Popcorn Cupcakes and A Movie Cake?

I love movies.

I love rom-coms.  I love dramas.  I love action.

I don’t love sci-fi.

I love popcorn.

It sounds like I’m one of my Kindergartener’s writing a poem!  I think that means I should stop.  I hope you get the idea.

When a friend of mine asked me to make a birthday cake for her daughter’s 12th birthday, she happened to mention that I would need to drop the cake off at a restaurant after the movie.  Movie?  I had JUST the idea!

I used to go to the movies all the time . . . it was one of my favourite pastimes in University.  I love the smell of the butter and the huge lazy boy type chairs that the super theatres now have (not that we have one of those in Cranbrook!)  I just don’t seem to have much time to go to movies these days.  Also, it doesn’t seem like there are many quality movies making their way to the local theatre.

To go with the bad habit of filling up on a big bag of popcorn, I had was always falling asleep once the movie started!

I blame the dark.

My friends developed the “helpful” habit of elbowing me to wake me up.  Thanks.

What else goes with popcorn, and a nap at the movies?  Candy of course!  To go with this cake, I went searching the aisles of the movie theatre . . . Mike n Ike’s, MnM’s,and  chocolate covered caramels.

These popcorn tubs were so fun to make!  I got the idea for Hello Cupcake, and had seen it months ago.  I was so excited to finally get to make this cute addition for a cake.

How to Make Marshmallow Popcorn:

You will need one bag of white mini marshmallows, and one bag of multi coloured flavoured marshmallows.  Separate out all of the yellow marshmallows.  You will be making around 200 kernels of popcorn!   Take one marshmallow and cut it into three pieces.  These become the “petals” of the popcorn.  Put a dot of icing on the bottom a whole marshmallow, and attach the three pieces of cut marshmallow to the whole one.  That’s it!  Super easy, but time consuming.  Make sure you have a good movie to turn on 🙂  Edited to add: Thanks Paul for putting together so many of the popcorn pieces together.  You’re the greatest helper.

The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream, and the cupcakes were vanilla with salted caramel buttercream, and vanilla with vanilla buttercream.

I LOVED making this cake.  It was so much fun.

What’s your favourite movie?