Easter Cupcakes!

I did it! And I was able to use the one thing that I have been SO excited to use....FONDANT!!! :) When Easter weekend came I went out to Michael's and even though I wasn't sure what I needed, I didn't care I was so excited!

This picture was my little working station for Fondant. I had fondant, coloring, rolling pin, knives, a bunny stamp, and some paint brushes. I couldn't find a bunny cut out so what I did was (I learned this from watching Georgetown Cupcake) rolled out some fondant and colored a bunny stamp with food coloring markers and cut it out with a butter knife.

Now, this was before I found the markers. I first started with a little experiment and with my inexperience, didn't know where to find the food coloring markers since Michael's didn't have them. I colored the fondant with blue and pink coloring. I thought this was going to work but wasn't really happy with the result. I wanted them to really look like bunnies, and not just a fondant bunny.

 

Although this would have worked I wanted to be able to see the details to the stamp which looked like a really cute bunny character. So although I would have settled for blue and pink bunnies, I figured I would try one more store before I settled. By this time it was late at night when all the stores were closing. So I stopped at A.C. Moore but just as I was walking in they were locking their doors. Boo.... so I figured I would try Walmart. And sure enough they had the markers, but then again doesn't Walmart have everything?

Once I found them and got home it was almost 1030 and I still had to frost them let alone make all new white bunnies, stamp them and cute them out. Once I started it was done and I was on to frosting the cupcakes while the fondant dried. I had gotten a grass tip to make it look like real grass and colored the frosting grass green. It looked so pretty...

These pictures are right when the frosting was just made and he was about to go to bed... I couldn't let him not lick for the first time. He thought it was yummy and wouldn't stop asking for more.

Once the bunnies dried a bit and I got all the cupcakes frosted I was able to put my little creations on and have my finished product! and after 10 hours of work....

I think they turned out great!!!! I brought them to my Mother's where we were celebrating Easter and everyone loved them. My grandpa tried stealing one before dinner but I talked him out of it  :) and of course Braeden LOVED them! Once he finished the one I gave him he asked for more.

We all finished the night cheering on Braeden while he searched for Easter eggs in Meema's basement. It was a great day and start to all of my cupcake and cake creations.

In memory Of Louis Michael Apostolakos May 22, 1922 - December 21, 2010

 

Now to Begin...

Now I have the blog, I have the inspiration and the recipes... now I need the tools! I couple weeks ago I went to Michael's and just browsed at all the cake tools and things. They had so many different things; I recognized a lot of it but had never used it before. When I made Braeden's cake I bought the already made frosting in the tubes with tips on them already. When I walked down the cake tools aisle I saw metal tips, plastic tips, kits tips and every kind of tip you can think of. And then there were the bags for to hold the icing, tubes of fondant, coloring to color the fondant and all sorts of different sprinkles. I think the one that I really want to get my hands on is the fondant and the tips with frosting bags. I think I will feel more like a baker when I have worked with them and gain some experience with them.

Fondant

My Mom is walking in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure in September and she needs to raise money. The first thing that I told her that I wanted to do to help was have a bake sale. I am planning on making a pink ribbon cake and then cupcakes with a pink ribbon fondant decoration on top. And of course there is Easter and well, Mother's Day and my Birthday at the end of the may. I know I will make a mother's day cake for my mom, and I know she will share it with me :) and I probably will make my own birthday cake! And Father's Day in June, and Braeden's Birthday in July.... Ok I know I am going a little ahead but I am just so excited to start all of this. So to start out the next post will be all about my Easter cupcakes that I made for the whole family.