Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

Last Thursday was Smiley's 2nd birthday.  You may have read there that she has a special place in her heart for all things Minnie Mouse (what, you missed that one?  Click here to get caught up ☺)

Anyway, I made her some Minnie Mouse cupcakes ~ (I just checked out google images for inspiration)

Super easy!

Found some pink cupcake papers with white polka-dots at Michaels.
Made a boxed cake and dressed it up with 1 box of pudding and 1 cup of sour cream

And, made some yummy frosting.

The hardest part was making the ears (ok not really) and the bows (a little harder) out of fondant. 

I purchased some white fondant and colored some of it black and some of it pink ~ it's a good idea to wear some sort of glove (or, coating your hands with a little vegetable shortening will help too) while coloring your fondant or your hands may look like this (for most of the next day):

Rolled the black out and cut circles for ears using a small round cookie cutter.

For the bows, I rolled out the pink fondant and cut it into strips, then cut the strips into 3 sections. 

2 of the sections I formed around my pinkie finger to make the bow loops and smooshed the two together.

The 3rd piece was used to make the middle "knot".  I just placed it over the middle and connected the two ends in the back.

I let these dry overnight so they would firm up.

The next day ~ right before the cupcakes were to be displayed, I placed all of the pieces on top of the frosted cupcake (which I frosted without a tip).

Smiley LOVED them!

Wanna make a minnie mouse skirt? 

Come back tomorrow ☺

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