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Spaceship
Cupcake
Cake
A spaceship
cupcake cake to blast off your party.
It's simple. It's fun. And
everyone loves a cupcake.
Items Needed:
18 cupcakes
White frosting, about 2 cups
Blue frosting, about ½ cup
Red, orange and yellow gel food coloring
Red Hot candies
Hershey Kisses
Decorator bags & tip #32
- Lay out cupcakes as shown in the pattern below
(way below). Gently squish
together. Mix frosting to be sure it is soft and will spread easily.
- Spread white frosting over all the cupcakes.
Reserve about ¼
cup of white frosting for the flames at
the bottom of the spaceship.
- With tip #32 outline the spaceship with blue
frosting, including the
base and tip of the spaceship. DO NOT outline the bottom
center
cupcake. It will be frosted with flames.
- Use Red Hot candies to outline the door of the
spaceship.
- Put one Hershey Kiss upside down into the door
of the spaceship for a window.
- Put about 9 more Hershey Kisses upside down in
the base of the spaceship.
- Now for the tricky part. To skip the trick,
just color the ¼ cup of
reserved white frosting orange and decorate the final cupcake with
orange flames. Then skip down to step #11.
- Here's
the trick. Put the #32 tip on a clean decorator bag and then turn down
the top edges of the bag so that it is almost inverted; just
an
inch and a half of bag is not inverted.
- Use
toothpicks dabbed in red gel and draw a line on the inside of the
decorator bag. Reach down to near the tip and draw a
line upward. Do
the same with the yellow and orange colors. Make 2-3 lines of
each
gel food coloring in this manner. Then carefully fill with reserved
white frosting.
- Pipe
a few lines from a central point, downward and out to create some
flames for the bottom of the spaceship.
- Cover your cake until you serve the spaceship
cupcake cake at the
party. Everyone
will love being able to grab their own piece of the cake.
Tips:
- To make full cupcakes, instead of flat ones,
either use a
Duncan Hines cake mix or fill the cups more and make 18-22
cupcakes
instead of 24.
- Use canned frosting or homemade frosting. Use
my recipe
or get
two cans of the store bought stuff, just to be sure you have enough.
- Use gel food coloring because it won’t thin the
icing and
make it runny.
- If the icing is too thick, spreading it over
the top of the
cupcakes will pull the tops of the cupcakes off. Thin with half and
half or
milk.
- If the icing is too thin, it will run between
the cupcakes
and make a gooey mess. Thicken with powdered sugar.
- I generally use larger, more open tips for
decorating the
cupcake cakes. They give a more definitive edge to the cake and the
larger
pieces of frosting won’t fall down the small cracks between the
cupcakes.
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Frosting (enough for a spaceship cupcake cake) |
½
butter or margarine, softened
½ cup shortening
1 tsp. vanilla
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4
cups powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. half and half or milk
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Cream butter and
shortening. Add vanilla and mix. Add sugar,
one cup at a time and continue mixing. Scrape sides as needed. Add half
and
half. The frosting should be easy to spread, and still firm so it won’t
slide
down between the cupcakes. Add more powdered sugar to thicken or more
half and
half to thin the frosting—but add in very small increments.
Keep frosting refrigerated when not using. Mix well before
use because it spreads
easier when it’s warm.
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