Hooray for SPRING! Today we made a happy platter of springtime cupcakes!! :0)--- Nevermind that it was a cloudy, cold day... and I'm going to overlook the snow shower this morning.... it is SPRING and we are going to make some cupcakes to prove it.
We actually made a video on the making of these cupcakes (which I'll be editing tonight & posting to the site)....but I thought I'd show you how to make a few of them for a quick blog tutorial!
I love to paint in watercolors ( or at least, I used to!) ....and for me, painting with lemon extract and coloring gel is pretty much the same thing. With this cute cake topper, I started with a fondant egg cut-out, and then painted on my stripes! Easy peasy.... and such a cute topper for a lonely swirl of buttercream!
Next up--- springtime hats! These cupcakes reminded me of the Easter hats that I used to wear when I was little. I used to LOVE shopping for an Easter hat and even little white gloves-- fancy, fancy! So, I had to include these sweet buttercream hats-- which would fit perfectly into a fashion themed cupcake platter too!
First, I used a petal tip (Wilton 104) to create a brim... looks like we're making a flower, doesn't it?
Then, a Wilton tip 12 for the center!
I made three... don't forget to give them a little accent or two!
And then finally...how about a little bunny? Here's a sweet one--just remember to use a medium too stiff consistency buttercream (add more confectioners' sugar) so that the head will keep it's shape-- You'll see the rundown of tips below, but I wanted to add that I dotted on the bunny eyes with a toothpick dipped in black coloring gel. That's the quickest way to go :0)
Here's the rest of the Easter designs that I made today! Maybe you'll see something you'd like to try out-- have a great week!
These are so precious!! Melissa, do you think that I could use a cream cheese icing for the cupcakes?
Thanks aliG-- A lot of cream cheese frosting recipes (like the one in our Recipes section) are on the softer side and not ideal for piping. When I have to frost a cake or pipe with cream cheese frosting, I just use mine but thicken it up with regular vanilla buttercream. (Or vice versa--start with vanilla and mix in enough cream cheese frosting to change the flavor) --
However, there is a popular recipe on Cake Central for a crusting (and pipeable) cream cheese buttercream--it contains shortening. Here is a link:
http://cakecentral.com/recipe/crusting-cream-cheese-icing
Thanks so much!! LOVE, LOVE, LoVE your website!! It is so much fun! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!!
Great Cupcakes!!! n Lovely Hats!!! can you pls tell me what Tip you use to make the Green Swirl?? is it 1M or 2D or something else??