Halloween mummy cupcakes
The mummy
Try these two different ways to use your fondant for your next cupcake project.
Ingredients
Pettinice
- Black
- White
- Orange
Other
- Cupcakes
- Bakels Chocolate Truffle
Colour mixing your fondant is great way of getting different shades easily.
Directions
- Spread Bakels chocolate truffle on your cupcake.
- Roll out Black Pettinice and use a circle cutter approximately same size as the cupcake and cut.
- Roll a small ball of White Pettinice and place in a microwave safe container. Heat for 5 to 10 seconds, depending on your microwave wattage.
- Fondant will double in size quickly, so be ready to turn microwave off when figuring out your timing for the first attempt CAUTION: Fondant will be very hot! Using a tea towel or oven mitt, carefully remove container from microwave.
- Add a teaspoon at a time of cold water and mix together quickly. Do not handle it with your bare fingers. See photo for consistency.
- Spoon mixture into a piping bag, or small zip-lock bag. Cut the tip and pipe quickly back and forth across cupcake as shown.
- Roll two small Orange Pettinice balls and place for the eyes.
- Allow fondant to completely dry - depending on weather and how much water you used, this may need to be overnight.
Roll a small circle of Black Pettinice and cut to the size of your cupcake top.
Put a little ganache, buttercream or Bakels Truffle on your cupcake and cover with your fondant disk.
Microwave a small ball of Pettinice with a little bit of water
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Add a teaspoon at a time of cold water and mix together quickly. Do not handle it with your bare fingers.
Spoon mixture into a piping bag, or small zip-lock bag. Cut the tip and pipe quickly back and forth across cupcake as shown.
Look at all the colour possibilities you can create with just a pack of orange and blue Pettinice!
Roll two small Orange Pettinice balls and place for th
Another option is to skip the black fondant disk and pipe directly onto your icing. We hope you enjoy another way to play with Pettinice!
Nina Blackburn owns Make Pretty Cakes in Auckland, New Zealand and is a proud Pettinice Ambassador. She is a confessed cake-a-holic who not only enjoys creating cakes, but also hosting and teaching cake decorating classes.
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