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The cupcakes (for Alex’s birthday) were inspired by all of the other Settlers of Catan cakes out there – which I discovered in the first place because we keep playing the boardgame.
First step – butter icing!
For the first time ever I was using fancy gel food-dye by Wilton. It created such good colours! So much easier than struggling with the normal supermarket food dyes.
After doing all of the base icing it was time to start playing with fondant. As I’d never worked with it before I decided to just go with a pack of store-bought stuff, rather than trying to make it from scratch.
First up was a few sheep: little round bodies (wool texture created by a decorating tip), little head with ears shaped onto it and eyes poked on, and little flat round base for the sheep to sit on. All in white because I had no black fondant, and it would have required a ton of dye to get it that dark.
Then some trees – green cones with little brown bases. Texture on trees created by rolling a star-shaped decorating tip around the tree a few times.
Balls of ore were just rolled into a few random sizes, textured with a fine decorating tip and a skewer.
Bricks were shaped into rectangles, then poked with the base of a knife to make the hollow.
Then I made up a batch of Royal Icing for some fancy details – rivers and roads, and some wheat fields for the wheat cupcake (my attempt at wheat was a bit of a failure – I made up some butter icing for it, but it still wouldn’t really stand up much).
5 replies on “Settlers of Catan cupcakes”
Awesome!! And were they delicious too?
(I agree the wilton dyes are much, much easier and such better colours too.)
Eeeh, I forgot the most important part – they were delicious of course! Although, I’ve decided I can’t really eat fondant, the max sugarness makes my teeth tingle. Also I really need a mega storage box that will fit cupcakes, they kind of suffered from sitting out for longer than they should have. Next stage is getting the decorating tip that will allow me to insert fillings into the cupcakes! I need more cupcake making excuses now. I believe Cupcake Fridays are in order.
Fantastic! I love Settlers of Catan. And cupcake Fridays – sheer genius!
You don’t need anything fancy to make filled cupcakes. Just use a knife to cut out a cone from the cupcake such that the top of the cup cake becomes the bottom of the cone. I usually make the cup about 3/4cm in from the edge. Then chop off the top of the cone, gobble it up (quality control!), put the filling in the hole you’ve made and put the top (the bottom of the cone) back on the cupcake.
… the things you learn! I obviously haven’t spent enough time thinking about cupcakes. Well, seeing as it’s Cupcake Friday, I might put this new-found cones and filling knowledge into use :)
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