I’ve started working on planning my mother’s birthday party, and I was hunting around for options to adorn my cupcakes and sugar cookies with that were a little more elegant than the lollipop style toppers and had more of a professional polish than my unsteady hands at piping cookies provide. I was thinking sugared flowers for the cupcakes until I saw these edible butterflies from Sugar Robot. Can’t you just see a tower of cupcakes with pretty little butterflies flitting all over?
Pre-made fondant circles are also a neat option for topping cupcakes and cookies. This set of modern flowers came from Eyapapaya, and the black and white damask from Philly Cake Art.
I’m also thinking about going the completely custom route and having special cookie stickers made for the party. You can send in a logo, photo, whatever, and have the image printed to edible rice paper to transfer to the frosting of a sugar cookie or cupcake. The nice cookies in this picture from Ali’s Sweet Treats come completely made, in the bag with the ribbon tied on. Gogocake.com will provide you with printed edible sheets to do the transfer yourself.
