Happy Turtle Day everyone! In celebration of the day I made a turtle made out of cupcakes! I used the Classic Vanilla Cupcake recipe and Very Vanilla frosting with food color in it. I hope to later come up with natural dyes instead of artificial ones since they really aren't great for you. Though I try to avoid most dyes if I have to I will eat ones that are not animal derived. Under no circumstances will I eat Red 40. Keep checking back as I have plans this summer to do some dye testing! Anyway, I also used the Dark Chocolate Delight frosting.
This design is fairly simple to do. After baking the 12 large cupcakes I arranged them on a foam poster board. I broke toothpicks in half and stuck them through the bottom of the board and the bottom of the cupcakes to keep them from moving. After they were all in place I piped blobs of chocolate frosting on the shell cupcakes and then smoothed it out. To get a smooth, uniform look, dip the spatula in water. Make sure to wipe it off before dipping it again. After the shell was done I smoothed on the green frosting and then piped the design on the shell.
If you want to make the "water" around the turtle with mini cupcakes like I did go ahead and make another batch of cupcakes, but only if you want about 50 small cupcakes! My vanilla cupcake recipe makes quite a bit and depending on how full you fill the cupcake liners you can get quite a few cupcakes. If you just want a few blue ones and a turtle just make a regular batch of cupcakes. You will have enough left over for at least 10 blue cupcakes.
This design is fairly simple to do. After baking the 12 large cupcakes I arranged them on a foam poster board. I broke toothpicks in half and stuck them through the bottom of the board and the bottom of the cupcakes to keep them from moving. After they were all in place I piped blobs of chocolate frosting on the shell cupcakes and then smoothed it out. To get a smooth, uniform look, dip the spatula in water. Make sure to wipe it off before dipping it again. After the shell was done I smoothed on the green frosting and then piped the design on the shell.
If you want to make the "water" around the turtle with mini cupcakes like I did go ahead and make another batch of cupcakes, but only if you want about 50 small cupcakes! My vanilla cupcake recipe makes quite a bit and depending on how full you fill the cupcake liners you can get quite a few cupcakes. If you just want a few blue ones and a turtle just make a regular batch of cupcakes. You will have enough left over for at least 10 blue cupcakes.
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