Farewell Cupcakes

Here are some cupcakes I made for a farewell morning tea we held at work for a work mate who was leaving. The cupcakes were vanilla with vanilla buttercream. I piped the icing using a 1M tip starting in the middle and working my way out, this makes it look like a rose. By the time I got into town after catching the bus with my cupcakes they were all messed up so I had to re-pipe most of them. Luckily I took lots of photos before!

I wanted my cupcakes to be kind of special so decided to make some fun cupcake toppers to make them stand out. These are super easy to do! I managed to find some pictures of my work mate and cut these into circles. I pasted these onto some scrapbook paper which I cut out using a scallop shaped cutter. I stuck a toothpick to the pictures using blu-tack and inserted these into the cupcakes. This is such a simple way to make plain cupcakes interesting and the star of the party (these ones were!) especially if you can get some funny or embarrassing photos on there! I also wrote Farewell Ryan in a few different languages too (as he knew French and his fiance is Japanese)

Extra icing especially for Ryan who loved buttercream!

If you look closely you can see the photos on the cupcakes.