4-Layer Cake: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Cupcake, Blue Cupcake

This past weekend, I had my first big cupcake order: 100 Dr. Seuss themed cupcakes for Sam Petersen's baby shower. Having never made such an abundance of cupcakes, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. But let me tell you what I learned.

20 Guidelines for baking lots of cupcakes in one night

1. Have your recipes decided a week ahead of time. No changing your mind. Ever.
2. Buy ingredients prior to the day of making the cupcakes. You don't need the added stress of WalMart on this day.
3. When buying ingredients, purchase a bottle of wine. This is a must.
4. Make no plans on this day. Make sure you have 6 hours set aside, and nowhere you need to be at a certain time.
5. Charge your iPad, Kindle Fire, or computer the night before. You will need this for either Netflix or Pandora while you are baking.
6. Don't underestimate. Make sure you have plenty of ingredients, too much is not a bad thing. (Running out to the grocery store while my mixer was going and a batch was in the oven was not ideal.)
7. Don't assume you have a certain color of cupcake liners.
8. Learn to add and multiply. Again, extremely important. If you have 12 cupcakes in one pan, and one batch makes 24 cupcakes, how many times do you need to multiply the recipe? I still don't know, and I have to confess that I somehow ended up with only 99 cupcakes.
9. Take your butter out of the fridge a couple hours ahead of time.
10. Put your wine in the fridge a couple hours ahead of time.
11. Call a friend or parent to sit and have a drink of said wine while you bake. It is likely that they will either help you or they will get drunk and entertain you. Either way, you're not giving up social time to bake. And it's fun.
12. Order a pizza one hour in. You will be happy you did so.
13. Don't let the dog get too much of the powdered sugar that falls on the floor.
14. Pour yourself a glass of wine an hour after the pizza is finished. This will help you to the home stretch.
15. MAKE TOO MUCH FROSTING. Running out with four cupcakes to go is enough reason for another glass of wine.
16. Clean up as you go. Duh.
17. Don't get frustrated with yourself. That's why you have the wine.
18. Move gracefully with a finished cupcake.
19. Don't bake barefoot for 6 hours. Your feet will be pissed in the morning.
20. Once all boxes are sealed with perfect cupcakes, clean everything. Finish your wine. And if you didn't make yourself an extra cupcake because you still can't multiply, fix yourself a bowl of ice cream. You deserve your share of sugar, too.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

While baking 100 cupcakes sounds like a stressful challenge, it was the most enjoyable part of my week. I got to play with sugar, use my creative side, and catch up on The Office. At the same time, I got my mom drunk. Luckily, she finished making the Thing 1 and Thing 2 circles before the wine kicked in too much.

The cupcakes, I'm glad to say, were quite a hit. But the Seuss shower in general was the coolest baby shower I've ever been to. The Sheedy's were so creative. I was happy to be a part of it.

What are some other creative baby shower themes you have seen? Did they have themed cupcakes to? Tell me all about it!