Techniques
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It´s the big top for your cupcake—a jolly jester decorated on a candy face made in our Melting Plate.
Tools and Ingredients
- White Candy Melts®*
- Garden Candy Color Set
- Primary Candy Color Set
- White Ready-To-Use Rolled Fondant
- Fine Tip FoodWriter™ Primary Colors Edible Color Markers
- Royal Blue, Leaf Green, Rose, Lemon Yellow Icing Color
- Open Star Decorating Tip 14
- Candy Melting Plate
- 4 in. Lollipop Sticks
- Cake Board
- Parchment Triangles
- Waxed paper
- Meringue Powder
- Royal Icing
- *Brand confectionery coating.
Steps
Step 1
Make fondant hats. Tint portions of white fondant green, yellow, blue and rose. Shape into 1 in. high cones with fingers. Let dry. Draw dot and stripe designs with various color FoodWriter markers.
Step 2
Mold candy faces. Tint a portion of melted white candy skin tone using orange candy color. Fill Melting Plate cavities with candy using a cut parchment bag. Refrigerate until firm.
Step 3
Attach hats and 4 in. Lollipop Sticks to faces with melted candy. Let set. Tint portions of melted white candy black, pink, red, green, yellow, blue and orange using candy colors. Place faces on waxed paper-covered board. Decorate faces using melted candy in cut parchment bags. Decorate black dot eyes and string mouth, pink dot cheeks, red dot nose, swirl hair in green, red, yellow, blue or orange. Let set. To add fringe on hat in royal icing, hold Star Decorating Tip 14 at a 45° angle to surface and pipe pull-out stars.
