Even more Cupcakes!
I making pretty progress making these cupcakes! And happily, the icing came in the mail!! So I was able to ice the cupcake bases I've already done, in addition to the yellow ones too. But here is the new way of how I dry the cupcakes after painting and glossing:
The skewers in them are so useful to prop them up with styrofoam ^_^ This was just after a layer of base white paint:
This is a much neater way to get them painted, before there would be flakes of white paint sticking to whatever surface I left them on to dry. Continuing on, here are the blue and green cupcakes iced!
The colour scheme for them work well!
I've gotten better at making the swirls too.
I really like this icing, it dries in a day, and it looks a bit chalky, which looks realistic to me, and it pipes easily if a bit of water is added if it's too stiff. Plus, there's actually half of the icing left over after piping 20 of each colour, perhaps I can make 10 or 15 more? By the end of the night, I had also finished painting and piping the yellow ones:
The yellpw ones look so cheerful.
A closer look at the army of yellow cupcakes!
It's a bit difficult to pipe the icing around the skewer, but it's the only way I can do it. Since If I pipe the icing, and then stuck the skewer in, there's no neat way to secure it with glue, plus it may crack the icing if I force the skewer through.
I also finished painting and glossing the chocolate cupcake bases, and started on the white ones:
I decided to use the gold and silver paint for the white cupcakes, since there aren't any contrasting white shades, besides cream and darker cream - which may end up yellow looking.
So shiny!
I quite like how the chocolate ones look, it looks like it can come from a confectioner's shop!
^_^
The skewers in them are so useful to prop them up with styrofoam ^_^ This was just after a layer of base white paint:
This is a much neater way to get them painted, before there would be flakes of white paint sticking to whatever surface I left them on to dry. Continuing on, here are the blue and green cupcakes iced!
The colour scheme for them work well!
I've gotten better at making the swirls too.
I really like this icing, it dries in a day, and it looks a bit chalky, which looks realistic to me, and it pipes easily if a bit of water is added if it's too stiff. Plus, there's actually half of the icing left over after piping 20 of each colour, perhaps I can make 10 or 15 more? By the end of the night, I had also finished painting and piping the yellow ones:
The yellpw ones look so cheerful.
A closer look at the army of yellow cupcakes!
It's a bit difficult to pipe the icing around the skewer, but it's the only way I can do it. Since If I pipe the icing, and then stuck the skewer in, there's no neat way to secure it with glue, plus it may crack the icing if I force the skewer through.
I also finished painting and glossing the chocolate cupcake bases, and started on the white ones:
I decided to use the gold and silver paint for the white cupcakes, since there aren't any contrasting white shades, besides cream and darker cream - which may end up yellow looking.
So shiny!
I quite like how the chocolate ones look, it looks like it can come from a confectioner's shop!
^_^