Periodic Table of Cupcakes

My dear friend Karen is celebrating a birthday today. She’s a middle school math and science teacher, and loves all things Mathy and/or Science-y. So, for her birthday this year, I made her a Periodic Table of...Cupcakes!

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. I apologize in advance for the poor quality of these snapshots. I had a hard time fitting the entire table into the frame of the shot, and that last pic was taken late at night (I finished around 11:30pm), so the lighting is terrible.

Also, I'm well aware that the icing letters for each element look as though they were written by a person who is using their non-dominant hand. I had not idea squeezing frosting out of a can could be so challenging. Definitely not one of my strengths!









Hydrogen, Lithium, Sodium, Beryllium, Magnesium.



Silver & Gold



Me last night, in my PJs, posing with the table.



You can read Karen's reaction here.

Final stats:

Total time from start to finish: 4 hours, 52 minutes.
Total cupcakes: 110, plus 7 rejects.
Total cake varieties: 5 (White, Yellow, Butter, Chocolate, Orange)
Butter: 1 ½ lbs.
Powdered Sugar: 7 cups.
Cream cheese: 16 oz.
Oil: 1 ¾ cups
Eggs: 16
Colors of dye: 7
Uttered swear words: Zero.
Times I wanted to swear: 6
Cycles through my iTunes “pick-me-up” playlist: 1 ½