Hello Kitty cupcakes

In line with Milla's Hello Kitty themed birthday party, we (...well, she really...) wanted to make Hello Kitty cupcakes - so to work we went! Because we were having guests with gluten allergy, we just bought a glutenfree cupcake-mix from the health section in the supermarket, and it was yummy! The tricky bit would be how to decorate them.

The first thing we did was to make fondant icing, and we found the recipe here. It was quite easy to make it, and then we divided the icing into batches of the different colours we needed. We used Wilton food colouring from Baking Pleasures to colour the icing.

For the cupcake toppers, we first made Hello Kitty's head out of the plain, white fondant icing. We used Hello Kitty-cookie cutter presses, sourced from eBay, to cut them out.

Then we prepared the bows. We made that out of our red icing, and we used a silicon mould from Etsy to press them out.

We dusted the mould lightly with icing sugar and then filled it with our red fondant icing, before gently peeling it out of the mould. After a couple of unsuccessful bows, we got the hang of it, and turned out 48 bows onto the tray for drying. The bows looked great!

We let the Hello Kitty cupcake toppers and the bows dry overnight in room temperature so they hardened a bit, and then we attached the bows onto the Hello Kitty's with a 'glue'-mix of icing sugar and an egg white. We decorated the whiskers, eyes and nose with tubes of writing icing from the supermarket baking-isle.

Ouf final step was to place the cupcake toppers onto the freshly baked glutenfree cupcakes that we had decorated with pink vanilla icing. All the birthday kids thought the Hello Kitty cupcakes were yummy! And the birthday girl was VERY happy with her cupcakes!!!