Every month Amelia and I go to Sweet Designs by Jennie‘s cupcake class, often going to one of the newer designs! Jennie creates new designs monthly, with so many different ones to choose from. Amelia and I always have a fantastic time creating cupcakes, chatting with others, and learning new decorating techniques. As always, we showed up for our class and all of the cakes were already baked. Our fondant was set out, along with tons of tools, and we got right to it!
The Funky Foods cupcake class is the first class we have went to that was only fondant – no real frosting. We’ve been to quite a few different classes that mixed both fondant toppers with iced toppers, but this time we only created fondant. These fondant toppers were inspired by Jelly Cats, the popular stuffed toys, which were absolutely adorable. I did not think mine would come out this cute, but Jennie does a great job of explaining and breaking down each little figure into lots of parts, that give you a good idea of how to make them.
We started out by making all of the bases, so that they could dray a little bit and become ridged. These were all exactly the same in the Funky foods cupcake class, then we started making the little figures. Some were extremely easy, like the marshmallow pair that just required you to make little cylinders out of your fondant, where as others were more complex. Amelia’s marshmallow came out absolutely perfect and both of us did a great job at cutting out a long triangle and making a crescent roll, however, we both agreed that the cake was the hardest part (maybe because of the tiny candle that needed to be rolled and put on top!). All of them did turn out adorable!
Amelia ended up making some flatter, stumpy feet as she didn’t enjoy creating the long versions of them like I did, along with adding some ketchup to her hot dog character! She always is so creative and it’s fantastic that she can take the advise and guidance from Jennie but add her own twist to them. I really liked how different but similar our cupcakes came out. It was a lot of fun to do so much fondant work. Once we had all of the toppers sort of stuck together, we did a small amount of piping to frost the tops of the cupcakes, before plopping on the toppers and completing them. They all came out so cute.
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I cant’ believe how creative these look like, wow….The croissant figure, omg…and the donut lol…They’re amazing.
Wow these are amazing I have always loved baking but have never been very good at the decorating part
Aw, these are too cute! I absolutely love them. I love that you have this as a little tradition together too. What a fab activity. This looks like loads of fun.
Claire.X
I love those cute little toppers! These cupcakes are some of the most adorable I’ve seen. She did a great job.
This looks like such a fun experience and the cupcakes are so creative. I’d love to try something like this as I enjoy anything hands on and a bit creative.
Corinne x
Love how fun and creative this class looks! Your Jelly Cat cupcakes turned out so cute and detailed.
These are so cute – wow!! I love the fondant designs – this is a class I would be interested in taking with my daughter!
Those Jelly Cat inspired cupcake toppers look fantastic. What a fun experience for both you an Amelia and a great skill to learn!
I just went to a similar class last week, and I LOVED it. It wasn’t as nice as this one, but I still enjoyed it. Can only imagine how cool it would be to be here, too!
It’s awesome to see Amelia experimenting with shapes and ideas. Adding personal touches makes every cupcake unique and memorable.
This sounds really fun, and your work is so cute. I love how creative and detailed everything looks. It honestly makes me want to try something like this too.
I strongly believe that you had an awesome time yet again at the Cupcake Class with Sweet Designs by Jennie. It is truly refreshing to read about your experiences every month.
Aww, you guys did a great job! Adorable! Such a nice bonding activity for you both. Love it x