Cat Cupcakes

I made this cute cat cupcake for one of my friends Mia this week. She loves cats and I made this cupcake to resemble one of her cats called sprinkles!

What you will need for decorating:

Cupcakes I used chocolate recipe here

Butter cream recipe here

Piping bag

Star piping tip

Black fondant

White fondant

Pink fondant

Black writing icing

First I made all of my details to go on my cat.

First I made my two black eyes. I did this by rolling out a piece of black fondant and with the back of a piping tip cut two round circles.

For the nose I rolled a ball of pink fondant an pressed it down slightly with my finger tip.

To make the ears I cut two triangles out of white fondant. I then cut two pink triangles smaller than the white ones. I then placed the pink on top of the white with a dab of water.

I think placed my butter cream icing in a piping bag with a star tip. The tip I am using came with the piping bags so I don't know exactly what number it is.

I then piped stars all around the cupcake. The best way I find doing this is to pipe a circle around the edge of the cupcake and then work your way around until you cover the whole cup cake.

I then added my eyes, nose and ears to the cupcake.

With my black writing icing I piped whiskers on the cat. Three on each side of the nose. 

There you have your cat cupcake. Mia loved this cupcake and I am sure your cat loving friend will love it too!

With love Angelique xx

Elmo Cupcakes

Today I am going to show you have to make these gorgeous Elmo cupcakes which are a continuation from the cookie monster cupcakes we made in the previous post. If you didn't already know both cookie monster and Elmo are from sesame street! 

You will need:

Cupcakes recipe can be found here

Butter cream icing recipe found here

Red food colouring

White chocolate melts

Black fondant

Cookie cutter

Piping bag

Wilton piping tip 1M

First bake your cupcakes and make your butter cream icing and colour it red.

Next make your eyes the same as you did for the cookie monster cupcakes. I would suggest making the eyes in advanced as it will save you time. For the eyes you get your white chocolate melts and your black fondant. You roll a tiny ball of fondant and place it on the white chocolate. Place it close to the edge of the circle.

For the nose roll a ball of orange fondant and then make the ball into a slight cone shape. I would also suggest making the noses in advanced as well, because  it will save you time and it will also allow the fondant to dry up and harden.

For the mouth roll out some black fondant and with a round cookie cutter cut it out. Then with the circle halve it.

Then place your red icing in a piping bag with your 1M tip or any star tip.

Pipe the icing around the cupcake starting from the outside and piping inwards. Make sure the icing is quite flat and doesn't have much height.

 

Then place your eyes and nose on. Place the nose in between the two eyes. Then place the mouth in at the bottom of the face making sure it is pushed right in. And tada!

 

I made these for one of my family friends who is turning 9 today! I just placed them on a white round plate and with my writing icing I wrote happy birthday Natalie!

With love Angelique xx

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

Hi everyone! Today I am going to show how to make these cute cookie monster cupcakes, which are everywhere at the moment and are really easy anyone can do them.

What you will need
Cupcakes! Recipe for the cupcakes is the same one I used for the chocolate sundae cupcakes and it can be found  here.
12 cupcake butter cream recipe found here
Chocolate chip cookies
Coconut
Blue Food dye
White Chocolate melts
Black fondant of choclate chips
Piping bag 
Circle piping tip.

First make you delicious cupcakes!

Next Make your butter cream and colour it blue.

In a zip lock bag place the coconut. I filled my bag 2/3 of the way up, to cover 6 cupcakes. The place some blue food dye in and mix it around until you coconut is dyed blue. This will act like the fur on cookie monster.

I would suggest making the eyes in advanced as it will save you time. So for the eyes you get your white chocolate melts and your black fondant. You roll a tiny ball of fondant and place it on the white chocolate. Place it close to the edge of the circle.

Next with your blue icing place it in a piping bag with a round tip, I used the Wilton 20 tip. Pipe a mound on the cupcake. You could also just spread the icing on the cup cake, but I think the piping bag gives the icing a nice height.

Then spread the icing around to the edges, but making sure you don't push down the height of the icing.

When piped, place the blue coconut in a bowl and roll the cupcake until the icing is covered. With the palm of your hand gently shape the icing to make it a dome as it might have fallen out of place when you were rolling it in the coconut.

Place your eyes in  the icing and make the eyes look a bit crazy as cookie monster has crazy eyes!

 With a knife, cut a slit a 1/3 of the way through the cupcake. Put the cookie in the slit and push it in making sure you push it into the cupcake as well. I cut my cookie in half as it was way to big for the cupcake and it wouldn't hold. I would suggest putting the cookie in the cupcake forst and then the eyes as i found the eye fell out of play when i pushed the cookie in.

And there you have your cute little cookie monster cupcake!

With love Angelique xx

Butter Cream Icing recipe

This is one of my favourite icings and I use it with most of my cupcakes and cakes, and today I am going to share it with you. I have included it some posts but I will clarify the amount of ingredients for the icing for certain amounts of cupcakes.

To ice 12 cupcakes you will need:

180 grams of butter, softened

3 cups of icing sugar, sifted

1/2 teaspoons vanilla

2 tbsp full cream milk (add less milk if adding food colouring)

Method:

1. Blend butter in a large bowl for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy.

2. Sift half the icing sugar into the butter mixture and blend

3. Add vanilla and blend

4. When vanilla is blended through the mixture, add milk

5. Blend milk until fully combined and then sift the rest of the icing sugar in the mixture

6.Blend for another 3-6 minutes.

For 24 cupcakes you will need:

250 grams of butter, softened

5 cups of icing sugar, sifted

2 teaspoons vanilla

3 tbsp full cream milk (add less milk if adding food colouring)

Method:

The same method as above.

When I crumb coat cakes, putting a thin layer of icing over the cake to trap all the crumbs usually before placing fondant on,  I use the 12 cupcake icing mix. When I am covering the whole cake with butter icing like the ombre cake, I use the 24 cupcake icing mix.