Cupcake Bouquet

Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Desserts, Miramax Books, 2003.

Show: Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra LeeEpisode: Cookies, Cakes and Cupcakes

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (11)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
45 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
1 bouquet with 48 mini-cupcakes

Times:

Prep: 25 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 45 min
Total:: 1 hr 10 min

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Ingredients

Butter, for greasing bowl
1 (18.25-ounce) box golden yellow cake mix
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 (16 ounce) containers vanilla frosting
1/2 cup powdered sugar
48 store-bought mini-cupcakes or mini-muffins, paper liners removed
48 toothpicks

Special Equipment:

Pastry bag
Star tip

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Butter and flour an 8-inch-diameter stainless steel bowl. Combine cake mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl. Beat with a hand mixer or by hand for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Transfer batter to prepared buttered bowl. Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool cake in bowl on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Invert cake onto cooling rack and remove bowl. Cool cake completely. Spread 1 can of frosting over rounded side of cake. Mix remaining can of frosting with powdered sugar in large bowl and transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Frost or pipe a rosette atop each cupcake. Place a toothpick into the bottom of each cupcake; press toothpick into cake dome, forming a bouquet. Place cake on stand.

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Anonymous 03-01-2007
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Wonderful Idea
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made this cake for a baby shower. Turned out perfect and looked like the photo online. I didn't use store bought... mini-cupcakes. I made my own. I didn't bake the cupcakes in the liners. This made the cake look better.Read more
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ronnie manhattan, NY 04-07-2006
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the finished product looked silly
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

tasted even worse
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Anonymous 04-05-2006
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cupcakes
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I did a test run of these for Easter, using yellow, pink and blue flavored frosting. No-one in my family liked them for some... reason, maybe it was the way they tasted or something. Not a keeper.Read more
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Sharon Rochester, NY 04-05-2006
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cupcake bouquet
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

This was a big hit with everyone at Christmas time~~I did the frosting in red, green, and white with a christmas theme and it... was GREAT!!Read more
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Anonymous 03-27-2006
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Needed more frosting
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Cupcakes were very dry.
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Anonymous 01-12-2006
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Launching the space shuttle was easier than making this recipe
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Thought this was supposd to be SEMIHOMEMADE?