I was asked to make some mini muffins for our team meeting today. Since it was Halloween I figured I would do the icing in orange but then I didn't want a lot of left over orange icing in my fridge with nowhere to go. Then I remembered seeing fang cupcakes in my travels on Google. Of course I decided to do this at 10pm last night. I didn't have any type of gel or cherry pie filling, ideas I saw from other examples. I did have strawberry jam. So, I added a bit of red dye to that and with a tooth pick (wonderful tool) added the "bite" marks. Super fun and easy to decorate.
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.
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