Awhile back someone my mother-in-law works with asked me to make caterpillar themed cupcakes for her daughter's baby shower. Making a tasty cupcake was no problem, but decorating and making a beautiful caterpillar cupcake on the other hand would be challenging...or so I thought. Coming up with the concept was harder then putting it all together. I googled caterpillar cupcake ideas and came up with nothing...well accept people lining cupcakes up in a line and icing them in different colors and making a head out of fondant on the first cupcake. Not exactly what I was looking for. So that's when I thought I would try out some fondant. So I bought baby pink and baby green fondant. I took a hunk of fondant and started rolling balls. I used three balls for the body and one for the head. Because the caterpillar would be anchored on the icing I didn't need to worry about gluing the fondant balls together. For the head I placed a ball the same size as the rest of the balls directly on top of the first ball. You can use a little bit of buttercream icing to hold the head in place or you can use a tiny bit of gum glue (take a pea size amount of gum paste and dissolve it in about 1 tablespoon of warm water). This will hold fondant pieces together. I then took candy eyeballs and glued them on with a touch of butter cream icing. Lastly I took a flower stamen and cut it down and made two antennae for each caterpillar. I made half the caterpillars pink and half green. Then I iced the cupcakes the same way, half green and half pink with wilton's buttercream recipe that I previously posted. I made my favorite chocolate cake recipe for the chocolate cupcakes...not my recipe but it's delicious and half white cupcakes...again not my recipe. Then I put them all together on my cupcake stand and I think they turned out pretty nice looking.
Although some of the design showed through for the cupcake liners I still recommend using glassine or grease-free cupcake liners so that your design is guaranteed to show up. These cupcakes were made in standard size cupcake liners.
I hope this post gets your creative juices flowing for your next baby shower or kids birthday. Enjoy!
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