Halloween pumpkin cupcakes
Turn your cupcakes into pumpkins with these cute cupcakes with a twist!
- Create fall shades using Pettinice Blue and Orange
Bake a batch of cupcakes and have fun with these spooky Halloween cupcakes with a twist! This is such a fun project to share with the kids!
Colour mixing your fondant is great way of getting different shades easily.
Download a printable PDF of all the cupcake projects by clicking here.
Pettinice
- Blue
- Orange
Other
- Cupcakes
- Bakels Chocolate Truffle
Directions
- Remove cupcake from wrapper and spread Bakels chocolate truffle all over.
- Use a kebab stick to help keep your cupcake from sliding about.
- Pop into the fridge to firm up for at least 10 minutes.
- Roll out Orange Pettinice and cover your cupcake.
- Use your kebab stick to indent segments for your pumpkin.
- Mix orange and blue Pettinice fondant for the stem.
- Roll into a little sausage and create texture by embossing lines with a blade as shown.
- Use a tiny bit of water to secure your pumpkin stem in place.
Remove the cupcake case
Use a skewer to help you keep the cupcake still while you coat in ganache or buttercream.
You don't need to smooth it perfectly.
Roll out your orange Pettinice
Cover your cupcake
Trim the excess
Use a toothpick to emboss pumpkin segments
Be sure to push the segment details in at the bottom.
Combine a little bit of black or brown Pettinice to your orange to create the stem.
Use a little bit of water to stick the stem to the top.
Look at all the colour possibilities you can create with just a pack of orange and blue Pettinice!
Roll your colours into sausages and squish them together.
Marble Blue and Orange for Pettinice for these shades.
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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