Angry Birds and Sesame Street Cupcakes

After playing around with big cakes I decided to try making cupcakes because I find they generally go down better than a big cake. My brother was having a cake stall with his friends to raise money for their world challenge trip to the Himalayas and they wanted me to make some cakes. So I had a look on the Internet for some inspiration as to what to do and then I came across some angry birds cakes and sesame street cakes. I thought these might be good to do as they might sell quicker because kids will want them and parents will buy them. So I had a go at them and this was the finished product:

I did most of the angry birds but they are not pictured, and the sesame street characters pictured where the only ones had made. For the cupcakes I used the same principle as making a big cake, I dirty iced the top of the cakes with butter cream and then cut out a fondant circle with a pastry cutter. For the sesame street characters I used a fluted pastry cutter to make their faces and then cut out the extra bits to make their faces. I did the same for the angry birds but used a normal pastry cutter and then cut out the rest of the pieces.

The lady bird pictured was fairly easy, instead of cutting out a white fondant circle I cut out a black piece and put it on. I then did a red circle and cut out a triangle to form the wings and then I cut out an oval shape to make the head. I then added eyes and black dots.

These went down very well at my brothers cake sale and they were the first to go, together they raised about £150 to go towards their trip between the four of them which was pretty good considering they were outside in the pouring rain!

Katie