Camouflage cupcakes

For the army themed party I created camouflage cakes where both the sponge and the topping were created in a camouflage design.

The sponge itself was created by splitting a four egg sponge cake mixture into thirds. One third I left plain, the second batch I added two tablespoons of cocoa and the last batch I added some green food colouring.

I then added a scoop of each colour into a cupcake case and baked as normal. This created a nice surprise when people ate the cakes. I've turned the cake upside down to take a picture of it so you can see the three different colours easily. 

They were then topped with camouflage icing made using a mixture of black, brown and green icing rolled out and cut into circles for the top of the cakes. They can be seen below on the bottom row. I topped them with red '18's.

The tent on the cake was made from the same camouflage mixture and topped with the camouflage icing. Here it is 'naked' below along with a couple of the cupcakes.

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Camouflage Army Cakes

My nephew is 18 this week and my sister in law has asked me to make his birthday cake. He's in the army so we thought a military cake theme would be nice.

I've googled a few ideas and think I will try some of these.i hope no one minds me linking to their pictures, I have stated the sources and am definitely not trying to pass off any of these amazing creations as my own (mine will not look as good as these!).

How about making the cupcake itself a camouflage cake? From http://www.my-creativeway.com/2011/06/tutorial-how-to-make-camo-cupcakes.html

These camouflage cupcake toppers were created by  http://www.cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/camouflage-basketball-and-wu-tang-red.html

 These soldier toppers are just the cutest: http://curiouscupcakes.livejournal.com/843390.html

I would love to  be good enough at cake decorating to command the £125 that http://www.thecakestore.co.uk/army-cupcake-tower/ is offering this collection at!

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I think I will make one large cake and cover with camouflage icing, some lettering that I will make from icing run outs and toy soldiers finished off with a black ribbon.