This is the latest masterpiece (of cuteness) by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson (creators of Hello, Cupcake!).  I couldn’t resist picking this up the other day.  With spring around the corner I just might have to find an excuse to make these:

They’re so beautiful they practically leap off the page! 

I think these little guys would be great for kids for Easter:

My favorite is the one of the little guy diving – what a cute duck derriere!

This one isn’t particularly ‘Springy’ per se but it’s one of my favorites so I just have to share:

I mean how irresistable is this guy?

We want to know…have you yourself attempted to make any of these ingenious cupcakes (from this book or the original)?  How did it go?  We’d love to see pics on our facebook page here.

Wanna know what she’s having?  Click here for the big reveal and to see more pics of the party.

One thing you’ll learn about me through this posting is I’m a bit cheap.  Well, ask my sister Joy and she’ll say ‘A BIT??’  Okay, okay – I’m CHEAP!  Like, when I order something online I save the packing paper that comes with it to recycle and use to ship your towers out…like, I pulled out all of the tissue paper from Grace’s gifts to re-use – TISSUE PAPER folks.  Shameless, I know.  But sometimes my ‘thrifty-ness’ just forces me to be a bit creative like with the ‘Happy Birthday Grace’  balloon banner pictured above.  I bought the balloons at the Dollar Store (the kind where everything really truly is $1).  I barely blew them up (by the way, for a quick laugh picture the very pregnant ME blowing these puppies up).  I printed out the letters on  my computer, cut them out and taped them to the balloons. Voila.  Super cute colorful banner for $1.

For ‘favors’ I had to consider that the kids would be ranging in age from 1 – 12 so any ‘toy’ idea was out.  Luckily my recent addiction to blogging exposed me to these Dipped Oreo Cookie Suckers on the fabulous site ‘How Does She’.  They were a HIT and I’m pretty sure the adults were jealous.  The bags were another Dollar Store find (my memory might be off here but I think they came in packs of 3) as were the pinwheels (also packs of 3?).  I filled the bottom of the bags with multi-colored jelly beans and that was that.

For decorations I wanted pom poms which you can buy on Etsy, or I think the craft stores sell kits as well.  Orrrrr, you can buy some tissue paper at (drumroll please) the Dollar Store and make them yourself!  They are time consuming but otherwise fairly simple.  Here’s a great tutorial I found on Casasugar.  The idea for the juice boxes with crazy straws (Dollar Store and Dollar Store!) just came to me and wound up so cute and colorful.

Last, but certainly not least was The Cupcake Tower.  I chose the Turquoise Ribbon, one of our newer selections and definitely one of my favorites.  It was an accident that the pom became the ‘topper’ as I literally set it there for a second to get it out of the way and decided it was too cute to take it off!  I made 4 different kinds of cupcakes (chocolate, gluten-free chocolate, lemon and vanilla) and spread them with various flavors of frosting (chocolate, chocolate peanut-butter, lemon buttercream and vanilla buttercream).  It was a full day of cupcake baking with perhaps one or two meltdowns along the way but let’s face it, I’m very pregnant so it wasn’t torture.  My favoite part was using our new pastry bags to decorate them with, I need a lot more practice than the 100 that I frosted here but they were by far my prettiest cupcakes to date!

Overall – the day made for one happy two year old and I had a blast putting it all together.  Happy Birthday Baby Girl.

Bouncy Ball 1st Birthday Party

The first set of photos is from her adorable son’s 1st birthday party.  Red, blue, green and yellow are the inspiration behind this colorful ‘bouncy ball’ party (photos by Ashley Forrette).  We love the creative liberty she took using vibrant papers to decorate the Tower in order to match her theme.

Clearly, little ‘Trace’ agreed….

Baby Shower in Orange and Blue

The second party so impeccably decorated by Lea was a blue and orange baby shower for a boy. With matching circles across the designs, and color-coordinated balloons, this was one stylish baby shower!

Keep making us envious Lea… and to thank you for your inspiration you’ll receive a ribbon pack of your choice.

For now, check out this Small Cupcake Tower decorated for ‘Hadley’s 1st Birthday’ by her mom, Heather. So Cute! Thanks Heather, and for submitting the photo you’ll get a ribbon pack of your choice for FREE!

***Please note:  The ribbon in this photo is Turquoise/Aqua Stripe which was recently discontinued…may we suggest as an alternative our new solid Turquoise ribbon or my new favorite, turquoise and brown stripes:

This tiny Cupcake Tower with ‘Pitch Black’ ribbon detail looks sophisticated and yet adorable when combined with pink frosted cupcakes.  Neisha from Tempe, AZ says “I absolutely LOVE my Cupcake Tower!!!  I used it for my daughter’s 13th birthday party.  My friends and family really liked it.  I am thinking about ordering the next size up too!”  Congrats to Neisha who receives a ribbon pack of her choice for submitting this photo.  Would you like to do the same?  Submit your Cupcake Tower photo to thecupcaketower@gmail.com.

Check out this adorable Princess Cupcake Tower submitted by Kim from Long Beach, CA .  She definitely made the most of this ‘Tiny’ size tower with the ‘Tickled Pink’ ribbon. Congrats to Kim for winning a ribbon pack of her choice for this photo submission…would you like a chance to do the same?  Submit your Cupcake Tower photo to thecupcaketower@gmail.com.

 Another great option if you’re throwing a princess themed party for your little girl is our new ribbon detail ‘Pink with Rhinestones’. 

Which Ribbon Detail would you pick?  (Pumpkin Orange and Bluebird Pictured)