Bow Tie Cupcakes
Father's Day is right around the corner and these bow tie cupcakes are the perfect way to honor your dad or any special father figure in your life.
Servings 12 Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 12 vanilla cupcakes cake mix or homemade
- ½ stick unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
- 4-6 oz. white fondant
- 2-3 oz. blue fondant
- Green decorating frosting
- One circular cookie cutter about 2 inches in diameter
- One toothpick
Instructions
- Scoop your buttercream into a piping bag with a round icing tip attached. Set aside.
- Roll out your white fondant with a rolling pin so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Using your cookie cutter, cut out 12 circles out of your white fondant.
- Add some buttercream to the back of your white fondant circles. Place one on the center of each cupcake.
- To make the fondant bowties: for one bowtie
- roll out 2 spheres from your blue fondant, about ½ an inch in size.
- Slightly flatten each fondant sphere and shape it into a teardrop.
- Place them side by side, with the points facing each other.
- Take a small piece of blue fondant and flatten it out. Place it in the center, between both of your teardrop shapes.
- Use your toothpick to score two horizontal lines on each side of the bowtie.
- Use your toothpick to spread some buttercream on the back of your bowtie. Place one on the center of each cupcake.
- Attach Wilton tip #4 to your green decorating frosting. Frost two “buttons” on each of your cupcakes. Serve and enjoy!
Video
Nutrition
Serving: 1g