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05/02/2016 Cooking time: 1 hour 0 min
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Very bright, tender and incredibly tasty cupcakes for a bachelorette party at home will be an excellent dessert option on the festive table.
Cupcake. What is this?
Small cupcakes are known under this name in our country . They can be with or without filling, accompanied by a variety of decorations. Desserts are baked in confectionery paper or foil, in special small forms . The size of the product is calculated “for one bite”, although there are also larger options on sale.
Most standard sweet treats are designed to be sliced: cakes, rolls, large muffins, pies.
Even portioned cakes, donuts, small pies and muffins cannot be eaten at once. To avoid getting dirty, you have to use cutlery. This is interesting!
What are cupcakes?
This delicacy comes from America, where cupcakes were first mentioned in cookbooks at the end of the 18th century. The name can be translated as “cup cake,” that is, small, which would fit in one cup.
Cupcake in a cup
Cupcakes appeared in Russia relatively recently and instantly won the hearts of those with a sweet tooth. They are miniature cupcakes with filling, baked in paper baskets. A characteristic feature of cupcakes is also the decoration. Often, the delicacy is decorated with a lush “hat” of whipped cream, on top of which a cherry or strawberry flaunts. However, there are much more interesting ideas for designing cupcakes for a bachelorette party.
How much do you need?
Calculation of the required number of cupcakes is based on:
- product weight . Typically, cupcakes are baked weighing 50-70 g; products with impregnation and a cream or mastic “cap” can weigh up to 100-120 g;
- number of guests . Order 2-3 cupcakes per person;
- general holiday menu . For a large feast with several types of appetizers, hot and cold dishes, and other desserts, the number of cupcakes can be reduced to 1 per person.
Important : delicate products with butter cream, additives from fresh berries and fruits, and impregnations are not stored for a long time, even in the refrigerator . If you have doubts about whether guests will eat all the “cakes in a cup” they order, you should choose recipes with mastic or sprinkles.
When making calculations, it is also important to take into account the tastes of the guests - if the bride and her friends have a sweet tooth, it is better to order more cupcakes and reduce the number of salty dishes.
Toppers
Topper is another foreign word for a cute decoration for desserts on a skewer. Moreover, they can be either edible or inedible, performing only a decorative function.
You can make toppers yourself, order them from a confectionery shop or other workshop, or purchase ready-made ones from a holiday store.
Most often, the materials for their manufacture are:
- Chocolate;
- Gingerbread with icing;
- Marzipan and sugar mastic;
- Natural flowers;
- Felt and other fabric;
- Paper or cardboard;
- Wood (plywood);
- Plastic or acrylic.
What exactly the toppers will be like at the party depends largely on your imagination. Decorative elements in the form of various “ladies' items”, for example, lips, lipstick, a handbag, a dress or a shoe, look quite appropriate on cupcakes for a bachelorette party.
Cupcakes with “lady things”
Recipe
Cupcakes do not have a basic recipe - they can be prepared according to the traditional recipe for a sponge cake (hot or cold), a capital cupcake, or various options for cake layers (for example, “chiffon” or “Japanese sponge cake”).
The most common ingredients :
- butter – 80 g;
- eggs – 2 large chicken or 6-8 quail;
- flour – 150 g;
- sugar – 100 g;
- milk – 50 ml;
- baking powder – 1 teaspoon;
- a pinch of salt;
- vanilla extract or vanilla sugar.
Important! All products should be at room temperature (20-24 degrees Celsius).
Sequencing:
- beat butter with sugar and vanilla extract;
- eggs are driven in one at a time;
- milk is added;
- Flour is gradually poured in. Baking powder and salt are first mixed into it.
The dough should be relatively liquid, like thick sour cream.
For baking, use paper tartlets placed in the recesses of a muffin tin . The tartlets should be filled 2/3 full.
If you place paper cups on a flat baking sheet, the dough, as it rises, can deform the products and the cupcakes will begin to spread. Baking temperature – 200-220 degrees. The top should be browned.
After baking, slightly cooled cupcakes are removed from the mold with two skewers or forks, being careful not to damage the paper tartlets.
Useful information : since the dessert is served in paper molds, it is better to immediately choose their design taking into account the theme of the holiday.
Lettering on cupcakes with jokes
The design of cupcakes made in the form of inscriptions will always be creative and original, because you can write absolutely anything.
Most often, the words and phrases on each cupcake are different, but at the same time echo each other, uniting into one common theme, a holistic composition. Below are several options that you can take as a basis.
- Each cupcake can have the name of a friend attending the bachelorette party written on it;
- Typical female phrases “Oh, that’s it!”, “All women are like women, and I’m a goddess”, “On Louboutins” and the like will definitely lift your spirits;
- The design of the cupcakes may include the date of the bachelorette party and/or wedding;
- Phrases “I changed my mind”, “Don’t wait home”, “The groom won’t find out”, “Offer a striptease!” at a bachelorette party they are quite appropriate, but it is recommended that they be implemented only by unmarried bridesmaids;
- You can also use the bride's surname, both present and future. For example, write “Goodbye, (maiden name)!” on one cupcake, and “Hello, (last name after marriage)” on the other;
- Take one short phrase, for example, “Getting married soon!” and distribute the letters from it, one for each cupcake.
Photos of cupcakes at a bachelorette party with jokes: Goodbye, Ulanova. Hello Vibert.
How to decorate cupcakes yourself?
If you know how and love to cook, then you can easily bake cupcakes yourself. Simply knead the biscuit dough according to a proven recipe (it doesn’t matter which one, plain white or chocolate), add the filling based on your own taste, and then distribute it into paper molds and send it to the oven.
When the cupcakes are ready, they definitely need to be decorated. This does not require any special talents, culinary or design education. Prepare any cream (you can even buy it at the store) and squeeze it onto each cupcake using a pastry syringe with nozzles. You can stop at this stage, but the dessert will look even more festive and attractive if you sprinkle it with your choice:
- Crushed nuts;
- Grated chocolate;
- Multi-colored coconut flakes;
- Almond petals;
- Tiny marshmallows;
- Dragee M&Ms or monpensier.
As an alternative, you can consider chocolate icing, which is also easy to make at home.
Other ideas
- Intimate decoration . We won’t go into details, let’s just say that the topic of sex at hen parties is by no means uncommon. Among those present, “everyone is our own,” so put your shyness aside.
- Photo printing . Surely, over the years of dating, the girlfriends have accumulated many bright moments together that were captured in photographs. This design will look very unusual and create a nostalgic atmosphere.
- Cupcake shoe. You can make a creative and fashionable dessert using a cupcake (front part), a waffle stick (stiletto heel) and a cracker (the rest), decorating the composition at your discretion.
Cupcake shoes
Cupcake shoes for a bachelorette party
Which cake is better to order for a bachelorette party?
I think it will be easier for you to choose something specific if I start by listing those cakes that are usually ordered for a bachelorette party.
- surprise cake;
- intimate content;
- bed;
- stroller or children's toy;
- with a man's torso;
- handbag;
- hobby cake;
- Wedding Dress;
- cupcakes.
Photo of an example cake
Stripper Cake
This cake will not only be a sweet addition to the bachelorette party, but also the culmination of the entire party. The male striptease will not leave any girlfriend indifferent, and there will be enough sweet treats for everyone.
Depending on the bachelorette party program, the cake may appear at the beginning or end of the festive evening. Not only a stripper, but also a celebrity double or even the hero of the occasion can emerge from the cake.
The cake doesn't have to be real. A fake cake will make no less impression on your guests. This cake can be decorated with festive lights, crackers or fireworks. And dessert can be served to guests separately.
Intimate cake
Such a cake will amuse the guests, give the bachelorette party a relaxed atmosphere, will dispose the girls to have fun and jokes, and reminisce about the secluded moments of life.
Ideas for such a cake can be very diverse.
I will offer several options:
- in the form of a male organ;
- with a young couple in a fit of passion;
- with the image of a naked groom;
- BDSM themes.
Cake in the form of a bed
A popular theme remains a bed with a loving couple on it. Variations can be very diverse:
- intimate scene;
- quarrel scene;
- young people in bed with a child - a hint of the imminent appearance of the fruit of love;
- lovers sleeping in an embrace.
Stroller cake
Nowadays it often happens that pregnancy becomes the impetus for such an important decision to link destinies.
You can play with this theme when choosing. It can be not only a cake in the shape of a baby stroller, but also a cake in the shape of children’s toys, booties, and baby vests.
This cake can be made in the shape of a baby in cabbage leaves or decorated with the image of a stork.
Cake - male torso
Another popular cake idea for a bachelorette party is a sweet in the form of a naked male torso. Surely all your friends will want to try a piece of such a delicacy. The cake can be decorated thematically in accordance with the professional activities of the groom or with his interests and passions:
- doctor - torso with a stethoscope;
- policeman with handcuffs;
- office worker - torso with tie;
- fireman with fire hose.
Cake bag
Whatever you find in a lady’s handbag... A handbag cake can be an excellent option for a bachelorette party cake. All party participants will be curious to know what is hidden in the purse?
This cake looks very impressive. You can also make a dietary version by filling your bag with berries.
Hobby cake
The cake can be made in the form of an object that the bride uses for her hobby. For example, balls for knitting or embroidery hoops.
Not all modern girls are interested in such traditional types of creativity. But the cake can also be made in the shape of a dumbbell if the bride is involved in sports or, for example, a parachute or skis can be depicted on it.
Wedding dress cake
Girls from early childhood dream of a beautiful wedding dress. The bride will be pleasantly surprised by a beautiful cake in the shape of the bride's dress.
This dessert looks very impressive and is not very difficult to make. Baked cakes with decreasing diameter are stacked one on top of the other, and then the entire structure is coated with cream or mastic and decorated in the form of a wedding dress.
Cupcakes for a bachelorette party
You don't have to bake one big cake. It can be successfully replaced by cupcakes - small cakes.
This type of dessert for a party will allow you to diversify the theme of the dessert design. After all, a small cake is like a cake in miniature.
It can be made in accordance with all the dessert design ideas already listed. This dessert is more convenient to use, for example, if a bachelorette party is held outdoors.
Mastic cakes
You don’t have to order a bridal shower cake from a baking professional. You can try to make it yourself. Mastic options are very popular now. This is a beautiful plastic material for decorating a cake.
The easiest way to make mastic at home is from melted chewy marshmallows. This mastic does not harden and tastes good. It is easy to sculpt various figures from it. You can color the mastic yourself with food coloring. You can immediately buy chewing marshmallows in different colors.
You can replace the mastic with sugar icing.
Stylized bachelorette party
Often hen parties are organized in a specific style, for example, gangster, glamorous, pajama or based on a famous film. In this case, everything must correspond to the chosen theme, and cupcakes are no exception.
Sometimes you can find ready-made sets with cupcakes on sale, but for a stylized party it is rarely possible to choose a truly successful and harmonious option.
It’s better to think over the dessert design in advance with your friends and place an individual order. Professional confectioners will make all your fantasies and ideas come true if you describe them in as much detail as possible
Final tips
From my own experience, I know that a good cake maker is not easy to find. Make inquiries in advance and do not delay with your order. Many masters have a schedule planned several months in advance. It may turn out that your cake simply will not be ready by the required time.
To implement your ideas, you may need various materials, the preparation of which also takes time.
If you decide to bake a cake yourself, but have never done it yourself, I recommend starting with a trial model. Your family will be happy to enjoy your first creation. And the second cake will probably turn out more successful and beautiful. There can never be too many cakes!
