The comments below the article are pretty telling. Below I copy and pasted a comment that made me laugh out loud.
"$4 to $5 a cupcake ? $60 a doz.? If you told someone what flavors you liked, I bet...
I set my ovens on 400 degrees...when they're preheated I put the cupcakes in, leave them in for 3 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350 and allow them to bake until done.
this usually creates a really nice dome.
I LOVE sheet cakes...same cost per serving but half the work of tiered cakes. Plus I really love corrie76 and all of her sheet cake designs. It's a bigger area to work and design.
Plastic dowels? Like the cheap Wilton dowels? Honestly, don't bother "renting" those...Just figure them into the final price of your tiered cakes. I've never known any baker to ask for those back.
I would just make them dipped in chocolate (white and dark) and decorate them the way truffles are decorated, like do white chocolate drizzles on the dark chocolate ones and dark chocolate drizzles on the white chocolate ones. Nothing...
Cupcakes are my "specialty"...$32-$36 per dozen...if can be more if there is extensive decoration.
If they order 12 dozen of more i give a 10% discount.
I love these cakes, they're delicious. I love when they have fruit between the layers.
I would probably give each layer a pretty good brushing with a simple syrup, to help keep it moist.
My mint chocolate chip cupcake is a dark chocolate cake, with a mint chocolate chip buttercream...The buttercream has mint flavoring, and I top it with mini chocolate chips. Oh and I tint my buttercream mint green.
