SHAUN THE SHEEP INSPIRED CUPCAKES

SHAUN THE SHEEP CUPCAKES 

Nowadays fanciful decorated cupcakes have become a trend for birthday celebrations. Compared to a normal cake, cupcakes are mess-free (from the cutting) and also easier to serve, especially when there are many guests.

My friend ordered these Shuan the Sheep cupcakes for her daughter's 3rd birthday

Initially I planned to create a fluffy looking sheep to achieve a more 3D effect. But end up instead of creating pieces of cloud-shaped bodies, I decided to use individual small circles which I cut using piping tips and stacked them to create the 3D fluffy effect. The outcome was so cute !

BABY SHOWER THEMED COOKIES

Baby Shower Cookies

Looking for ideas for baby shower personalised gift favour? Here's a simple suggestion: 2-shade iced cookies! 

These cookies were iced with royal icing and the great thing is that it only required 1 food colouring of your choice (e.g. blue for boy, pink for girl?) 

I love having different shape of cookies cutter which make them look more interesting.

Normally I would like to wrap them individually in cookies bag for gift favours (depending on the size, maybe two in a bag for smaller cookies). The cookies bag not only keep the cookies fresh but also prevent damage to the cookies during handling.

It is also nice to add a personalised tag to it. Something like these mickey mouse cookies (with fondant icing) which I recently did for my friend.

Recently I had made some baby shower themed fondant cake and cupcake topper. I realise it actually matches my baby shower cookies. Isn't it Cute!?

HAVE FUN WITH ROYAL ICING

ROYAL ICING (RI) is a smooth pure white icing which dries hard with a matt finish. It is made of simple ingredients like egg whites and icing sugar. However since it is not safe to eat raw eggs, I always use pasteurised egg white. RI is commonly used in cake and cookie decorations, and can also be use as a "glue" for sticking deco. As RI is pure white in colour, it can be easily tinted with food colouring to create colourful arts.

LEGO ICED COOKIES

I like to ice my chocolate cookies with sweet RI, to complement the not-so-sweet chocolate cookies. The above Lego themed cookies was specially made for my nephew, Leo (his name when piped on cookie, actually resembled "Lego" when spelled wrongly.. haha) - 7th birthday Lego themed party coming!

EIFFEL TOWER made with icing sugar

Since RI dried hard, we can actually build a sculpture out of it. Photo above showing my favourite Eiffel Tower made for one of my friends which is completely edible! So amazing isn't it! But be careful as it is fragile!

MICKEY MOUSE COOKIES

You can get started now with the below recipe to whip out some RI, and have your kids to join in the fun for some cookies deco and bonding session!

Royal Icing Recipe



Ingredients

• 2egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 500g icing sugar
• lemon juice or water (optional)

Directions

1. In a large stainless steel bowl, heat up the egg whites with boiling water, placing a candy thermometer in it. Lightly whisk while heating the egg white to 73 degree Celsius.

2.Once it reaches 73 degree Celsius, remove from the heat and start whisking at high speed using a handheld mixer until soft peak.

3. Start adding icing sugar 1 cup at a time, until desired consistency (usually I will use up all the icing sugar as I like to make it stiffer. In the event if I require a flooding consistency, I will add a few teaspoons of water or lemon juice).

4. Add vanilla extract. (You may choose to add other flavouring)

5. Scope into different bowls for mixing different colours. Transfer to zip-lock or piping bag to decorate. Extra icing store in air tight container in refrigerator for up to 1 week.  

Enjoy! :)