In today’s tutorial we show you how to decorate a cupcake to create an lovely polar bear perfect for the holiday season! This tutorial is fun for adults and kids to both make and gobble up! You can also easily adapt the steps in this tutorial to make other adorable animals; such as making triangular ears, larger eyes and adding whiskers to whip up a little cat.
What you need…
A cupcake smoothed with buttercream
White modelling paste
Black modelling paste (or white paste hand coloured with black colouring)
Edible glue
Paintbrush
Fondant rolling pin
Circle pastry cutter set by Tala
PME ball tool
PME scallop and comb tool
Step one: Roll out some white sugarpaste and cut out a circle with your 68mm cutter.
Step two: Take your cupcake smothered with buttercream and smooth your sugarpaste circle atop. Press lightly at the edges until the icing meets the edge. Dust with lustre dust if you would like some festive sparkle.
Step three: Cut out a small circle of sugarpaste using a small circle cutter. Using your edible glue attach this just low to the centre of your cupcake. Dust with lustre dust if you wish.
Step four: Cut out two circles from your rolled out white sugarpaste and indent them with your ball tool to make your bear’s ears. Dust with lustre dust.
Step five: To affix the ears dab some edible glue atop your cupcake on either side then lightly press the ears on top.
Step six: To make your polar bear smile use the scallop tool to indent both sides of the mouth into the muzzle.
Step seven: Create a tiny nose from some black sugarpaste and glue this above the mouth.
Step eight: Finally to make the eyes make two small black balls and lightly flatten. Glue these above the polar bear’s muzzle. Then create two tiny white balls, indent the blacks with the end of your paintbrush and glue the tiny white balls in.
Hurrah! You now have a lovely little polar bear cupcake to enjoy in the holiday season. Merry Christmas and happy baking from Juniper Cakery!
