To decorate these gorgeous horse cupcakes you will need:
6 chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate Buttercream
Small amount of vanilla buttercream
Sugarpaste
Brown food colouring
Tylose powder (to firm the sugarpaste – not essential)
Two round cutters or rose cutters
Edible glue
Piping bags
Star piping tip
1. Start by making the horses ears as the longer you let these dry the firmer they will be. If you can leave them overnight that would be ideal.
Using the larger cutter cut 12 dark brown circles. Use the smaller cutter to cut 12 light brown circles. Stick the smaller circle onto the larger and carefully fold length ways. Pinch the top slightly and squeeze together the base of the ear.
Here is a video of how I use 2 rose cutters to easily create the ears. For the horse ears I used brown and light brown sugarpaste with tylo to help firm them.
https://youtu.be/TjYRM0rDvR8
2. Make the horse’s eyes by rolling small equal sized balls of dark sugarpaste.
3. To make the mussle, use a small grape sized ball and slightly flatten to oval. Use a tool or end of a brush to make the nostril dents.
4. Pipe the chocolate buttercream stars all over the cupcake.
5. Pipe the vanilla buttercream where you’d like the horses markings to be.
6. Gently push the ears into the buttercream.
7. Place the mussle on and the eyes.
8. Pipe a fringe in between the ears using the same star tip.
9. You can use a dap of edible white paint or edible glaze to give the eyes a light reflection.
And that’s the cupcakes finished. I hope you found this tutorial helpful and happy baking to you.
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These showed up on my Facebook page. I wanted to order them for my birthday, but I live in Colorado! They are so cute!! Best of luck with your business!
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Thank you, I hope you have a lovely birthday! Maybe a baker local to you could make some for you. 🤞
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Thank you for putting this out there. I am no baker and I think these are absolutely precious. I am getting married in July and it is a western themed wedding. My Maid of honor and I are going to attempt making these instead I of a cake.
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Congratulations and I hope you have a wonderful wedding day with lots of delicious cupcakes!
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Those pony cupcakes are adorable! I wish I could make them but I am such a klutz!
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Thank you, you should give them a try! They aren’t as hard as they look 😊
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wondering what your buttercream icing recipe was for these cupcakes. i am so looking forward to trying them for my daughters 11th birthday!! thank you:)
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Hi, its just a 1:2 ratio of unsalted butter and icing sugar. And vanilla extract. For the brown icing I’d add some cocoa powder. 🙂 for example, 200g butter, 400g icing sugar and 30g cocoa powder. If its too thick a small spoon of cooled boiled water.
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