Hasn’t every girl dreamed that she would one day be a princess?
This week, I had the pleasure of opening up my fondant again to jump head first into the land of fairy tales! Princess, princes, magic wands, castles, and magic. What more could a four year old girl want for her fourth birthday? It was up to me to make it happen (boy, does that ever make me sound important). When I actually realized what I had signed on for, a little panic ripped through me . . . not going to lie about that one! After hours of searching Flickr (check out CCC profile out here), I finally had enough inspiration to get started.
The birthday girl requested Funfetti with Raspberry Cream Icing . . . mmmm . . . too bad one wasn’t for me 🙁
Here is the recipe for the Homemade Funfetti.
I used a different type of sprinkles for these cupcakes than I did in the original recipe that I made. I would stick with the long oblong sprinkles, over these small little ball sprinkles, as these ones coloured the batter. Also, I think they might have made the cupcake a little bit crunchier than necessary . . . I’ll have to ask the birthday girl to figure that one out!
The princess' age
I got started in the morning, working with the fondant shapes that I wanted for this design.
The princess' castles
The princess' wands
No princess is complete with out her crown!
The princess' crowns
Like my improvising with the spice bottles? Can you tell that I’m new and don’t have all the tools yet? Thank goodness I’m resourceful. I needed something to shape the crown. If you’re a fondant expert, please let me know how you’re REALLY supposed to do this!
On to the icing . . .
Raspberry Cream Icing
1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of raspberries (fresh or frozen) If using frozen, make sure they are thawed.
4 cups of icing sugar
1 tsp of vanilla
1-2 tbsp milk (if needed)
Cream butter and raspberries in a stand mixture. Add one cup of icing at a time. Mixing in-between cup additions. Add vanilla, and mix. If the icing is too thick at this point, add one to two tablespoons of milk to thin.
Time to add the fondant! Abracadabra!
Thanks everybody! I felt really good about these ones and it’s nice to hear that you think they looked good 🙂 xo
reading your blog makes me very hungry – for sweets! that raspberry icing looks divine! and the work that you put into the fondant is amazing, nice job!
Trying to make you hungry for sweets is part of my plan! Then you will want me to bake something for you, and I will have a REAL purpose to bake!
These are gorgeous, Jenn! Great job, yet again. What a genius concept. The awesomeness of fondant with the tastiness of icing 🙂
These cupcakes were amazing! Callie loved the raspberry icing and all of the fondant decorations. She says the crowns were her favourite!
ummm…i think i would like these for my birthday – wow this look yummy and way toooo cute! awesome job jenn!