Elisabeth's day care only likes chocolate cupcakes. At least I can be creative with the icing. This year I found these sugared fish at the Bulk Barn in 5 different colours which was appropriate since E was turning 5. Basic butter cream icing tinted blue to look like water. Apparently the yellow fish were the best and the orange were the least favourite according to E.
For this "cake" I made two dozen vanilla cupcakes and arranged them on the cake board in the shape of the rainbow and clouds. To make sure the cupcakes didn't move I added a dab of icing on the bottom of each cupcake. It's not that often that I get to dye icing, or six different colours at once. You can get a really good bicep workout, Miss E was kind enough to lend her figurines as models for the picture. The clouds piped out perfectly. The rainbow was a little more difficult. Next time I would put a base coat on the cupcakes to help keep the top coat more level and easier to pipe over.
What a great idea! They look awesome.
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