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Day 1 of 31 Days of Creative Inspiration.
As I explained in this post, during the next 31 Days, I plan to inspire you with photography (specifically 'everyday photojournalism' & travel), cake and cupcake decorating, crafts, favorite recipes and personal stories all meant to inspire you!
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Day 1 is all about
{Creating Your Own Cupcake Design}.
*I hope by sharing with you my process of making my own cupcake design, you will be inspired to try your own.*
I often decorate cakes and cupcakes. But I usually get my ideas from books or online.
A few weeks ago, however, I came up with a design of my very own. I needed cupcakes to send with my husband to his office for the Moon Festival. There is a legend about a rabbit who ends up in the moon. I wanted to create 'Rabbit in the Moon' cupcakes, so I searched for a rabbit I could make out of simple shapes.
For me the key is KEEPING IT SIMPLE.
This is the sketch that I made, using mainly circles.
The next step was making the moon to place the rabbit inside.
I frosted each cupcake with white frosting and then placed a circle cookie cutter, a little smaller than the top of the cupcake right on top of the cupcake to use as a stencil.
I sprinkled yellow sugar sprinkles directly inside and even flipped the cupcake upside down to get rid of the extra ones. The circle cooking cutter miraculously stayed in place. What could be simpler?
After much practice trying to reproduce a perfectly proportionate bunny body using frosting, I discovered a few things to make it come out right.
Start with the ears first. Since this is a picture of the back of the bunny, the ears would be furthest away and therefore on the 'bottom' of the picture.
Next would be the head.
To get perfect circles and a bunny that looks properly in proportion, I like to use stencils or guides when possible. I found that the frosting coupler from one of the many sets I have was perfect to mark my bunny head and body.
The coupler I had was made up of two perfectly sized circles. The smaller circle, I used as the stencil for the head. After I stamped that circle and filled it in with frosting, I flipped the coupler and used the larger circle as the stencil (or stamp) for the body.
I used just a couple of light marks in the sugar crystals as my guide to make the perfect circles. When I tried it without the guides, my circles were more like ovals and didn't have the right proportions for good looking bunny bodies. I'm just not that precise on my own. But there's no shame in that, is there?
And the final touch was an upside down white chocolate chip for the tail. I put it right on the little pointy thing that comes when the frosting bag is moved away. Bunnies don't have pointy things on their backs, but they do have white chocolate tails!
The best part of the white chocolate chips is that it adds dimension.
Now I created these cupcakes for the Moon Festival here in China (click here to see what other things we did to celebrate the moon festival), but there is no reason you couldn't use these for Easter or any other spring celebration. Don't be afraid to change the color of the moon and make it an Easter egg or just a cheerful circular background. (More spring and Easter cupcake ideas here.)
For all things CUPCAKE on this blog, click here.
Hopefully, you have seen how SIMPLE it can be to come up with your own cupcake decoration with a little thought and experimentation. Let me know if you decide to create your own design or even if you replicate this one, I'd love to see how they turn out!
Thanks for stopping by on Day 1 of 31 Days of Creative Inspiration. Tomorrow will be all about story telling.
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