Here are some simple decorating ideas that you can use to create RSPCA Cupcake Critters.
Start with freshly baked and iced cupcake. You may want to add some food colouring to the icing to get the right colours for fins, feathers, fur or fangs!
Food colouring
Can be used to change the colour of icing and coconut – great for making realistic grass!
Tubes of icing for drawing on cakes
Can be found in the cake decorating section of your supermarket.
Desiccated coconut
Can be used for grass or fur and you can change its colour using food colourings.
Lollies
Everything from Smarties to Snakes to marshmallows to liquorice can be used for ears, tails, facial features and scales.
Hundreds and Thousands
These bouncing balls of design delight can be used for anything from butterfly wings to beetle droppings!
Edible glitter
You can get this at cake decorating stores. Turns a cupcake into a disco ball!
Marzipan
Great for moulding animals
Your imagination!!!
Start with an iced cupcake then use:
- chocolate chips to make eyes
- liquorice for the mouth and whiskers
- the head of a red lolly snake for the tongue
- Smartie cut in half for the ears
Start with an iced cupcake then use:
- Black icing pen for mouth
- Marshmallow for tip of nose
- Liquorice for whiskers
- Two yellow jubes cut into triangles for ears
Start with an iced cupcake then use:
- Marshmallows for ears and nose
- an icing pen to draw on eyes and a mouth
- two red Smarties for chubby cheeks
Start with an iced cupcake then use:
- A white icing pen to draw on a cobweb
- Eight strips of liquorice for the legs
- A brown smartie for the head
- A chocolate button for the body
- A red icing pen to make a red spot on the spider's back
