Dummy CupCakes!

Have you ever wanted to make cute little cupcakes, but;

Don’t want to have to deal with eating them. 

Don’t want them to go bad.

Want to show some cute little toppers but not have to bake

Well I have a solution for you! I am calling this dummy cupcakes!

You will need:

Cupcake pan

Great Stuff, Gaps and cracks

Caulk

Flour

Acrylic craft Paint

Cupcake liners

Icing tips wilton 2D

Pastry bag

Floral/vase rocks.

If you would like these to double as a paper weight

Use plaster of Paris mixed according to directions on package. Add about ½” in the cupcake liner and substitute how much of the Great Stuff because it rising.

And stuff to decorate!

Puffy paint, beads, glitter, sequins, Have fun

Line your cupcake pan with the liners.

This is where you would add the plaster of Paris in the cupcake, and wait for it to dry!

I added a few of the floral rocks because Wal-Mart at 3 am didn’t have plaster of Paris and I didn’t want to wait to go to Joann’s.

Fill with the foam about halfway try to squirt it in slow, it will rise more of an even dome like a real cupcake.

 If you added the plaster you will have to gauge how much foam to add.

And now you wait!

In about an hour your cupcakes will be ready to frost.

For your icing

In this image I used icing colors because I wanted to see if it would work. I also hadn’t added the flour so it didn’t stay as firm.

Mix your caulk in to a dish, add acrylic paint to desired color mixing well. This will cause it to dry better, if you’re worried it wont be as shiny, you can mix in some glitter, or some perfect pearls, or there is a paint shimmer additive for acrylic paints.

You will need to add flour to thicken it up.

Tip when adding flour to the caulk to stiffen it; it will take a lot longer to dry hard.

those two had the flour added but no tip nor color added. 

this one has no flour so you can see how droopy they got, they also had icing colors rather than paint, it worked ok but they cost more. 

Put icing in to prepared pastry bag with tip. And pipe over the whole top of the cupcake.  I used a 2D tip from wilton, you can opt to paint the top of your cupcake to make it chocolate or strawberry, I covered the whole top do it didn’t matter if it was the foam color.

Add your topper and your done!

The foam makes it easy to poke your topper in to.

Wa-La

A cupcake that never goes bad! Nor the calories!

For my topper I used the Flag Heart Bear from the Bon Voyage Bears set Available from Kadoodle Bug Designs.

The finished topper is about 3.6” tall I will share a video on how I assemble my toppers in a few days, after finals this week!

Have A Fabulous Week Ya’ll and see you Tuesday!