~ Tutorial ~ How to make Groovy Tye-Dye Cupcakes Decorating Tutorial

As seen on Valeria's 6th 'Groovy Neon Doodle Party'

I made these for Valeria's 6th B-day Party a couple of weeks ago.  The theme of the party was inspired by the 'Neon Doodle' Party supplies collection from Birthday Express.  

 To get the Tye-Dye effect I just tinted buttercream icing in 4 different colors. 

I filled my piping bag by scooping in spoons of all different colors until full and then I piped on cupcakes. 

To make Buttercream icing to frost 24 cupcakes you'll need:

8 cups (1 kilo ) of icing sugar

 (2 sticks or 250ml) of butter, softened

2/3 cup (150ml) of milk

2 teaspoons (10 ml) of vanilla extract

In a bowl beat butter until fluffy. {In low speed- so sugar doesn't blow everywhere} Beat in sugar alternately with milk, making 3 additions of sugar and 2 of milk. Beat in vanilla extract.

Now divide Buttercream icing in 4 batches and color with gel food color.  {Color carefully, just a little big goes a long way - 1/8 of a teaspoon or less will do}

I used a cake mix for my cupcakes and made my own buttercream with the recipe above.

I put together the picture sequence below to show anyone who feels intimidated to use a piping bag that is not something difficult to do and you don't need to be a

baker to do this. 

  I wanted to show you how to put together a piping bag.  You need the bag, the metal tip {I used a Wilton 1M} and a large size Coupler {which is the white pieces and consist of 2 parts a ring and a base}

1. Remove ring from coupler base. Insert coupler base into the bag and push it as far as it goes.

2. Mark with your scissors the spot where you are going to cut. Just a little bit under the first screw thread.

3. Push coupler base back up just so you can cut and push down again.

4. Put metal tip on the outside and secure with coupler ring.

5. That's it. I fold my piping bag over a glass, I just find it easier to fill that way. Now just fill your piping bag with the buttercream icing.  I just filled with a little bit of each color and piped on cupcakes. 

6. To make the swirls start at the outer edge of the cupcake, work inward to the middle and up.

7. Decorate using our 'Groovy Neon Doodle' Printable Cupcake toppers.

You can purchase all the supplies at Michaels, Walmart, Bulk Barn or any other baking supplies store. 

I hope you enjoy my tutorial and if you haven't tried before, try it out, I promise you piping is so much fun!

~ Birthday Party ~ 70's Disco Fun! The grooviest event of the Year.

It was my daughter's birthday a couple of weeks ago, and we celebrated with a disco themed party.  She had been planning her party since we finished celebrating her birthday last year.  She loves disco balls and dancing, this theme was perfect for her, but intead of celebrating the 70's, we were celebrating her 7's.

Planning all the details for this party was so much fun, I love this theme.
She wanted this party to be a girls only event, Julianna's Sunday Night Disco Fever!

 We designed the Invitation to appear like a ticket to enter a night club. It had a detachable VIP pass to be given at the door to the security guy {daddy dressed up all in black with a funny wig} I will show you the pictures but I don't think "mi amor" will approve :) He actually had double duty that day, he also had a special presentation as DJ daddy. 

{Not exactly from the 70's but she insisted on wearing this rock star outfit}

  Balloon column { My mom's latest design} 

 My mom travelled to Canada to surprise my daughter on her birthday and to help with all the decor. The party craze runs in my family.  My mom did the most amazing parties for me and I just want to do the same for my daughters. 

Lots of balloons, disco balls, Records, Musical notes and dangling stars were decorating the room. 

THE CAKE

 My daughter kept telling me for her cake she wanted 7 tiers, her reasoning is that since she was going to be 7 she had to have 7 cakes... I think she is watching too much of the Cake Boss. I got her 5 tiers between cupcakes and cake, I was kind of close. 

This was my second cake and I LOVE how it turned out. I got inspired by a design I saw on the Carlo's bakery website { didn't see my first cake...you can see it here}  I worked so hard on it, making all the little fondant decorations. I stayed up until 5 am the day before the party as the first time the fondant on the cake kept cracking but I kept trying until it finally worked.  It was a lot of work but it was all worth it, as my daughter loved it!

I am actually thinking of taking some serious cake decorating classes at the Bonnie Gordon School here in Toronto.. In fact I already made my 3rd cake for my friend's son birthday last week {pics coming soon}

My daughter loved her rainbow cake and my friends were asking me how I did it. Well It was very easy, just time consuming. I separated the batter in different containers and added food colorant to each, but as I only have one pan of this size, I had to bake and wait 6 times to get all the layers, and wash and grease and flour the same pan 6 times... My husband kept telling me I was crazy ..but I didn't care :)  so my recommendation is if you attempt to do all these layers at least have two of the same size pan.

To coordinate with the party theme, the favors were tie-dye sun visors, peace sign hair ties and "Love" sparkling girls make up.

I made coordinated water bottle labels.  All the disco party printable collection {Invitations, water bottle labels, cupcake toppers and tags} will be available soon at my Etsy shop.

All the girls got their make-up and hair done!

 

We all had so much fun!

 

 

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