Bee Cupcakes

I found a fun video on You Tube that teaches you how to make bees out of fondant, but the embedded code was disabled.  Why post a video if you don't want to share it?  You have to click on this Fondant Bee Video link to access it. 

I know it is almost winter, but bee cupcakes are just too cute! 

Make Your Own Gum Paste

Almost all of my cupcake decorations are made from gum paste. I use fondant decorations sparingly because fondant takes much longer to dry and when you put fondant on buttercream, the moisture from the buttercream can cause the fondant to melt - not pretty! I have ended up with a few decorating train wrecks where I opened my cupcake carrier to find a colored blob sitting on top of the cupcake where a cute decoration was supposed to be.

I have been using Wilton's gum paste mix and you just add water. This gum paste gives you great results and I love it, but it gets expensive if you use it a lot. So...this week I am experimenting with making my own gum paste.

Edna De la Cruz of Design Me a Cake is my favorite cake decorating instructor and she has a lot of videos on You Tube. Her video on making gum paste is just over 9 minutes long, but if you have time to watch it, she walks you through the process of making your own gum paste step-by-step.