Irish Theme Cupcakes & Tower St. Patrick's Day Cake Decorating How-to Video Tutorial Part 1

There's more than meets the eye with this course!
Ultimate Cake-Off champ Susan Carberry creates wonderfully decorated cupcakes for St. Paddy's Day, but also gives you the step-by-step instructions for making the tower itself!
With her instructions, you can learn how to construct an impressive stand, and this knowledge can work for creating stands of all kinds.
Cupcake towers are *huge* in the cake decorating world and you can learn how to make them with Susan's fun style.
It is recommended that you watch this entire video course beforehand to get some ideas of what you need to make the tower before buying anything.
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To make this project as shown, you'll need the following tools and ingredients:

INGREDIENTS for cupcakes and decorations:
-standard size cupcakes
-white and green fondant
-white, black, orange, green, blue, and yellow buttercream
-sparkle dust
-green sprinkles
TOOLS for cupcakes:
-shamrock cookie cutters in medium and small
-small rainbow cutter (can use ovals)
-pizza cutter
-cake decorating bags
-cookie sheet with parchment paper for drying fondant decorations
-small hat candy mold for leprechaun hats
-round cutter set
-tips: 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 506
-3 sets of green Mardi Gras beads
CUPCAKE TOWER
INGREDIENTS:
-lots of white buttercream
-green, yellow, orange, purple and blue buttercream
-clear green pixie dust
-gold chocolate coins
TOOLS:
-20" wood circle covered in black
-16" wood circle covered in black
-12" cake board circles (3) taped together and covered in black
-8" cake board circles (3) taped together and covered in black
-screws
-electric screwdriver or drill
-ruler
-level
-double sided tape
-glue gun and glue sticks
-2 green plastic pots (pots of gold-approx. 6-7")
-Two 7" cake boards to cover top of pots
-scissors
-cake decorating bags
-wooden rainbow cut out of 3/4" plywood with a jigsaw
-2 braces with screws from hardware store
-large green felt derby
-3 green plastic mugs (same height if possible)
-3 pillars (cut to extend 3/4" over top of mugs)
-PVC pipe cutter
-green hat with long orange pigtails for topper
ALTERNATIVE TOPPER (cake hat with hair):
-One 3" cake Styrofoam dummy or cake
-green, black, gold or yellow, and orange fondant
-clay extruder gun for hair