Topiary Centerpiece You Can Make Yourself

Source: thecogentcoach.com via Sally on Pinterest

Looking for a brilliant centerpiece for your children's table or for your candy buffet at your wedding? Or maybe for a bridal shower? How about this topiary made of Dum Dums? Love the colors and just hand out some toothbrushes to everyone on the way out! (kidding!)

They're full of sugar but they sure taste good!

What's your favorite flavor?

Blueberry

Blue Raspberry

Bubble Gum

Butterscotch

Cherry

Cotton Candy

Cream Soda

Dulce de Leche

Fruit Punch

Grape

Mango

Orange

Root beer

Sour Apple

or

Watermelon

Give me butterscotch, cherry and Dulce de Leche anytime! But root beer and cream soda are the other big favorites at my house. Hm mm...decisions, decisions, decisions!

Just check some of my other topiary DIY projects if you can't figure out how to pull this off. It's easy! Possibly the easiest topiary I've ever posted because the Dums Dums already have sticks attached so they're easy to insert into Styrofoam.  Have fun!

Cupcake Topiary Tree

Photograph courtesy of Food Network Magazine/Taken by Tara Donne

Considering using cupcakes in lieu of cake at your wedding? Why not have them do double duty as decorations as well?  This Cupcake Topiary Tree was featured in Food Network Magazine in their May 2010 issue. 

To make your Cupcake Topiary Tree you'll need:

1 Terracotta  pot
Floral Foam
12 inch floral foam ball
12 inch dowel
Brown Paint
Pink Paint
Mini cupcake liners 24
Straight Pins
Toothpicks

Directions:
Fill the terracotta pot with floral foam, and insert a 12 inch dowel or thick stick in foam.  If you're using a dowel you'll need to paint it brown before placing it.  Paint a 12 inch floral foam ball pink and let dry.  This can take an hour, be sure it's all the way dry.  Push the ball down onto the dowel that's already been anchored into the pot.  Using straight pins and cupcake papers to plot your cupcake design, then place real cupcakes in each spot removing the pins and papers used for plotting as you go.  Attach cupcakes using 3 toothpicks poked halfway into the bottom of each cupcake and press them into the ball.