New Challenge from Hello, Cupcake! Club
New challenge from Hello, Cupcake! ClubTM
Create a statuette cupcake just in time for awards season!
In our book Hello, Cupcake! we use fun cupcaking techniques that can help you design a statuette for your favorite awards ceremony. Below, check out the ones we made for our special friends at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
For our statuettes we used frosting to add a donut to the top of a cupcake and dipped it in melted chocolate frosting. We then inserted a wafer cookie with pretzels attached for the arms, a round candy for the head, and a small cookie for the shield. We dipped the statuette in melted yellow frosting and added yellow glitter sugar. The final step was making the name plates for our award winners.
There are lots of ways to make adorable statuettes, and they make great special desserts for any occasion from watching your favorite awards show to rewarding the kids or your friends for their special efforts in school, athletics, or work.
For this challenge use techniques from Hello, Cupcake! Irresistibly playful creations anyone can make or come up with your own fun ideas to create an award statuette. Just post your awards-cupcakes to the Hello Cupcake Flickr page and let us see the winners.
Show us your best award cupcake ideas!
Happy cupcaking,
Alan and Karen
I'm desperately in need of a Statue of Liberty cake/cupcake idea. Any suggestions? My 5yo is obsessed with the SofL and has a birthday coming up in April.
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Wow, that's a tough one. I would try to assemble it like our Nutcrackers in Hello, Cupcake!. You could use one cupcake for the face and create a crown from green spice drops by pressing them together to make a big green sheet and cutting out the crown (see the Princess Party Cupcakes). Make the facial features from candy. Then frost the rest of the cupcakes with a swirly frosting to make the draped gown. Maybe you could make the book out of green fruit chews. Hope that helps, let us know how it turns out.
All the best and...
Keep on cupcaking,
Alan and Karen
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I made the "popcorn" cupcakes yesterday. They would be great for an Academy Award Party. Here's my blog entry: http://katydiddys.blogspot.com/2009/02/movie-night.html
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your cupcake blog is AWESOME
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My kids and I have really enjoyed your book! Today I made the baby shower cupcakes and the slumber party cupcakes (as babies) for a friend's baby shower.
My kids have really enjoyed looking at the pictures in the book and also enjoyed making the cupcakes themselves!
I put pictures on my blog if you're interested in seeing how they turned out. : )
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