Saturday, January 15, 2011

Elmo Cupcakes


I delivered my second cake order for the charity Free Cakes for Kids today. It was for a special needs adult who wanted either cookies or cupcakes and either Elmo or circus theme. After doing a little searching I thought Elmo cupcakes would be fun and not too difficult to make. The flavor request for the cupcakes was chocolate so I went with the Devil's Food cupcakes from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes cookbook. I'd made them before with good luck so I thought that would be a good choice again. I ended up with 28 cupcakes so that left a few for tasting because the containers I had held a dozen each. I got the cupcakes baked last night and then planned to decorate this morning.

I think I underestimated just how long it would take to decorate them. Originally I thought I would pipe the fur and the face on the cupcakes, but the one I saw online that I liked had used fondant for the face. Plus, I realized this morning that I didn't have any black food coloring so I decided to just pipe on the fur and use fondant for the eyes, nose, and mouth. The fur took a bit longer than I thought to pipe on, but there was certainly nothing difficult there.

The only thing difficult about the face was trying to get the mouth to be the right shape and then trying to stick the black part of the eyes on the white part after they were on the cupcakes. Those things wouldn't really be that hard except I was in a huge hurry. Daniel printed off a map and directions to the place I was dropping them off while I was finishing the cupcakes, and that's when I found out it would take about 40 minutes to get there. Oops! But, I got them all decorated and in their containers and managed to make it there on time! Aren't they cute?

7 comments:

  1. Andrea, they are SUPER cute! Looks just like Elmo! The eyes, nose, and mouth are perfect. I think I like this take better than if everything is fondant. It gives more of a "furry" effect :).

    Your hands must be tired after piping all those hair. Which tip did you use, btw?

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  2. Thanks, Jenn! Yeah, I like the fur, too. I used Wilton tip 233 for the fur. It has multiple holes so I didn't have to pipe each one individually. It's often used for grass, but it works well for fur also.

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  3. Soo cute and so adorable!! :) I bet all the kids loved it!

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  4. Absolutely adorable! You are so sweet to use your talents this way!

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  5. These are super cute!!! How nice of you to give away another birthday cake in the form of cupcakes! I've used that tip for grass before and I know how tired your hands must have felt :o)

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  6. Thanks everyone! I think it just makes baking a lot more fun when you know they're going to someone who will truly appreciate them. Plus, it gives me a chance to make cute, kid themed cakes!

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  7. Those are darling!

    Have you tried AmeriColor? I like it a lot more than Wilton. Not even a close contest. Try their Super Red, you'll love it.

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