Alot of planning went in to these princesses! Many of the suggested ingredients were almost impossible to find and I needed to come up with substitutions. Who would have thought that the little silver ball edible decorations are near impossible to find?? I ended up finding them by fluke in an Italian meat shop on Hastings Street in Vancouver. The dresses were made out of rolled fondant (not rolled spice drops as recommended.... it didnt work). I used pringles vanilla bread sticks instead of pretzels as I thought that would be more tastey than a salty pretzel to hold the head up through the cupcakes. The entire princess is fully edible from top to bottom and it was definately fun seeing my nieces get excited about eating them!
Cali's 1st birthday cake! I put one of the party princess cupcakes on the top as a decoration. The cake was 3 layers: white, chocolate and rainbow bit with bavarian creme on the inside. I used butter cream icing. The lettering was done by melting white chocolate wafers and hand writing the letters on wax paper, put in the fridge for 5 min and then gently peel off the wax paper and stick on the cake (make extra letters incase they break!!). The top of the cake was sprinkled with pink chocolate curls that I bought in a cake decorating store in Victoria.
These butterfly cupcakes were my first creation from the "Hello, Cupcake" book. I thought it looked the easiest!! (even though I wouldn't classify these as easy). The wings are made of melted chocolate wafers. The blue chocolate was my own idea, I like a bit of color. I used pre-made icing for the cupcakes, which I won't do next time, it wasn't strong enough to hold up the wings (I had to use tooth pics to prop them up). I think a nice thick butter cream would do the trick next time.