Faff Insects
Cupcakes adorned with fondant butterflies and ladybugs, featuring charming and playful designs.
Ingredients
Cupcakes (lemon or basic vanilla flavor, see p.26 or p.18)
1 batch
Buttercream frosting (see p.16)
1 batch
Fondant
golf ball-sized portion
Gel food coloring
to taste
Cornstarch (for dusting)
to taste
Edible glue
to taste
Royal icing (see p.16)
1 tbsp
Colored sugar pearls (optional)
to taste
Instructions
1
Prepare the cupcakes
Bake the cupcakes according to your chosen recipe and let them cool. Prepare the frosting and tint it as desired. Cover the cakes and let them dry.
2
Make the butterflies
Tint a portion of the fondant and knead until the color is even. Dust the work surface with cornstarch and roll out the fondant to about 3 mm thick. Cut out butterfly shapes and let them dry for about 30 minutes.
3
Make the ladybugs
Tint a portion of the fondant red and a tiny portion black. Shape the red fondant into a body and attach a small flat black piece as the face at one end. Roll two thin black strips for the wing edges and make tiny balls for the spots. Use a toothpick to score markings on the face and use white fondant for the antennae.
4
Assemble the ladybugs
Use edible glue to attach the ladybug to the cupcake. Pipe small flowers around it with royal icing as decoration.
5
Assemble the butterflies
Use edible glue to attach the butterfly to the cupcake. Tint the royal icing in several colors and pipe patterns onto the butterfly wings with a fine tip. Add sugar pearls as desired. You can also pipe dots around the edge of the cupcake and place sugar pearls on them.
