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Happy Pumpkin Mini Cupcake Toppers

Posted by: Karyn Granrud / Cupcakes, Halloween

Did you enjoy your three day weekend??
We sure did.
Well… Sorta… 
I haven’t been feeling very good the past few days, but a little R&R seemed to have helped.
I took a few days to relax (no running), catch up on some shows (way too many) and bake a few easy vanilla cupcakes with my Little Cup.
Have you made baked goods with this Butter Vanilla Emulsion? 
Oh my…. it added such a wonderful flavor to my vanilla cupcakes. You should try it in your next baked treat.  Sugar Cookies, Cakes, Ice Cream, etc., etc.
So, my Little Cup and I played with some fondant.
I used to be afraid of fondant. I thought you had to be some certified cake decorator in order to work with it. So, last year, I took a Wilton’s Cake Decorating Class and got over my fear.
Turns out, fondant is really just edible play-doh.
Even my 6 year old could make some pumpkins with me. 
I started with some white Marshmallow Fondant and just colored it.

We had some great bonding time making fun pumpkins together. We rolled pumpkins and pumpkin stems.
She had a lot of fun making these mini cupcake toppers.
And…. She knows her Mommy! She knew that I wanted to take some pictures, so she helped by drawing me a background picture.
Isn’t she the bestest Little Helper ever!
I love you Little Bug

Fondant Pumpkins

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Ingredients

  • Pre-Made Fondant
  • Orange Food Coloring
  • Green Food Coloring
  • 12 Mini Cupcakes

Instructions

  1. Bake and Frost Mini Cupcakes.
  2. Take a half cup of fondant and add a few drops of orange food coloring and fold the fondant over and over blending in the orange.
  3. Roll little one inch pumpkins and indent the top.
  4. Tint a pinch of fondant green and roll into skinny ropes.
  5. Add ropes in different lengths to the top of the pumpkins.
  6. No need to be afraid of fondant. Get in there and play with it.

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  10. Elaine says

    October 10, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Haha your daughter is the best little helper! Such an awesome background. And I've never tried the vanilla butter emulsion (only butter extract), but that's going on my list of things to buy!

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  11. Keri says

    October 10, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Too cute!! I am eventually going to make it into the cupcake world but right now I am just having so much fun with the cake pops and bites! I really want to try that Vanilla butter emulsion you mentioned though. 🙂

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  14. Printabelle says

    October 12, 2012 at 5:38 am

    I've never seen the butter vanilla, but I can only imagine how wonderful it would make baked goods taste! I love your pumpkins that your little pumpkin helped you make. I appreciate you encouragement in using fondant, my daughter makes lots of polymer clay items and she wants to try fondant now, so I'm glad you said it is not too hard!

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  18. Mariel says

    October 14, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    Great job, adorable! I would love to have you stop by 'Or so she says…' today and share some of your great ideas with my readers! The 'Your Great Idea' link party runs every Sat through Tuesday. Hope to see you there! http://www.oneshetwoshe.com

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  23. Britni @ Hubby Made Me says

    October 17, 2012 at 8:12 am

    These are way too cute! The little pumpkins are just adorable. But the background picture is the best part! Too cute 🙂 Thank you so much for coming by to link up at Throwback Thursday, I hope you'll stop by again this week 🙂

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