Not sure if this is the right forum to post this question, so please be kind.

I recently received an order to make 500 cupcakes for a fundraiser. I was wondering how much time I should give myself to make and decorate vanialla/choc with BC (just simple piping on them). Also I plan to make cupcake towersto display them,any suggestions on the maxamount of cupcakes to put on a display (they will be replensished through the night)

Obviously you need to make your BC a few days in advance.

How many cupcakes can you bake @ a time? Do you only have 1 oven w/ 2 racks? If so you can bake them 8 dozen @ a time if you have enough cupcake pans. That's just over 5 baking cycles.

Decorating them should take about 5 seconds per cupcake if it's just a simple swirl. That's 2,500 second=42 minutes. If I did my math correct. Allow for some break time.

Good luck!

You can bake cupcakes ahead of time and freeze them.

Make sure they have thawed before you decorate them.

Goodluck

I did a wedding of 400 cupcakes. What I did was make all my buttercream early in the week and bake the day before they were due. I baked all day Thurs and iced Thurs. night. The hardest thing was storing all of them and transporting them! I ended up transporting them in large under the bed plastic bins. That worked well. I also did a simple syrup on all of them so they stayed moist because cupcakes tend to dry out much faster than cakes. I would do 75 at a time and stay close!
Good luck!
Tracy

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