Giant Cupcake cakes

Last week, I helped my sister with a project. My sister was in charge of an enrichment activity, that was a big relief society birthday party (right Amelia?). She asked that I cook 3 giant cupcake cakes. Some other ladies in the area were making couple as well, and then they were using them as the centerpieces on the table. So the day before she wanted them at her house, I honestly spent the entire day making these cakes (only took 5 cake mixes, 15 eggs, 5 cups of milk, and lots of butter...voila!). Here is the picture of the 3 cakes put together at my sisters house. For the cakes, I used the funfetti, devils food, and a marble cake flavors. (marble is by far my favorite!) and then I mismatched the tops and bottoms to make the cakes more interesting.

Here is my sister Amy working on another project while I decorated the tops of the cakes. She had this clever idea to make a cupcake "liner" by taking colored paper, painting designs on the paper, then folding the paper like fan to give it that cupcake liner look. Here are some before and after pics of the cupcake cakes.

purple cupcake #1, attempted to pipe stars.

blue cupcake #2, piped zig zag lines red (turned kinda rose color) cupcake #3, piped roses/ribbons.

purple cupcake with the paper liner! cute huh!

blue cupcake with the paper liner. red cupcake with paper liner.

Since I was not at the activity, I only heard that it was a success and quite a few showed up!

Great job Aims!