Month: June 2014

Donald Duck Cupcakes

Donald Duck birthday blog hop

Happy Birthday Donald Duck!

Today, I’m so excited to be participating in a Birthday Blog Hop for my favorite hot-headed feathered friend.  Let’s get this party started with some Donald Duck inspired cupcakes!

Donald Duck cupcakes

 Are you ready to start celebrating?  Here’s a photo tutorial on how to make these super simple Donald Duck inspired cupcakes, including a printable hat template.

Since Donald has white feathers, I chose to make white cake cupcakes.  After baking and cooling, I iced them in a simple swirl formation by starting on the outside of the cupcake and making my way to the center.  After one swirl, I made a second swirl on top to give it height.

Donald Duck cupcake 020At this point (pun intended), my son walked into the room and said, “Cool Mommy, you made Donald Duck butts!”

I have to admit, I agreed with him.  They do look like Donald’s butt.  If you’d like to celebrate Donald’s birthday today and you’re pressed for time, then I’m certain you’ll get a chuckle or two from your kids when you present them with Donald Duck butts after school today.

However, if you’d like to make the cupcakes I featured at the beginning of this post, let’s continue to the next step.

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Print out this Donald Duck template below and trace it on a piece of blue card-stock.  You’ll need two hats for each cupcake.

Donald Duck Hat Template

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Hot glue a toothpick and a piece of black ribbon to each hat.

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Add a second Donald hat on top with another dab or two of hot glue.

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Donald’s hat is now complete and it’s time to move onto his bow-tie.

Using red candy melts in a squeeze bottle, pipe bow-ties on wax paper.  To keep my ties consistent, I drew a bow-tie on a piece of paper and used it as a template under the wax paper to trace with chocolate.  Allow the chocolate to fully dry before placing them on your iced cupcakes.

Donald Duck cupcake bowties

Isn’t he such a dapper duck?

Donald Duck cupcake

Happy Birthday Donald!

Don’t let the party stop here!  Visit the other blogs on this Donald Duck Birthday Blog Hop for more fun!

Belle Party Cupcakes

Belle Rose Cupcakes

 

Did you know that one cupcake with a rosette style swirl on top costs $3 at the grocery store?

Some hard-core party planning is going on in my house this week.  My daughter Victoria will be 3 years old on June 12th and she’s been requesting a Princess Belle (Beauty and the Beast) birthday party since January.  Yes, for six months she’s been telling the world that she’s going to have a Belle party.  I have to give her props.  The girl knows what she wants.  So here we are less than two weeks away from the big Belle party day and I’m ashamed to say I’m running around trying to put together a Belle party.

First on the list of things to do is to purchase or make the cake and cupcakes.   Traditionally, I use a small vanilla cake for her birthday photo and song and also chocolate cupcakes themed to compliment the cake.  It makes handing out cake much easier when you can have a helper pass out the cupcakes while you’re slicing the cake.  This year when searching for a Belle-inspired cake and cupcakes in our local grocery store, I came across a pretty cupcake with a single rose on top. It was absolutely beautiful.  However, each rose cupcake was $3.00!  I don’t know about you, but $72 for 24 cupcakes is a bit out of my price range for a birthday party.  I left the store on a mission to try my hand a making a rose cupcake for my little princess.

After a few Google searches, I stumbled upon the blog, Simply Sweets by honeybee http://www.simplysweetsbyhoneybee.com/. OH MY GOODNESS, I instantly fell in love with Melissa’s blog.  She’s so incredibly talented and her tutorials are fantastic.  Within one of her posts she shared three flower-making tutorials to use on cupcakes, a Rose Swirl, Rosettes, and a Frilly Flower.  She made it seem so easy to make her beautiful cupcakes that I thought I’d give it a try.

Here’s my attempt at the Rose Swirl.

 

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I used store-bought icing, so the consistently is different. In addition, I didn’t have the same tips that Melissa used for these projects, but I tried the concepts anyway.  I’m going to work on them a bit more during the next week, look for the tips she used and try my hand at making icing…

These are the tips that I used.

I tried an open star Wilton 1M and a closed star Wilton 2D when I made the Rose Swirl and I used an Ateco 16 open star for the Rosettes pictured below.

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 Here’s my attempt at the Rosettes style cupcake.

 

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If you’ve ever wanted to make a beautiful rose cupcake for your little Belle, stop by Simply Sweets by honeybee!  She’ll teach you in matter of minutes!  I’m sure glad that I did.  Below it the link to take you directly to her post that includes the video tutorial.

Mother’s Day Cupcakes {Video Tutorial}

Now back to the Belle party planning I go!  Have a great day!