Cake #27 - Margaret's Wine Theme Bridal Shower - Red Velvet Cup-Cakes
This one was posted briefly as cake #1 before we numbered them and when Meghan was just trying to display each cake without any kind of backstory or explanation on how to recreate this yourself.
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Margaret was getting married--in wine country. Her bridal shower required a wine themed cupcake of course. To do that I decided to use "wine" type glasses and "wine" colored cake. I used a red velvet, baked in the usual cake pans, but cut into smaller pieces/chunks and put into the glass, topping the "cup"cake cake pieces generously with delicious cream cheese frosting and frosted grapes/sprinkles for decoration.
I originally planned to use plastic wine glasses with the long stems,
but they were too small to put in enough cake, and moreover, they were
very "tippy", so I found the short stem ones that turned out just
perfect. They were all assembled in groups on either the pretty grape plates that
Kathleen had on the table, or on the wine and grape leaf metal tray I
had. We used both. The cakes were very easy (and bridal shower-delicate) to eat with a fork right out of the the "glass" and I think the glasses made for a nice "centerpiece" to the table--so did Meghan! :-)
After frosting them, to emphasize the red color I sprinkled some thick reddish frosted sugar sprinkles.
To complete the look, I added frosted red grapes. I frosted them by
wetting them with a little water and then rolling them in granulated
sugar. The sugar adheres to the grape and it all hilighted the wine theme nicely.
