Snowflake Cupcakes How-To

You Will Need:

• Your favorite cupcake recipe; Spice or Ginger Cupcakes work nicely.
• 1 box Pre-rolled white fondant or Fondant Mix
• Medium (3"-4") Snowflake Cookie Cutter
• Pastillage Glitter Snowflakes Set or Sugar White Snowflakes Set or Snowflake Fondant Plunger
• Country Blue Food Coloring
• 4 mm Silver Dragees
• Muffin Cups
• Additional icing of your choice for attaching fondant to cupcake
• Parchment Paper

Instructions:

1. Bake your favorite cupcake recipe. Cool as directed.
2. While cooling, prepare the fondant. Dye the pre-rolled fondant with food coloring. Knead in a few drops of food color at a time to get the desired color.
3. Once the fondant is dyed to the color you want, roll it out to 1/8" - 1/4" thick onto parchment paper. Cut out snowflake shapes with the cookie cutter. Make sure you have enough shapes for the number of cupcakes you baked. Cover the shapes on parchment with plastic wrap to prevent them from drying out.
4. Frost the middle of each cupcake with the icing of your choice and affix the fondant shapes to the top, making sure the tips of the snowflakes fall to the side of the cupcake.
5. Use additional icing to affix the pastillage or sugar snowflakes to the top of each cupcake. Add 1-3 sugar shapes per cupcake OR cut out fondant snowflake shapes with the snowflake fondant plunger. Attach them to the top of each cupcake with additional icing.
6. Add dragees or sanding sugar to each cupcake if you desire.
7. Store in an airtight container until the cupcakes are served.