project!

I have been pondering about this project for a couple years now: how to send a decorated cupcake in the mail. Initially, I was thinking: "I'll just send the cupcake and frosting separately." But then I decided that wasn't as special. One blogger got it down, but that required more work and worry than I wanted.

Other bloggers would bake the cupcakes, cut them up, and put them in the glass jars and layer the frosting. I preferred the idea of baking the cakes in the jar and frosting them as I would a normal cupcake. I couldn't find the jar size I was initially thinking of, but these worked just as well for my first trial.

A friend of the hubs and mine recently bought a new place (Hi Ben!). Now he's been on the search for quite some time. And finally, he found his perfect "sweet home", and I vowed to myself that he would get the first mailed cupcake jars. What better way is there to celebrate your new home?

It took me a while to actually get these baked up and shipped out. I gave him two frosting options; his choice: clearly Oreo. Naturally, I had to dress up the jars, so I took my cue from canners -- grabbed some pretty fabric that I had on hand and some matching ribbon and finished off the jars. I shipped the cupcake jars from frozen and two days later, they were received as a success! I contemplated overnighting them, but again, it was a trial. If they arrived bad, I was surely going to replace them :) and of course, re-think my strategy.

Ben was kind enough to post a couple of photos for me, and aside from the flattened frosting, they were perfect! He was excited for the package waiting for him when he got home, and he told me they were wonderful. I love me some satisfied customers!