Engagement Cake

I love making cakes. There is something so special about the reaction people have when they see a cake I've made that makes me want to make a cake for every occasion! I've been too busy with work and school to actually do so, but now that I am working a little bit less, I hope to decorate a lot more. This one I love so much. I was so excited how great it looked and how well it held up (it was my first 2 tiered cake). I know why three tiers for an engagement cake? Go big or go home right? ;)

Cupcakes with a surprise inside!

Cupcakes with Cadbury eggs inside!

I saw a photo of this posted on Facebook and knew I had to try it! The recipe I saw used regular sized cupcakes with the large Cadbury eggs. I decided to make mini cupcakes instead with the mini Cadbury eggs to save money.

This is what you'll need.

• 1 Chocolate Duncan Hines Cake Mix (and the ingredients on the box for that)
• 2 packs of the mini Cadbury Eggs,
• Frosting! I used Ducan Hine's frosting Creations for the white frosting. 
• The pink frosting was actually royal icing and the recipe can be found here!
• Wilton's icing bags!
• Wilton's Lemon Yellow Icing Color, and Pink Rose Icing Color
• Tips from Wilton = 1M (yellow cupcakes),  2D (white cupcakes), and I believe the last one was tip 125 (pink cupcakes.
• Cupcake pan (I made mini and regular sized cupcakes)
• Cupcake liners - I purchased mine from thebakersconfections
• Pearl like sprinkles. I purchased mine at Ross.

All you need to do is make the mix like it is instructed on the box. Fill the cupcake liners 1/2-3/4 full. Push a mini Cadbury egg into the center. Bake as instructed on the box. I believe the mini ones were baked for about 12 minutes.

Once it's cooling start make the royal icing. Dye with Wilton's icing colors. I chose easter colors! Put a tip in the bag. Then decorate!  ( I used royal icing, because my assistant (aka mom) made that instead of buttercream. The royal icing, despite my hesitations, came out great. 

It was soooo good, and it received a lot of compliments. 

How to video on how I did the frosting!