I went to a cake decorating course recently, a brilliant woman showed me 6 fabulous cupcakes and step by step way on how to make them. When you know how to do it, it's simple. Hope you have fun and this helps.
Ingredients:
5 cupcakes- vanilla or chocolate.
Piping bag full of vanilla butter cream with red food coloring down the side for swirl.
Black ready roll icing
Red ready roll icing
Yellow ready roll icing
Chocolate flavored ready roll icing
Green ready roll icing
Orange ready roll icing
White ready roll icing
Green butter cream in piping bag with grass nozzle.
1 Ice cream cone with chocolate cake in it. ( make sure the bottom of the cone is flat so it stands up.)
A flake
Marshmallows
Mini eggs
Chocolate butter cream
Boiled water to stick icing on or edible glue which works to.
Method:
Ice cream cupcake:
1. Take the Ice cream cone chocolate cake, and the piping bag with the vanilla then starting from the outside pipe the icing on the cake like you would a normal cupcake.
2. Pop the flake in on the side.
Nest cupcake:
1. On a cupcake pipe some green icing in the center and then spread on the cupcake, so it covers the top.
2. Then in the center pipe with the chocolate butter cream, a circle to act as a nest. Sprinkle lots of mini eggs in the middle for the eggs.
Marshmallow sheep:
1. To start take your vanilla butter cream and spread over the top of the cupcake to create a surface for the marshmallows to stick on.
2. For the sheep's head take a chunk of black icing and mould it into a ball about the size of a gobstopper. Squeeze a point of the circle into an egg shape. Poke two holes into the face to make nostrils do this with a modelling tool that looks like a pencil or with the end of a paintbrush.
3. Slide a knife under the nostrils and open the slit slightly for the mouth. Now in the head on the top make 2 slits for the ears to go in.
4. To make the ears make two balls, slightly smaller than maltesers. Then make them each into a cone. By squeezing the top and rolling. Then take the end of a paintbrush, or pencil tool to indent the cone on the side, to flatten it slightly. Insert the ears in to the slits after putting a little of the boiled water or glue in the slits.
5. For the final part of the face to make the eyes make a very small ball of white and flatten it do this twice and put a little water on both of them place on the face. Then for the pupils make two balls the size of hundreds and thousands, flatten and put a little boiling water on each and place on the white eyes. You now have a sheep's face.
6. To make the tail make a ball from the black icing the size of a Malteser, shape into a cone and stick the tail onto the cupcake also put the head on- the other side but no need to put water on the icing because you stick it onto the butter cream. Next put marshmallows all over the butter cream, filling in all the gaps.
Ladybird cupcake:
1. Take another cupcake and pipe some vanilla butter cream in the center and spread all over the top of the cupcake.
2. Take the red icing and roll out to the thickness of about half a centimeter- cut out to fit the top of the cupcake, then place onto the cupcake. take a knife and then down the middle around half way down the cupcake cut a slit, for the wings.
3. Take some black icing and roll out to the thickness of about half a centimeter, then using a pastry cutter- the one used last time is fine. Cut out a circle of black icing. Now take the circle and cut the icing again, but half way down with the circle cutter- take away the excess and place the black face on the red base with a little of the boiling water or glue.
4. To make the mouth take a tool that looks like half a straw, then press into the face near the bottom- smiley mouth! To make the the eyes make two pea sized balls from white icing then flatten, and put on the face with boiling water or edible glue. Then make two hundred and thousands sized balls then flatten and place on the white icing, to make eyes. Then take a half -straw like modelling tool and pierce the black icing, to make a mouth on the face. You now have a lady bug!
Snail cupcake:
1. Take another cupcake and spread a little of the green icing on the cake. Then take some chocolate ready roll icing and roll it out. Cut a circular shape the size of the cupcake and place onto the cupcake. Take some of the green icing and make into a sausage shape, then pinch one end to make a head then place length ways for the snail body.
2. Roll some red ready roll icing into a sausage then roll it up so it becomes a spiral. Put a streak of boiled water or edible glue onto the body, then place the shell on. Make the smile from the half straw tool on the face an make the eyes. Place on with boiled water or edible glue. Make two holes with the end of a paintbrush on its head. Take two small hundred and thousand icing balls, shape them into cones and place inside the hole.
3. Make some flowers from ready roll icings and small flower cutters ,and stick on the sides with the boiled water or edible glue.
Caterpillar cake:
1. Take the next cupcake and pipe the green icing on the top with a grass nozzle.
2. Then take the yellow and the orange icing and make 4 yellow colour balls and 3 orange, about the size of a malteser each. Using one of the yellow balls shape it into a cone for the tail. Place the tail at the edge of the cupcake, and then place an orange ball in front of it, then put a yellow, then an orange, then a yellow. Then instead of in front of the yellow ball put the orange ball on top of the yellow, and then put the last yellow ball on top of the orange. You should have a sloping caterpillar body.
3. With the straw tool create a mouth. Make two holes in the head then with the orange icing, make two small cones for antenies from ready roll icing, and place in the holes. Then create two eyes and place on the face- you now have a caterpillar. Then with blossom cutters cut out 6 flowers from red icing, and put three on each side of the caterpillar out of order so it looks realistic.
Happy baking! Beth x
Ingredients:
5 cupcakes- vanilla or chocolate.
Piping bag full of vanilla butter cream with red food coloring down the side for swirl.
Black ready roll icing
Red ready roll icing
Yellow ready roll icing
Chocolate flavored ready roll icing
Green ready roll icing
Orange ready roll icing
White ready roll icing
Green butter cream in piping bag with grass nozzle.
1 Ice cream cone with chocolate cake in it. ( make sure the bottom of the cone is flat so it stands up.)
A flake
Marshmallows
Mini eggs
Chocolate butter cream
Boiled water to stick icing on or edible glue which works to.
Method:
Ice cream cupcake:
1. Take the Ice cream cone chocolate cake, and the piping bag with the vanilla then starting from the outside pipe the icing on the cake like you would a normal cupcake.
2. Pop the flake in on the side.
Nest cupcake:
2. Then in the center pipe with the chocolate butter cream, a circle to act as a nest. Sprinkle lots of mini eggs in the middle for the eggs.
Marshmallow sheep:
1. To start take your vanilla butter cream and spread over the top of the cupcake to create a surface for the marshmallows to stick on.
2. For the sheep's head take a chunk of black icing and mould it into a ball about the size of a gobstopper. Squeeze a point of the circle into an egg shape. Poke two holes into the face to make nostrils do this with a modelling tool that looks like a pencil or with the end of a paintbrush.
3. Slide a knife under the nostrils and open the slit slightly for the mouth. Now in the head on the top make 2 slits for the ears to go in.
4. To make the ears make two balls, slightly smaller than maltesers. Then make them each into a cone. By squeezing the top and rolling. Then take the end of a paintbrush, or pencil tool to indent the cone on the side, to flatten it slightly. Insert the ears in to the slits after putting a little of the boiled water or glue in the slits.
5. For the final part of the face to make the eyes make a very small ball of white and flatten it do this twice and put a little water on both of them place on the face. Then for the pupils make two balls the size of hundreds and thousands, flatten and put a little boiling water on each and place on the white eyes. You now have a sheep's face.
6. To make the tail make a ball from the black icing the size of a Malteser, shape into a cone and stick the tail onto the cupcake also put the head on- the other side but no need to put water on the icing because you stick it onto the butter cream. Next put marshmallows all over the butter cream, filling in all the gaps.
Ladybird cupcake:
2. Take the red icing and roll out to the thickness of about half a centimeter- cut out to fit the top of the cupcake, then place onto the cupcake. take a knife and then down the middle around half way down the cupcake cut a slit, for the wings.
3. Take some black icing and roll out to the thickness of about half a centimeter, then using a pastry cutter- the one used last time is fine. Cut out a circle of black icing. Now take the circle and cut the icing again, but half way down with the circle cutter- take away the excess and place the black face on the red base with a little of the boiling water or glue.
4. To make the mouth take a tool that looks like half a straw, then press into the face near the bottom- smiley mouth! To make the the eyes make two pea sized balls from white icing then flatten, and put on the face with boiling water or edible glue. Then make two hundred and thousands sized balls then flatten and place on the white icing, to make eyes. Then take a half -straw like modelling tool and pierce the black icing, to make a mouth on the face. You now have a lady bug!
Snail cupcake:
2. Roll some red ready roll icing into a sausage then roll it up so it becomes a spiral. Put a streak of boiled water or edible glue onto the body, then place the shell on. Make the smile from the half straw tool on the face an make the eyes. Place on with boiled water or edible glue. Make two holes with the end of a paintbrush on its head. Take two small hundred and thousand icing balls, shape them into cones and place inside the hole.
3. Make some flowers from ready roll icings and small flower cutters ,and stick on the sides with the boiled water or edible glue.
Caterpillar cake:
2. Then take the yellow and the orange icing and make 4 yellow colour balls and 3 orange, about the size of a malteser each. Using one of the yellow balls shape it into a cone for the tail. Place the tail at the edge of the cupcake, and then place an orange ball in front of it, then put a yellow, then an orange, then a yellow. Then instead of in front of the yellow ball put the orange ball on top of the yellow, and then put the last yellow ball on top of the orange. You should have a sloping caterpillar body.
3. With the straw tool create a mouth. Make two holes in the head then with the orange icing, make two small cones for antenies from ready roll icing, and place in the holes. Then create two eyes and place on the face- you now have a caterpillar. Then with blossom cutters cut out 6 flowers from red icing, and put three on each side of the caterpillar out of order so it looks realistic.
Happy baking! Beth x
