This Party is For The Dogs! Pupcakes and All.
Keep on Cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
Posted by hellocupcakeblog at 3/30/2009 4:09 PM 
Categories: Funny Faces Cupcakes,Our Readers' Cupcakes,Animal Cupcakes
Categories: Funny Faces Cupcakes,Our Readers' Cupcakes,Animal Cupcakes
Very cute presentation idea!
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I recently made your penguin cupcakes! SO FUN! Thank you for making your book, I love it!
http://jennifersmall.tumblr.com/post/91408447/i-made-penguin-cupcakes
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Thanks Jen. Send us photos of your penguins, we would love to see them.
Keep on cupcaking,
Alan and Karen
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The topper is Fancy Nancy, the lead character in a series of popular early reading books by Jane O'Connor.
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Glad you read how much we love your design. And we love Fancy Nancy too.
Alan and Karen
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I can't seem to get the bag cut correctly to make the "fur" look any suggestions ?
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Hmmm, first I trust you are using a freezer weight zip lock bag. Lighter weight bags just won't have the heft to shape the frosting. Also it is inportant for the frosting to be firm. We use canned frosting and look for a brand that is nice and firm like Duncan Hines Classic. Next, it helps to reinforce the bag with transparent tape (see page 13 to 15 in Hello, Cupcake!). For the projects with fur in Hello, Cupcake! we used an M-shaped cut. It should be 2 smal v-shaped cuts about 1/8th inch each. Anchor the tip against the cupcake before squeezing, squeeze out a small dot, and then stop squeezing as you pull away from the cupcake. By making sure you are anchored first and stopping the squeezing before you pull away you should form small pretty peaks of frosting. You can control the size of the peaks by how big a dot you squeeze before pulling away.
Let us know how that works for you and send us some photos of your progress. We would love to see what you are doing.
Happy cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
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I'm having a problem with 'slippery" frosting?! I used Duncan Hines Classic and made the cutest pupcakes just like your picture. I had them in a box to deliver (I made them in the morning and was going to take them in the afternoon)and before I left, thank goodness I looked at them because the heads had slid off! I have had more success with the old fashioned Wilton buttercream frosting recipe but it is so time consuming. When I first ran across your book I was delighted because it saved so much time. Is it something I am doing wrong, and what can I do to correct it when I follow your instructions to the letter? Thanks! Jan Helm
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Heat and humidity can cause a lot of grief with cupcake decorations. We try to assemble most cupcakes as close to serving them as possible. Otherwise canned frosting tends to firm up fairly quickly, so if we have a design that will stay put, letting them sit for a few hours can also help keeps things in place.
All the best,
Alan and Karen
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