See what I gave to a few friends this Easter. Carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting topped with homemade chocolate carrots as decoration. The cupcakes were all packaged in these cute little cupcake boxes!
I had ordered some royal icing carrots from King Arthur's Flour for about seven dollars. When I opened them I found that there were only 8 in the package. Now I love King Arthur's Flour like everyone else but these little suckers were almost 1 buck a piece and that was without shipping! And I had planned on making 30 cupcakes. Do the math..... So I got out my food safe mold putty and.....
I stuck four carrots into the soft putty and then let it dry to a flexible mold.
Then I removed the carrots (broke two in the process......) and poured candy melts into the little cavities. I popped the filled molds into the freezer for about three minutes and CAREFULLY renoved the candy carrots. I only broke a few in the process so they were much sturdier than the sugar ones.
I didn/t have orange candy melts so I mixed red with yellow and they looked great when they were done. And cost a lot less than a dollar a piece!
Here are the finished cupcakes. Some went to my neighbor, some went to a few friends and the rest were our Easter dessert.
I put the ones for my friends in cute cupcake boxes, I then wrapped a ribbon around the box and used a homemade sticker to seal the ribbon ends together. They looked special and were delicious as well. Diana
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