• 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.