Beauty and Taste

Creating great food involves getting taste, texture and colour just right so that it is pleasing to the palate as well as to the eye of the beholder. This holds true whether you are making greek pasta salad or cupcake toppers.  

Something I quite enjoy doing is creating fun, colourful and tasty components to kids food.   These little cupcake toppers were made for a special little girl in my life.   She had a Bubble Guppie phase that called for a special treat on her birthday.  They are made of royal icing   (egg whites, icing sugar, food color and a little flavour extract just to make them tasty as well as pretty.)  The treats are a great way to show some TLC.   

• A Few hints for these toppers: 
• Start a few days ahead, they will need time to dry. 
• Make sure you set them up in a place that will not be disturbed or on cookie sheets that can be moved. 
• If you are doing an image that can be traced or found as a colouring book page - great.   Find it, shrink it to size and print multiple copies. 
• I created these on a thin parchment placed over the images and simply traced the black outlines. 
• The outlines need to be very dry before the coloured fillings are added.   
• For the filling colours use extracts or oils for flavour - they are intense and will not dilute or discolour the icing. 
• Make sure all air bubbles are removed - they show up when dried.
• The face down portion of the image will be clearest.   If your outlines are neatly done, the rest is filling in with the appropriate colour. 
• Have fun