For the second year, Secret Marmalade was requested to bake cupcakes for one of the best Oscar parties in Los Angeles. It isn’t an “official” Oscar party, but trust us, this is one party you want to be on the list for.
It’s also an event we look forward to as the gracious host allows us to flex our creativity and play with designs and flavors. Last year, we brought three different flavors of cupcakes. Vanilla cupcakes wrapped in a red liner and topped with a gold star, Red velvet cupcakes topped with cream cheese icing for 127 Hours, and chocolate cupcakes topped with vanilla icing and a hand-piped dark chocolate swan for The Black Swan.
This year, we had a little more fun with the flavors and designs. It’s hard to do too much design work on mini cupcakes, but we were happy with the results. So without further adieu, here were this year’s four cupcakes:
“Drive”
A cherry-infused cupcake with vanilla frosting topped with a stenciled gold scorpion from the Driver’s iconic jacket. (We selected cherry to pay homage to the Eighties.)
“The Artist”
A double vanilla cupcake topped with rich vanilla frosting and a fondant clapboard.
“Moneyball”
A chocolate cupcake topped with vanilla frosting and a dark chocolate money sign.
“Midnight in Paris”
A French-inspired cupcake with a lavender base and lemon frosting.
For the record, though Drive was not nominated for Best Picture, we firmly believe it should have been. Or, at the very least, Thomas Newton Siegel should have been nominated for Best Cinematography.