Christmas Cupcakes - How-to Make a Christmas Bauble Cupcake or Ball Ornament Cupcake

Christmas Cupcakes - I show you how to decorate a quick and easy Christmas Bauble Cupcake (or Ball Ornament Cupcake) on my KZbin channel: mackandnorm (Pink Cake Princess). Beautiful as a gift for someone ; )
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I am using a type of icing called fondant icing which is a type of sugar dough (used on wedding cakes). You can get it from your local supermarket or specialty cake decorating supplier. You can even make it. I usually buy it in white & colour it by using food dyes & mixing it through. There's a video on my channel on how to colour fondant too.
For darker colours like black, bright red & bright green I buy it pre coloured as it's harder to mix the darker colours. These colours in fondant are more sticky due to the dye content so I usually mix a little white fondant through it to make it easier to work with. It can be sticky to work with & changes depending on the weather in your area - it absorbs moisture from the air so can be sticky to work with but it normally dries when exposed to air so you need to wrap excess fondant up in cling wrap and then a zip lock bag.
It may be hard when you take it out of its packaging so you would need to knead it to make it more workable as it warms up and becomes softer and sticker in your hands. To stop the stickiness of fondant you can dust your surfaces with corn flour. It comes in many brands - I use Bakels Pettinence Icing but there are many other brands like Satin Ice and Orchards.
Tools & materials I used are listed below:
1 regular cupcake about 6cm wide
Butter cream to ice with
Off set spatular to ice with
Non stick place mat (or flat non stick chopping board)
Non stick small rolling pin
Corn flour bag for dusting (handkerchief with corn flour in it tied up with a rubber band)
Circle cutter (about 6cm wide) - can use a circle template and pointy craft knife if you don't have this
Palate knife and / or pointy craft knife
Water in small container
Small brush
Tweezers
Pink fondant icing
Red fondant icing
White fondant icing
Food dyes (if you are colouring your white fondant)
Cashous in blue silver colour - They are edible round little sugar ball decorations (I used Queen's brand in a pack from my local Woolworths) - If you can't get this you can use coloured fondant rolled up into little balls and use that instead.
Don't forget to check out the other Christmas cupcake how to videos that I will be uploading. Also subscribe for more and let me know which is your favourite Christmas cupcake tutorial. Have a great day! Andrea ; )