Muppets Cupcakes

 

I made these cupcakes for my niece's 14th birthday.  I think that they were possibly the most time consuming thing I have ever made!  They were a lot of fun to make, but it took me a long time to work out how to do them.  If you're good at modelling things out of fondant (or playdough) then you'll have no problems.  I, on the other hand, am spatially challenged so it took me a while to get the hang of it.  It took me 2 hours to make my first Kermit, Scooter and a ditched attempt at Miss Piggy.  Actually, it's all Miss Piggy's fault.  My first version of her turned out like a drag-queen.  So I left her until almost the end to make again, and the second version was much better.  I re-made Kermit at the end, and he only took 15 minutes to make the second time.  Beaker was probably the easiest one to make, closely followed by the chicken.  Animal is my favourite though!  Which one is yours?

 

-N-

AFL Birthday Cake

Here is the football cake that I made for my dad's 70th birthday.  He is an Eagles fan, and so, thanks to some inspiration from numerous cakes on the internet, I made this scarf out of fondant too.  I think that it would be easier if you used a pasta machine to roll the fondant out thinly, but I just used the old-fashioned method of a rolling pin :)

 

The cake is chocolate mud-cake, filled with chocolate ganache.

 

Happy Birthday Dad!

-N-