These Minnie Mouse Cupcake Toppers are perfect for your next Disney party. They’re made with easy frosting clay using cream, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar. You can make Minnie Mouse Bow Cupcake Toppers, or another fun decoration with this recipe for sculpting frosting. Perfect for a birthday party!
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Minnie Mouse Cupcake Toppers
Pinterest is a paperless magazine of ideas. As my youngest daughter’s birthday advanced, I pinned every Minnie Mouse birthday idea I saw on Pinterest. These Minnie Mouse-inspired cupcakes seemed easy enough. And I knew that if I could pull it off, these cupcakes would steal the show.
Fondant has a bad reputation for being very tasty, but I’ve heard that homemade versions are a far bigger hit with taste buds. The ears and bow are made from homemade fondant, or in this case, sculpting frosting or frosting clay which is a mixture of cream, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Sounds tasty enough.
If you are looking for more Disney Inspired party treats, then check out my post on Easy Mickey Mouse Cupcakes and how to make a Fruit Roll-Up Minnie Mouse Bow Cupcake.
Ingredients You’ll Need for Frosting Clay
- unsalted butter
- heavy cream
- vanilla extract
- powdered sugar
Coloring
- Gel food coloring – For Minnie Cupcakes, you’ll need either red or pink for the bows and black for the ears
Cupcakes
I use white frosting with a star tip to frost one-dozen vanilla cupcakes that were baked in a pink foil cupcake wrapper
Equipment Needed
Mixer
Wax Paper
Rolling Pin
Making Sculpting Frosting:
Using an electric mixer or a stand mixer add the butter and cream
Mix until smooth
Add in vanilla and mix
Adding one cup at a time so the frosting dough does become to dry. Check the consistency after the third cup of powdered sugar. If it still needs more powdered sugar to be able to mold it without it being sticky, add a little bit of the last cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Coloring for Minnie Mouse Bows and Ears
- Use gel food coloring to color most of the fondant red, and about 1/4 of it is black.
Making Bows
Since I have made this frosting a couple of times now, I know that the easiest way to make a Minni Bow out of sculpting frosting would be to use a Minnie Bow cookie cutter. Since the frosting is similar to play-dough it’s super easy to use a cookie cutter with.
If you want to make your own bows without a cookie cutter, this is how I did it.
- Grab a sheet of wax paper and a small amount of the red fondant.
- Stretch a piece of fondant into an oblong shape and place it down on the wax paper
- Take another sheet of wax paper and place it over the oblong red fondant.
- Use a rolling pin to flatten the piece into a rectangular shape
- My favorite bows were from rectangles about 1&1/2 inches by 5 inches.
- Cut strips of red frosting
- Fold each end of the rectangle into the center so they meet in the middle.
- Pinch the center to give it the bow look
- Use a small strip of fondant to wrap around the center meeting in the back of the bow
- Place each bow onto the center of a frosted cupcake
Ears
- Roll up a small ball of black fondant and set it on a clean sheet of wax paper
- Top the balls with another clean wax paper and push it down.
- That’s it. The ears are pretty simple.
- Take the ears and place them in the back of the bow, pushing the bottom of the ears into the bow and pinching them together to give them support.
Expert Tips
Air will dry the frosting out quickly, so if you have a thin piece of frosting, it might be necessary to add a finger-tip touch of water to the clay for molding purposes.
If the clay becomes to moist, add more powdered sugar
More Ideas with Frosting Clay
Divide the frosting dough up and make several different colors with gel food coloring.
Use cookie cutters and play-dough sculpting tools to make fun edible shapes. It’s really like edible play-dough. The kids can have fun sculpting and eating their creations.
Storing
These cupcakes can be made a day or two in advance and stored in a deep container with a lid at room temperature
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Printable Instructions
Minnie Mouse Cupcakes Using Easy Sculpting Frosting
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 12 Frosted cupcakes CupcakesI use white frosting with a star tip to frost one-dozen vanilla cupcakes that were baked in a pink foil cupcake wrapper
Making Sculpting Frosting
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 tbsp. heavy cream
- ¼ tsp. vanilla extract
- 3-4 cups powdered sugar
Coloring
- a few drops gel food coloring add more until you get the desired color. For Minnie Cupcakes you'll want pink or red, and black
Instructions
- Using an electric mixer or a stand mixer add the butter and cream
- Mix until smooth
- Add in vanilla and mix
- Adding one cup at a time so the frosting dough does become to dry. Check the consistency after the third cup of powdered sugar. If it still needs more powdered sugar to be able to mold it without it being sticky, add a little bit of the last cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Adding color
- Use gel food coloring to color most of the fondant red, and about 1/4 of it is black.
Making Bows
- Since I have made this frosting a couple of times now, I know that the easiest way to make a Minnie Bow out of sculpting frosting would be to use a Minnie Bow cookie cutter. Since the frosting is similar to play-dough it's super easy to use a cookie cutter with and this will cut your time in the kitchen in half!
Step-By-Step Bows without a cookie cutter
- Grab a sheet of wax paper and a small amount of the red fondant.
- Stretch a piece of fondant into an oblong shape and place it down on the wax paper
- Take another sheet of wax paper and place it over the oblong red fondant.
- Use a rolling pin to flatten the piece into a rectangular shape – My favorite bows were from rectangles about 1&1/2 inches by 5 inches.
- Fold each end of the rectangle into the center so they meet in the middle.
- Pinch the center to give it the bow look
- Use a small strip of fondant to wrap around the center meeting in the back of the bowPlace each bow onto the center of a frosted cupcake
Ears
- Roll up a small ball of black fondant and set it on a clean sheet of wax paper
- Top the balls with another clean wax paper and push it down. That's it. The ears are pretty simple.
- Take the ears and place them in the back of the bow, pushing the bottom of the ears into the bow and pinching them together to give them support.
So cute!