Birthday Cupcake Cookies (Tutorial)

February 21, 2012 Pam Sneed

In honor of CookieCrazie's birthday week celebration.......

a tutorial on making birthday cupcake cookies. :)

You'll need 10 second icing in at least two different colors.

If you want to do a pattern on the "wrapper", you'll need additional colors.

As always, I used a #2 round tip to outline and a #4 to flood.

Outline the wrapper......

Without touching the wet wrapper outline, I also outlined the frosting top too.

Dry outlines with heat gun.

Fill in the wrapper......including pattern and allow to dry. Start on the top by adding the middle of the icing layers and let it dry.

Then fill in the other two layers.

Notice that I changed my mind midstream and removed

the outline below the top curly Q.

I decided it would look better if that whole thing was just one layer.

Once the wrappers have dried for about 1 hr,

you can add some texture lines to them.

I used my cake tester from Pampered chef.....

but you can use any food safe object that will add

some "folds" to your cupcake wrappers.

Lay your tool down gently on the icing and push enough to indent it.

With the polka and striped patterns....it was really hard to photograph the fold texturing.

So I also photographed one of my plain wrappers so you could see the folds much more clearly.

I love these happy little cupcakes.

I needed to see happy cupcakes today. :)

The confetti is flying at CookieCrazie. haha