Under the Sea Cupcake Toppers

Since 2 weeks from now it's my little Peia's birthday I have to be ready for her cake and cupcakes toppers. I tried to searched on the internet to find some good stuffs as inspiration; however it's so hard to find an instructional video how to make this fondant under the sea creatures, so we (my mom, my brother justin and me) decided to copy as what we can some pictures from the internet.

So my dad made the fondant for us out of "marshmallows". He started to microwave the unsweetened marshmallows and put some water (about a tsp.) 

This should be the consistency of your melted marshmallow

What you need to make a Fondant

 All you need to do a Fondant are: Unsweetened marshmallows, Petraco confectioner sugar, Shortening. You have to grease first the place where your going to mix the melted marshmallows, so it wont stick on your worktable. Then put confectioner sugar on your melted marshmallows and mix it well. If you can still hear a popping sounds like a bubbles well you still need to mashed it until the bubbles is gone. Then you will have a fondant like the one below.

Finished Fondant

Once your done with that, you have to think a theme for your fondant toppers. I choose to have an Under the Sea Theme, so I choose bright colors. I used sweet food coloring on my fondant to have many options for the toppers. Then ready your fondant tools and your Gumtext for making your toppers.

Wilton Food coloring has a sweet tatse and just a few drops or a dot on a toothpick it will have strong color. 

 These are the tools we need to make a fondant design.

You need this if you want your toppers to stand alone. It will harden your fondant
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These are the colored fondant

Now, we started to make flounder which is Ariel's friend in Little Mermaid, sea shells, starfish(well, we used star cutter and just adjust the side to make it embossed), cute little crabs, octopus,seahorse,dolphins, some colored clown fishes, sting ray and babies.

playful dolphins

baby w/ rattle, sleeping baby and a hiding baby

octopus, sting ray and clown fishes

starfishes

rough draft of flounder

flounder

cutie crabs

And still wanting to make more creatures. Tomorrow will be a busy day to make more toppers. So wait for more ideas for your kids under the sea theme cupcake toppers.
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