- I used a cabbage instead of polystyrene to arrange the cupcakes on. It is bio-degradable and you don't get little white balls everywhere! Try to use a savoy cabbage. I used a white cabbage and it is not as symmetrical and much harder. The upside is of course that you can use any leaves that you have to take off to make some coleslaw. The downside is that it is quite tough to push the toothpicks into.
- I bought fancy green cupcake forms. That was a mistake. It was extremely difficult to make holes with the toothpick. I had to make the holes before I iced the cakes. This meant that I could not chose which way to orient the cakes when doing the arrangement. Moral: use the cheap ones that stick to the cake. Note that another problem I had was that the cake separated from the form. This has never happened to me before but it is really important that it does not happen when making a bouquet.
- Don't use a light fluffy cupcake. The heavy butter cream will pull it down. Use a solid cup cake. Maybe a pound cake would work.
- Two toned flowers look way better than a single colour.
- Make some extra flowers in case you drop some! And check how many cupcakes you need before hand.
- Glue gun the ribbon onto the flower pot.
Here are the tutorials I used:
