Minne Mouse Cupcakes

Minnie Mouse themed Cupcakes

I love the mouse and I have always loved the mouse! I really wanted to do a bachelorette event at Disneyland, so with many thanks to my coworker and her future husband to be, my girlfriends and I were able to go for a day! I wanted to do something special, so I made these Minnie Mouse inspired cupcakes for all the ladies to enjoy. 

Here we are posing in front of Disney's California Adventure.  "C" is for cupcake!

I knew I wanted to do a least two different designs. Everyone knows the famous red bow, but not that many non-Disney fans know about Minnie's cute hat! Last year, while walking around the park, I noticed a cute new hat that you could purchase and I was inspired then to create a Minnie Mouse cupcake!

Minnie used to wear a blue skirt with white polka dots as well!

The cupcakes were chocolate cake with espresso swiss meringue buttercream. I created my own cupcake wrappers.  I work for the craft company, Sizzix and we have an art room where we can use our machines for personal projects (I really want to buy a Big Shot Pro!).  I found this fantastic red and white polka dot paper at Michaels and I used my Stampin' Up Perfect Setting die to cut out the wrappers. The Minnie Mouse heads were created out of black fondant.  The red bow was created with red royal icing and my ribbon tip. After the royal icing hardened, I added a little ball of red fondant to complete the look. 

The hats were made out of yellow fondant.  I cut green flower wire to 1/2" pieces and laid them down on parchment paper.  I then took a piping bag with a #2 tip and white royal icing and created a flower.  After the royal icing dried, I pulled the flower carefully from the parchment paper and stuck the flowers onto the hat. 

Tyler did a fantastic job taking pictures outside our apartment complex, the photo below is my favorite because the hat came out perfectly!

And here is a picture of my sister and I with our Minnie ears!

Until next time!  Happy baking and decorating!

~Danielle

Oldie but Goodie! Hello Kitty Cake!

I just started getting into cake decorating about a year and a half ago, I started out doing simple things.  But when it came time for my good friend to celebrate her birthday last spring, I decided to try fondant sculpting.  Jenn and I have known each other since college, we both consider ourselves to be Twinkies (we are Asians who are white washed) and we both love Hello Kitty.  We even went to the Hello Kitty anniversary showcase in Los Angeles last Fall.  So of course, I had to make her a Hello Kitty cake.  Jenn also likes to surf and loves the color green (another thing we share in common), so I decided that I would make it a beach scene.  Hope you enjoy!

HK in her cute bathing suit sitting on a sandy beach

This is the plastic doll I modeled my HK after

Jenn cutting into her cake

And just to prove it to you, we really did go to the HK Anniversary and it was awesome!

Jenn and I <3 Twinkies!

Hope you enjoyed this oldie!
~Danielle