Help With Timeline For Making 100 Cupcakes!!
Decorating By korensmommy Updated 18 Feb 2007 , 1:16am by Sugarbean
Hi,
I will be making 100 cupcakes/mini cupcakes to sell at an elementary school carnival on St. Patrick's Day.
I have 1 oven, 2 regular cupcake pans and 1 mini cupcake pan.
I will be making Buttercream Dream icing and doctored box cake mixes.
Can anyone help me with how long this will take me?
I'm in Boston (think freezing cold!) and can store them in an unheated extra room.
Thanks!
PS - if anyone has any easy St. Patrick's Day cupcakes designs, please let me know. All I can think of is a shamrock!
Does your oven hold both regular cupcake pans at the same time? I just made 400 cupcakes for an event and I only have one oven and one extremelly lovely neighbor who now gets free cakes for life!
well, I feel your pain, I just did 4.5 dozen regular size and 4 dozen mini's for v-day orders at my daughters preschool. I baked one entire day because like you only had one pan each... once baked, I covered with saran wrap and let them sit overnight. I iced the next day and delivered.... I had no freshness issues... in fact I think I baked them on monday night and they were due wednesday so, it was more like 2 days wrapped and everyone raved about their freshness. As for any green ideas... you could do a cupcake cake and write something on the top... or you can ice your cakes using tip 1M (see my v-day cupcakes for this look) in green and then put a luster on them or sprinkles....
My oven can hold all 3 pans at the same time.
400.....now *that's* a lot of cupcakes!!
hm...100 cupcakes! wow sounds like a lot, but is actually very doable. i made over 100 cookies for valentines this past week.
so you'd probably want to spread it out over 3 days.
day 1: bake 3 batches of regular cupcakes (66-72 cupcakes) alternately with 2 batches of mini cupcakes (44-4
this will give you more than enough cupcakes, but better to have more than not enough. so while 1 batch is in the oven, make the batter and fill the pans for the next batch. and alternating will be most efficient. this will take 3-4 hours depending on how quickly you work and the baking time required for your cupcake recipe.
day 2: fill the cupcakes with desired filling and frost the tops
day 3: decorate and package
shamrocks are kind of the symbol of st. partricks day...maybe you could use some of those chocolate gold coins?
good luck with the cupcakes!
I would bake the day before - cupcakes cool pretty fast. To keep them moist I covered them with press and seal/plastic wrap before they cooled. I then iced the next day and delivered them in the afternoon. I took a nap after I delivered. With 100, I bet you could bake in the morning and then ice in the evening the day before your event!
Thanks everyone~~now I know how much time to set aside.
Thanks Dandelion, I wasn't sure how many to make. They said last year they had over 600 people come to their carnival. I have never done this many before so I figured I was safe with around 100. I don't want to have a bunch left over b/c I would just eat them!
For St Patrick's Day, I always do a "Pot of gold/ over the rainbow" theme.
It can work for cookies or cupcakes. Simply ice with blue or green icing (or any color, really!) and pipe on a rainbow. At one end of the rainbow, put a gold coin chocolate or a Rolo candy.
Have fun baking!
I have had a lot of 120 orders of cupcakes, and here is how I organize my self
Let's say my order is due on friday
I bake the whole batch on wend. I always make a little bit more for liner separation issues.
then on thursday I decorate
And deliver on friday,
let me tell you my secret I bought from walmart 5 cupcake holder tupperwares each one holds 24, that keep the freshness for up to a week in cool weather or two or three days in warm weather.
hope the info helps
Adriana
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