Tutorial Tuesday - Frosted Cupcake Cookie

These cookies make neat favours for parties and can be made in any colour to suit. They are really easy if you have the cupcake cutter on hand. We have multiple different cupcake shapes and sizes available. 

Once cookies are baked and cooled, brush them with a little sugar glue all over, excluding  the edges.

Make a sausage of various coloured fondant. You won't need much of the strongest colour as it becomes very dominant. Then follow Trish's tutorial video of fondant marbling and roll your finished log out in one direction to create the stripes as pictured below.

Again use your cupcake cutter to cut stripey base shapes, trim with a sharp knife and place on top of the sticky cookies.

To achieve the frosting look, roll out plain white fondant and roll over with with your choice of swirly girlyimpression m at placed on top. This time use the top of the cookie cutter to get your frosting outline and trim with a sharp knife so that the base sits nicely against the top of the striped 'cupcake wrapper'. A light sprinkle of non-toxic glitter accentuates the pattern even more. I used crystal candy pink glitter to tie the colours in the stripe below in with the purple gumball placed on top. Indenting the large end of a ball tool from this set into the freshly laid white fondant makes a nice hollow for the gumball to sit in.

The beauty of the marbling method is that no two stripe cut-outs will be identical. 

Sealed snugly in a favour bag these cookies look great and are easy to hand out individually.

SPCA Cupcake Day Prep Underway - from Kiwicakes test kitchen

As you know Kiwicakes proudly supports the annual SPCA cupcake day and this year we are baking for the cause, too. 

We will have team Kiwicakes' cupcakes for sale on the day in-store. You can support the SPCA's fine work whilst enjoying a cute cupcake! Here are the details to put in your diary now:

Monday 26th August
Cupcakes available in-store from 11am to 2pm (1c Grant Street, Kamo, Whangarei)
$2.50 each
$20 for 1/2 dozen in a presentation box
$35 for 1 dozen in a presentation box

You can pre-order your cupcakes by emailng sandra@kiwicakes.co.nz . All funds go directly to the SPCA, so please remember to bring cash with you.

You can never prepare for these things too early, so we got cracking on some toppers today. With the addition of a magic little powder called Tylose our shapes made from regular will last for weeks. Here is a sneak peek at some pieces coming together so far...

When making cupcakes in large quantities it's worthwhile having a few tools up your sleeve to produce uniform shapes, and quickly. For the cute little dog houses below I used a cookie cutter from the Precious Paws mini cutter set. It's adorned with a Funny  Bone candy and will look great when some green grass is piped at its base.

I achieved the woodgrain look by marbling warm shades together. To make 20+ dog house shapes you will need:

50g Dark Chocolate fondant (this is yummy!)
50g Pastel Yellow fondant
1/2 teaspoon Tylose hardening powder (mix 1/4t into each colour)

You can learn to marble by visiting an earlier Kiwicakes blogpost here. This is my 'wood grain effect' which I rolled out to 3mm thick. Remember to store pre-made decorations in a breathable cardboard-type box as they will sweat and wilt in an air-tight container. I like to keep them in the hot water cupboard, up and out of little fingers way!

Click here if you are interested in registering as a cupcake cook yourself and using your baking prowess to support the SPCA. Remember there are some great prizes to be won.