Happy 6th Birthday to my wonderful angel-muffin.
I decided to make Hello Kitty cupcakes for her class. Her birthday is today, Monday March 1 and she will be in school most of the day. I opted for boxed cake mix because it is quick and easy. I also opted for premade frosting as well, so I could try a new trick I learned off the internet.
I took the icing, tinted it pink, and microwaved it for 5 seconds, took it out stirred it and microwaved it another 5 seconds. This made the premade icing very runny. We took the cupcakes and bobbed them up and down in the icing (see Isabel below.)
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We then set them on wax paper to set. Look how pretty they look and how smooth.
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We then used royal icing to outline some Hello Kitty head shapes onto the icing. Do not use the thinner "flooding" consistency to fill or flood them in; too runny. We used the same icing we used for the outlines to fill them in.
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After they dried, I used some black royal icing to make the eyes and whiskers. The nose and bows were made using
Food Color pens.
Voila! Hello Kitty Cupcakes.
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UPDATE: We are not allowed to bring home baked goods to school.
What a sad, sad world.
My co-workers and family will have to enjoy these labors of love my daughter and I made. We ended up buying premade ones from Wal-mart. :(