Miss E's day care had a bake sale today so I made these cupcakes. I thought that I could just spread on the icing for the glue without having to pipe it on since I was putting fondant over top, but I was wrong. It actually took longer than piping and looked a little sloppy. Fortunately the fondant covered most of the icing. The snowflakes were punches that I got from Flour Confections. For the mini cupcakes I piped on some chocolate icing and dotted them each with a Smartie.
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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