Pretty Fondant Cupcakes

Ta-dah! My first attempt at making fondant cupcakes. Made them for my ol friend from school days - for her daughter's 7th birthday. I didn't realize how much time it takes to mold 25 cupcakes, until I molded 25 cupcakes! But I had fun making them. For an amateur like me the following tools were indispensable.

My stainless steel rolling pin with 1/8" washers on either side. I have tried in the past to roll fondant "free-hand" and unless you have precision of a machine(or have years of fondant rolling experience - which I don't!), I dare say it is nearly impossible to get it the same thickness every time - much less for 25 cupcakes! So yes, the tools do make a difference - especially for amateurs like me :) Those purple babies helped me roll out the fondant perfectly even every time before I cut out the shapes.

The washers came in a small pack for RM2 at Bake With Yen. The pink washers are half the thickness of the purple ones - to make more delicate shapes like leaves/flowers. I had seen them before and always wondered what they were used for. So for those of you who had the same question - now you know :) 

Alphabet cutters were a steal too! RM5.50 only for the whole alphabet at Chang Tung! You can probably guess how the other cutters were used. 

Cupcakes. Pretty. Birthdays. Satisfied!