Crowned Royal Cupcakes

Let me start off by saying that I had no intention of jumping on the Royal-Wedding-themed-cupcake-bandwagon [I had seen my fair share of horrid "royal" cupcakes all week long in my Google reader]... until right before I got home last night. I was riding the subway with my roommate, the biggest anglophile I know, talking about Royal Wedding viewing parties when the Royal Wedding fever hit me. I decided I didn't want to miss out on the chance to make something fun for this global media event... seeing as I wasn't even born yet when Princess Diana was married and... what if I have to wait another 30 years for a big Royal occasion??

I baked two dozen vanilla cupcakes and used what I had lying around - mainly fondant, colored sugar crystals and sugar pearls - to come up with these cupcake toppers.

I made a dozen fondant toppers and iced the other dozen in tinted icing swirls.

I conveniently had some British themed cupcake toppers lying around that I had bought for my roommate's birthday from TheBlissfulBaker on Etsy. I didn't get to use them for her since I ordered them late but made sure to save her a special one today.

Familiar London icon toppers adorned the buttercream swirls. 

Royal Wedding cupcakes packed and ready to bring as a sweet treat for my coworkers.

My alarm went off at 5:00am and I was unsure whether or not I wanted to get up and watch the wedding or go back to sleep. I turned on the TV to look for a sign. David Beckham appeared on my screen and that was it... I was like "heck yea, I wanna watch this!" I got up, brushed my teeth [for roommate's sake] and began my day with Prince William's arrival at Westminster Abbey.

Roommate treated me to scones, clotted cream, jam, digestive biscuits and tea... I'm such a lucky lady [aka Princess-In-Training]!


updated 6/22/11 - changed size of the vertical pics... it was buggin' me!