Ornament Cupcakes

I made these for Christmas dinner and some to hand out for gifts... They are Red Velvet and Strawberry Cupcakes, with cream cheese icing and a hint of peppermint flavoring added...the tops and hooks are made with and covered in fondant icing, and painted with gold luster dust. Enjoy the pics and Merry Christmas,Mary :o)

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Comments (11)

bailey4302 on 19 Dec 2007 , 8:09pm

very nice! where did you find the boxes?

serenelui on 22 Dec 2007 , 5:48pm

Thanks for the tips frosting111... will try my hand again at making these.. hopefully i can get it to look as great as yours did!! :)

bailey4302 on 21 Dec 2007 , 8:05pm

Was this made with the wilton mini ball pan? Also, when I worked with fondant and a circle I tend to not know how to make the seems come together...when you wrap it how did you seal it together?

frosting111 on 21 Dec 2007 , 8:43pm

bailey4302 , I did use the Wilton mini ball pan,but only one half is on top of a cupcake...Ya know I've never covered anything totally round, so I'm not sure how one would seal the seams up,thoughts to ponder indeed. I would think with what ever medium you work with when doing fondant, and seam it on the bottom of the cake???

bailey4302 on 21 Dec 2007 , 11:21pm

Thanks for your response...I just love 'em! They look perfect.

jmcooley on 19 Dec 2007 , 4:05am

Very beautiful

frosting111 on 21 Dec 2007 , 1:41am

Thanks..I got these boxes at Walmart

serenelui on 21 Dec 2007 , 1:01pm

Wow.. so pretty.. could i ask how you got the fondant to look so smooth.. i tried making it and only ended up making a huge mess :(

frosting111 on 21 Dec 2007 , 2:35pm

serenelui, I used the mini Wilton fondant roller with the 1/4 roller bands on it...I did noticed the thinner I made the fondant at first the harder it was to work with on the cupcakes, so I kept the bands on, and I used a 4 1/2 inch round cutter as well,it was a perfect fit.

serenelui on 21 Dec 2007 , 2:55pm

you make it sound so easy... my main problem is smoothing the fondant over the domes.. i always end up with bubbles or creases..

frosting111 on 21 Dec 2007 , 3:40pm

serenelui, I did a lot of smoothing and shaping with my hands, I noticed when the icing underneath got warm with my body temp it was easier to smooth the fondant out. Anytime slight crease would show up I would lift that area up a tad right away and re-smooth it over and over till smoothed out for me. I didn't have bubble issues, but if I had of,I would have stick it with a straight pin and smoothed it out that way.