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**Hawki**
I just saw your blog entry about the marshmallow fondant. I've never heard of it but it sounds intriguing. Since you have now worked with it, do you think it would work on something like this:
I guess what I'm asking is if it would stand up to the looping in the picture like traditional fondant does. I'm doing flower cupcakes for my goddaughter's 1st birthday in August and I'm trying to decide between trying these or learning how to pipe buttercream to look like a flower. Marshmallow fondant sounds soooo much better than traditional.
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Re: **Hawki**
You can definitely use marsmallow fondant - its basically the same consistency as regular fondant that you can buy in the craft store, it just tastes a lot better. One thing that I would do though for the loops is mix some gum paste in with the fondant. We made a Wilton bow in the class I just took and we used a 50/50 mix of fondant and gum paste and it dries much better. Fondant alone kind of collapses. You can make the flowers in advance, let them dry and then top the cupcakes. To glue them together mix a tiny bit of gum paste broken up in pieces with a tablespoon or so of water until it forms a smooth liquid. Then just paint that on and stick them together. You can also roll the little balls for the center, paint them with the gum glue and roll them in yellow sanding sugar.
If you decide to go the buttercream flower route - I would actually probably use royal icing so the flowers can dry and you can do them in advance, if you do buttercream, you'll have to do them all at the same time.
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Hmm, I don't think Royal Icing is the way I'd want to go. If I tried piping, I'd go for something sort of like these:
I have no way to transport decorated cupcakes, so if I did piping, I would do them all the day of the party at the location of the party.
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Gotcha... I'm not a big fan of the look of royal icing but its definitely convenient - that's how I did the flowers on this cake.
For the buttercream ones... just beware that that can take quite a while to do. If I was doing that plate of 15 cupcakes, it would probably take me at least an hour to pipe all of those and you will need at least 4 different tips, maybe more, its kind of hard to tell. The roses are pretty easy (use a large 1M tip and swirl just keep it flat)
How many do you have to make? Depending on the number, I'm thinking you'll be better off going with fondant. It's easier and more forgiving.
As for transporting decorated cupcakes - depending on how far it is, I just buy a cake box or 2 at Michaels (they are less than $2) and pack them in, I try to put them in pretty tight so they can't slide around. I've also heard that if you put a dab of buttercream under each cupcake, it will hold them in place or I use my cupcake carrier (I have a snapware one that holds 24). If you are going to be in the car long though, buttercream starts to melt at about 80 degrees so its probably better to decorate it there anyway.
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