my friend is throwing a birthday party in 2wks and she asked me to make some cupcakes but her theme is "blast from the Past" so which its from the 60s-90s which i have no idea how to make cupcakes in that kind theme....i need everyone creativities and expertise on this....pls helps...
thanx

linda2006, it sounds like a theme from the show "Cupcake Wars". Lol!

Here are some ideas that crossed my tired mind...
~ Psychedelic swirls and flower power daisies for the 60's
~ Little cut out fondant signs that say a variety of words from across all the years like Groovy, Far Out, Dig it?, Rad!, Awesome!, Spiffy.
~ If you want to do more sugar work, what about gumpaste or fondant car phones from the '80's! You know,the white ones that were bigger than a brick! Lol!

Too bad you couldn't make a cupcake with giant shoulder pads!

Ok, I'm enjoying this walk down memory lane waaaay too much! Time to hit the hay!

Have fun with this order!!

Sounds like lots of fun. How about flowers (for flower power), peace signs would be good, and how about tie dye cupcakes (courtesy of familyfun.go.com) -

Instructions
Frost the cupcakes with white icing. Squirt a series of concentric circles of different-colored gel icing on each cupcake.

To create the tie-dye effect, draw a toothpick through the gel, moving from the center outward like a spiderweb.

Just having done a candy theme last week...what about retro candy????

To me thinking about the 80's when I was a kid, it was all bright. Bright splatters on black or white. Curly ribbon hair things, do some bright gum paste or fondant curls across some. I think a combination of everyone's ideas would make for a really fun looking display. Oooh, paisleys! and smiley faces! Looking I see a lot that has to do with pac man and rubics cubes for the 80's.

Here's some ideas I found.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frostcupcakefactory/5354410105/

HTH

Little records would look good on top of cupcakes too

wow...seriously you guys are amazing...i for some reason would never thought of all those ideas...I like all the ideas on here and i am not an expert in the cake design but i will try the flower power daisies, cutout fondant sign dat say variety of words like groovy, far out and ect, peace sign and tie dye and whatever else i can do

BAKINGHAT- thnx for the flickr site...i like the ideas on there aswell...thank you

Thanx everyone i will post up the pics for everyone to see....thank you

thnx everyone for yours help on the ideas..finally I have a chance to post the pics up for you guys to see...

thank you!!!!!

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