and bottom?
* how do you get one layer to sit on the other — is there cardboard inbetween? or just icing?
* do you decorate the bottom half (like the stripes on the shortcake one) before you put the top half on?
Yikes, wish me luck. You can email me at lynnturtlehead at gmail dot com with any and all advice!
Wow – Beautiful cupcakes!
Those are amazing. Now I want a cupcake!
Oh those are beautiful! Great job. Hey when you describe the scene in the classes it made me thing of the year that I was away (I totally forgot to tell you about it). When I was in grade 5 my father got a teaching job abroad. A few times that year I wrote letters to the whole class, and a few to some closer friends. It was a wonderful way to keep in touch.
Hi – do you do chocolate molds of any shapes? Or was this just a one-off request?
Aliya – was customer’s request for tulips, but I do have other molds.