Shopkins Cotton Candy Cupcakes

My daughter was turning 6 and decided she wanted to bring Shopkins cupcakes to her class to celebrate. So I set about seeing what I could come up with. My first plan was a disaster, but plan B worked out nicely :). I decided to create Royal Icing Shopkins Cupcake Toppers .

Here’s how I did it……

Recommended tools to use to make this fast & easy:

Printout to use as a template

Wax Paper

Etching tool (looks like an inch long pick with a long handle)

Separate pour bottles (one for each color needed of flood consistency icing, I used 6)

Separate icing bags, disposable works great (one for each color needed of piping consistency icing, I used 6)

?Icing Bag Securers?

 

First, I baked up a delicious batch of cotton candy cupcakes topped with cotton candy icing. Next, I decided just to use two Shopkins designs (donut and cupcake) and found pictures of the ones I wanted online to print out and use as templates. One batch of royal icing is plenty for 24 cupcakes (I probably only used 1/2 of a batch). I watched several tutorials on “flood icing” (even a few “flood iced” Shopkins tutorials. All the tutorials I saw were done on cookies but I just wanted to make the sugar topping :). So, I used some of the tips and came up with some cupcake toppers. Make the eyes “soft set” first. Meaning, make a small blob of white icing (flood consistency) and immediately did a smaller blob of either pink or blue icing, (depending on which Shopkin I was making), also flood consistency, on top of the white, then a small dab of black for the pupil. This allowed the two colors to “flow” into the white, making it appear as one “eyeball” :). Allow eyes to dry for 30 min. before adding flood icing around them.

For the cupcake: using your bags of piping consistency icing, outline the body of the cupcake in yellow & the icing top in blue (be sure to outline the four individual “swirls” if you want the swirls to stand out) while waiting for the eyes to dry. You can also fill in two swirls (not touching, such as first and third swirls) while eyes are drying. Allow these to harden (around 10 min.) then flood the remaining two swirls. After the eyes have dried, flood the cupcake body with yellow, use the etching tool (or a toothpick) to get the icing into all the corners. Allow to harden then add the yellow crown, pink bow, mouth and eyebrows.

For the donut: using your bags of light brown and pink piping consistency icing, outline pink icing part of the donut. Since I used real rainbow sprinkles, I added these right away, pressing them in slightly. Allow to dry a few minutes (pretty much by the time you finish flooding the last pink portion, you can start at the beginning donut), then flood the brown areas. Allow to dry completely then add the mouth and eyebrows (and “sprinkles” if you decide to pipe these instead).