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Here’s the deal gals…with fondant and molding chocolate…you can create anything! It feels very much like playing with clay. Just give it a try. The hardest part is not touching it too much so it becomes too warm. Not all of these cupcakes require fondant. But still give it a shot!
Puppy / Dog Cupcakes:
Baby Shower Cupcakes: (lifesavers and fondant) or use real pacifiers!
Sunflower Cupcakes”
Roll frosted cupcakes in a chocolaty cereal (leave a little space around the edge of the cupcake for the petals), pipe on some petals with a star tip and then very carefully decorate a red M&M to look like a lady bug. To make clean-up easier I attach my decorating tip to the corner of a ziploc bag. For the ladybug I cut the tiniest tip off the corner of the bag. I used a little melted chocolate almond bark for the ladybug details, but frosting would work also.
Thomas the Train cupcakes:
Sesame Street Cupcakes
St. Patricks Days Cupcakes (fondant)
Bunny Cupcakes
Decorations: Fondant for the ears. I used some bunny cookie cutters to shape the fondant the night before. I cut off the bunny face (see pic below) to make it easier to stick the ears into the cupcakes. Then I left them out on the counter to dry out so they would stand up straight. For the curved ears, I placed in the bottom of a shallow bowl so they would form to that shape while they dried. You could even lay them over a glass, or something round like that. Also, I needed something for the whiskers, so I came across these Japanese somen noodles that worked out pretty good. And then, just m&ms and different sprinkles for the faces. Bunny Fun!
Doll Cupcakes:
Jewels and Girly Things
Great use of colors
Panda Cupcakes-
Mario Cupcakes-
Chanel Cupcakes-
Rainbow Cupcakes- The coolest!
For Rainbow Cupcakes: Divide the batter into 6 bowls. Color your batter with food coloring (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet). I used Americolor colors (Michaels) because they are more concentrated than the typical grocery store variety and the colors are intense without using a lot of it. For each bowl of color I only used about a nickel size amount of dye. If I had used liquid food dye, I would have had to use the entire bottle to get the colors that rich looking and it would have thinned the batter out too much. Each bottle was $1.80, but you only need the 3 primary colors to make the rainbow.
Spoon or pipe your batter in thin layers into the muffin cups, being careful not to mix the colors. I put my batter into Ziploc bags then I snipped the end of bag. When I was done, I just threw away the bag. No cleaning of pastry bags!
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Bake at 375 degrees for 18-20 minutes for regular cupcakes and about 15 minutes for mini cupcakes.
Reindeer Cupcakes-
Cherry Pie Cupcakes-
- Cherry Pie Filling (canned)
- Cupcake Mix (and ingredients on box)
- icing
- flat tip
Directions:
Bake the cupcakes according to the box or your own recipe. Let them cool. Scoop out the middle with a melon baller or spoon (be sure to take the tin off the cupcake first). Be gentle! Fill with a little bit of cherry pie filling. Top with lattice icing dyed with a little food coloring. ENJOY:)!!
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