Cupcake Delivery

So yesterday I got an order for a dozen cupcakes for a 30th birthday party! So I set to work, I bought a French Vanilla cake mix and mixed in some red food coloring to get a pink color, I divided the batter and made one batter lighter than the other! I decorated those cupcakes with Dutch Cocoa Chocolate Frosting and sprinkled some edible shimmer dust onto it. Then I started making my marshmallow homemade fondant with a recipe taken from http://www.megzcakes.ca

Marshmallow Fondant Recipe:

• 1 package miniature marshmallows

• 2 tablespoons water

• 2 cups  sifted icing sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• Shortening (for greasing)

Instructions:

• In a large plastic or glass bowl, grease sides and bottom with shortening and add package of marshmallows.
• Sprinkle water over top of marshmallows.
• Put bowl in microwave for 30 second increments, stirring marshmallows after each increment until melted.
• Stir in 1 cup sifted icing sugar with greased spatula.
• Have a moderate layer of sifted icing sugar laid out on a clean flat surface.
• Pour marshmallow onto icing sugar and again add 1 cup sifted icing sugar.
• Grease your hands with shortening then powder them with icing sugar.
• Knead marshmallow until icing sugar is completely mixed in and consistency is close to rolling.
• Cover in plastic wrap and put into fridge for about an hour.
• Once cooled, to make fondant ready to roll let it come to room temperature again or put it back in the microwave uncovered for about 15 seconds or so

• You will have to knead fondant again before rolling. If you want to add colour, use the gel colours and add a little bit at a time to get the shade you prefer, knead until colour is completely solid throughout the fondant. 

I added the red food colouring to get a pink color to the fondant, I then used my cookie cutters and cut out some fondant tulip flowers.

After cutting them out and placing them in the refrigerator to chill, I sprinkled my cupcakes with some edible shimmer dust :)

This is how they came out:

With my left over batter, I added some red and blue food colours to make a purple colour, I then stacked them onto lollipop sticks to make cupcake kabobs :)