First, I did carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. They smelled so good coming out of the oven and I cannot wait to stuff my face with them tomorrow! I used purple spray food coloring to give the white icing some color. Coming out it smelled like nail polish remover. No joke. My daughter, Autumn, cut out the flowers with cookie cutters. I then used the ball tool to thin the petals a bit. We "painted" the flowers with pink sparkle dust and I added the candy pearls (that's what I call them anyway!) to the middle of the flowers. I used a very small amount of icing as "glue."
End result:
The next batch we did was vanilla cake with chocolate chips and chocolate icing. Because the color of chocolate isn't very Easter-y, I thought I would cut out fondant circles to cover the whole top of the cupcake. This turned out to be messy, and did not look very good. I gave Autumn 4 fondant covered cupcakes to do whatever she wanted with. (She's 10yrs old btw.) She used the big flower cut out and put some huge white flowers onto the fondant. She also used the candy pearls for the middle.
Because the fondant circles weren't working out too well I tried a different approach. I took the paper cups off 3 cupcakes and thought I'd cover the whole entire cupcake with fondant. A mini cake! This was a bad idea. But it was too late. Oh well. I made 3 lilies for 3 cupcakes. They turned out pretty awesome. I also used some of the pink sparkle dust on them, but very little.
I then gave up on the fondant and decided that chocolate was indeed an Easter color. I used tiny yellow flowers cut out from fondant and added the candy pearls.
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