I asked my son if he wanted a cake or cupcakes for his birthday and he said he wanted cupcakes. You would think that cupcakes are easier to make than an actual cake, but that's not always the case. It's true if you're making a small batch, like one recipe. When you make reveral recipes worth of cupcakes, it increases the time to decorate significantly since you have to decorate each one separately. I took a beating with the stein cupcakes because they were just so labor intensive. I personally like cupcakes, but I don't really care for decorating them.
Since the boys are in to Skylanders and the things that my son wanted the most for his birthday were a few skylander figures, I figured I would tie that in to the cupcakes. Skylander figures are broken up into eight elements. They are earth, fire, wind, undead, tech, water, magic and life. I decided to put the element symbols on the top of the cupcakes. I ended up with 22 cupcakes, so most of the symbols were put on three cupcakes and a couple of them were only on two.
I LOVE THESE!! My 6 yr old is having a skylander party tomorrow & there are NO skylnder things anywhere in stores so I have to make something! Thanks for the idea! Did you had do all the elements on the cupcakes?? How did you get such thin lines on the magic element? And fire? And even the Life ones are so amazing! I am no artist and I think the only one I'll be good at is the air element! LoL
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~Jenn
It's WAY late to reply and do any good, but I'll reply anyway. The thin lines are just a lack of icing. I piped around small areas and just let the blue show through. I cleaned the edges a little bit with a toothpick. However, there are icing tips that will do lines that small. I have a couple. You need really thin icing to use them though, or the icing just won't come out the tiny hole.
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lol