diy birthday cupcake toppers

DIY First Birthday Cupcake Topper

Materials:

  • 24 cupcakes
  • 1 ~16 oz package gum paste or fondant
  • pink food color
  • blue food color
  • green food color
  • 4 cups white decorator icing
  • Wilton 1M decorator tip
  • pastry bag
  • 1 inch “1” fondant cutter
  • 1 inch circle fondant cutter
  • 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch daisy or rosette fondant cutter

Instructions:

Step 1: A day or two before you’re ready to decorate the cupcakes, color a large golf ball piece of gum paste pink by adding a few drops of food color. Pull and twist the gum paste to work the pink color through until it is evenly colored. Repeat the process to color a large golf ball size piece of gum paste blue, and another one green. Store the gum paste in a plastic bag when you’re not using it to keep it from drying out too quickly.

Step 2: Roll out the pink gum paste, and use the daisy or rosette fondant cutter to cut out 8 rosettes. Repeat the process to cut out 8 green, and 8 blue rosettes.

Step 3: Re-roll the pink gum paste and use the 1 inch “1” fondant cutter to cut out 8 pink 1’s. Repeat the process to make 8 blue and 8 green 1’s.

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Step 4: Roll out a large golf ball-sized piece of white gum paste. Use the 1 inch circle fondant cutter to cut out 24 one inch circles.

Step 5: Place a gum paste circle in the center of each rosette. If the rosette doesn’t stick, use a tiny drop of water to wet the center.

Step 6: Place a “1” in the center of each circle. Mix up the colors so the 1’s are a different color than the rosette.

Step 7: Carefully insert a toothpick into the bottom of each rosette and set the first birthday cupcake toppers aside to dry for a day.

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Step 8: Bake your cupcakes according to package directions, or purchase pre-baked cupcakes.

Step 9: Decorate the cupcakes with white icing. Add the icing to a pastry bag with a Wilton 1M large star tip on the end. Squeeze the bag gently while swirling the tip around in circles from the outside to the center of the cupcake.

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Step 10: Insert one first birthday cupcake topper into the top of each cupcake.

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