Faking Fancy Cupcake Wedding Centrepieces #4

If you're looking for a more real looking flower centrepiece that can double as dessert, this is the perfect arrangement for you.  You can make this as fancy and elaborate as you like with leaves, butterflies and other accents, but here's the basic gist of how you create a cupcake bouquet centrepiece.

For the cupcakes, if you want to have a real looking bouquet of flowers, you'll need to have them iced to look like flowers.  Feel free to mix up the sizes of your cupcake for visual interest.

To create the bouquet you'll need:

• low rise glass cylinder vase
• half ball Styrofoam circle (that fits snug in the base of your vase)
• wooden dowels (cut down so that when you stick it in the Styrofoam an inch or so is sticking out)
• tissue paper (you can use any colour, but white is the most subtle)

Step 1: Bake, cool and ice your cupcakes.

Step 2: Cover your Styrofoam half ball with the tissue paper and place in the vase flat side down.

Step 3: Push a wooden dowel in the tissue paper wrapped half ball of Styrofoam.  Push in one dowel at a time and push a cupcake on top of the piece of dowel sticking out.  Continue sticking in dowels and cupcakes until you have covered the entire surface to your satisfaction. I start at the edge of the vase and work my way around.

Step 4: Next, add in your accents to dress it up like the leaves and butterflies in the bouquet shown above.