Edible Glitter on a Cupcake Tower: How Much You Need

Podcast: The Monégasque Table · MONÉGASQUE

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

How much edible glitter does a cupcake tower need? Far less than the jar's size suggests — a 100-cupcake tower is one jar. The only serving figure printed on the listing is 0.1 grams, a pinch. Treat one cupcake as one pinch and the arithmetic falls out: a 7 gram jar covers about 70 cupcakes, a 15 gram jar about 150. At the 15 gram jar's $14.99 standard price that is $1.00 a gram, or about 10 cents of shimmer per cupcake — usually less than the paper liner. The per-gram rates flip most people's intuition: the small 7 gram jar is the most expensive gram in the line at about $1.43, while the...