Sugar paste toppers?

[mydearestjoanne]

I am making my friend an array of ocean-themed cupcakes for her birthday. my idea is to make "waves" out of blue and white buttercream frosting and to use sea critter toppers. i found some on ebay that i absolutely adore, but they are rather pricey, and in australia. does anyone know where i might be able to buy something like these either online

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[the_only_babbs]

Cost Plus World Market sometimes has marzipan creatures.

You could also make candy molds in the shape of fish and shells. :)

[turkelton]

fondant is kind of like cake clay. you should get some fondant in the color you want (or just get white and food color it) and mold little creatures.

[plz_letsrunaway]

some thing else you could do, is print out pictures from the internet or something, and then stick them on tooth picks? give it a comical sort of feel, rather then realistic?

i do that during the holidays. usually halloween, it involves cut outs of various monsters, that get stuck into cupcakes that look like dirt mounds for zombies and what not!

[lucyloveslave]

what about gummy fish? go to a candy store. I think I have seen chocolate seashells, as well.

[belfrey]

last month we had a luau for my daughter's birthday. i did one batch of cupcakes with blue frosting "waves" on top, and one batch with crushed up cookies for "sand". the "sandy" cupcakes had white chocolate shells that i had made in advance.
you can see them all here in my post from last month. ^_^