Everyone Needs a Little Cupcake Surprise

One of my employees recently got engaged, and is leaving the office for a few months to prepare for her wedding. I absolutely adore this person, and wanted to make a cute treat for her and the rest of my employees, as a going away surprise. I am not one to spend a bunch of time in the kitchen, so I knew whatever I chose would need to be pretty quick and easy. I did quite a bit of searching on Pinterest to get some inspiration and decided to go with wedding color cupcakes.

Her wedding colors are Yellow and Black (so cute), so those were obviously the colors I went with. I went to Walmart to get my cupcake essentials: cake mix, frosting, sprinkles, Rolos and decorating frosting. Are you wondering what are the Rolos are for? No they weren't a snack for me while I made the cupcakes. Although, I did contemplate that idea several times while making the cupcakes. I saw on Pinterest that you can put Rolos into your cupcakes before baking, to add an extra little surprise. 

I found that the cake portion of this process to be very easy, it wasn't until it came to the frosting part that I started second guessing my decision to make these cupcakes. I know it seems really easy, and it probably is for most, but I am not one of those fortunate people. Just then one of my friends came to the rescue. She brought over some of the most amazing cake decorating tools I have ever seen. I didn't even know that these tools existed outside of the Food Networks: Cupcake Wars. The next thing I know, I was piping frosting like Betty Crocker (well kinda).

My friend tells me she took a cake decorating class through Hobby Lobby, and that all of these awesome supplies were included. I never imagined that Hobby Lobby could be more amazing, but I was wrong. I of course have to take this course now. Turns out there is a class starting April 1st, so hopefully I can get in to it, because I have a feeling with a little training, I could become the Picasso of cake decorating. 

Now back to my cupcakes. Once I finished piping my yellow frosting I moved onto the final decorations. I originally wanted to do some type of wedding design, but since those all seemed really difficult, I reverted to a design that I have been drawing since kindergarten, flowers. Once the flowers and sprinkles were added my masterpiece was complete. My employee was really surprised and she loved her special treat. The rest of my team thought the cupcakes were pretty good too. So, to summarize my many thoughts above: make cupcakes for a fun treat, love Hobby Lobby even more, and look for me on Cupcake Wars 2014 (just kidding on that last one).