Cupcakes

I've done a bit of playing around with yarn and found a "recipe" I like for cupcakes.



The mini cupcakes are quite small:

and their pattern is in 3 parts:
Because they're so small, you'll only use a small amount of yarn for each. I can't even guess at the amounts! I used an F hook but crochet a bit loosely.
The frosting and "cup" are in worsted weight/kitchen cotton, the brown is in a bulky weight, but shouldn't matter.

Frosting:
Ch 35, sc all, bind off, but leave a long tail for sewing later.
(Update: I realized, I forgot to explain that the frosting is sewn as a coil onto the top of the cupcake. The coils should barely overlap and the frosting will come up a bit off the top of the cupcake. I start on the outside and coil inward.)

Cupcake:
This is a solid item:
--Magic loop. Sc 5 stitches.
Increase by 5 each row:
--2 sc in each stitch around (10)
--sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (15)
--sc, sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (20)
Bind off.

'Paper'/Wrapper:
In order to make the cupcake have an edge that sticks out over the "paper", sc into the inside loop only on the bottom of the cupcake top.
--sc around all (20)
-- decrease by 2 (crochet 2 tog, twice, I did this at stitches 1 and 10) -- (18)
-- sc all around (18)
-- sc all around (18)
-- sl st all around (on the interior, to create the round for the bottom) -- (18)
-- sc all around interior (18)
-- dec (crochet 2 tog) around -- (9)
fill
-- dec around and sew shut. (continue decreasing as necessary to get a small enough opening to sew shut if this is not small enough.)


Larger cupcakes -- they are more or less the same, just on a larger scale! On the other hand, the red yarn I used for the frosting is an unknown stash yarn, I'd guess it to be DK weight.

Frosting:
Ch 60, sc all, bind off, but leave a long tail for sewing later.
The frosting is sewn as a coil onto the top of the cupcake. The coils should barely overlap and the frosting will come up a bit off the top of the cupcake. I start on the outside and coil inward.

Cupcake:
This is a solid item:
--Magic loop. Sc 5 stitches.
Increase by 5 each row:
--2 sc in each stitch around (10)
--sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (15)
--sc, sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (20)
--sc, sc, sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (25)
--sc, sc, sc, sc, 2 sc in next stitch -- 5x (30)
Bind off.

'Paper'/Wrapper:
In order to make the cupcake have an edge that sticks out over the "paper", sc into the inside loop only on the bottom of the cupcake top.
--sc around all (30)
-- decrease by 2 (crochet 2 tog, twice, I did this at stitches 1 and 15) -- (28)
-- sc all around (28)
-- decrease by 2 (crochet 2 tog, twice, I did this at stitches 1 and 14) -- (26)
-- sc all around (26)
-- decrease by 2 (crochet 2 tog, twice, I did this at stitches 1 and 13) -- (24)
-- sl st all around (on the interior, to create the round for the bottom) -- (24)
-- sc all around interior (24)
-- sc, crochet 2 tog around -- (16)
-- dec by half (crochet 2 tog, around) -- (8)
fill

-- dec around and sew shut. (continue decreasing as necessary to get a small enough opening to sew shut if this is not small enough.)