Chocolate Cupcakes with Flood Icing Butterflies
Posted on April 5th, 2009 in Cupcakes
Besides flooding cookies with royal icing, I’m starting to play around with flooding on parchment paper and using the results as decorations for cupcakes etc.
Peggy Porschen’s book, Beautiful Cakes
Beautiful, beautiful work!
Love these cupcakes – how did you make the butterflies?
they look very sweet
Thanks y’all!
Kerri, I used royal icing and piped it onto parchment paper. The design sits under the parchment so that all you need to do is trace it.
The idea and butterfly images are from Peggy Porschen’s book… I have a link up above to the book on amazon.
How did you get the wings to be three dimensional? Did you wait for them to dry for a while and then place them in the eggcarton to continue drying what dryness level do you start having them bend to the shape you want? Thanks
Elizabeth; After the wings are dry (see above) fold a piece of cardboard (prop up so that holds the shape you want for the butterfly), put a folded piece of parchment on top of that cardboard, pipe a bead of icing for the butterfly body in the crease, and set the wings in place into the icing. Let the body dry.
p.s. It’s hard to explain the butterflies; f.y.i. I found the how to in Peggy Porschen’s book easy to follow because there were pictures with the instructions.