I promised cupcakes and here they are. I love the idea of a decorated cupcake...they are just sooo cute. I'm not positive it is scientifically proven, but I'm pretty sure they have 50% less fat and calories than cake. Pretty sure.
These are strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant ears and bows.
So, I did that big swirl of buttercream on top that you see on all of those cooking shows. At least I tried, and that is all that matters. I convienently decorated them to cover up any "mishaps". Then I added all of the white buttercream dots. Looking back I think it would've been more cute (cuter?, super cute?, the cutest?) to make the dots in white fondant. I will try that next time.
Do you remember all of those black circles I made? Most of those became cupcake ears. I tried to just stick them into the buttercream and that totally didn't work, so I put toothpicks into the circles.
Then I stuck them into the cupcake.
They looked even better than I thought they would.
Ohh, last but not least, they all got a bow. I made the bows so they had a tab on the back (check out my last blog if you want to see a picture). I stuck the tab into the buttercream. This is one idea that I had that worked perfectly.
Ta-da!
The ears remind me of Thin Mints. Now I am craving the Girl Scout cookies that no one bothered to sell to me this year. LOL. Seriously, though, the cupcakes look awesome!
ReplyDeleteGreat Job Shelby, next time I need a cake. Your going to make it :)
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