{"id":2723,"date":"2011-01-16T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2011-01-17T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T03:29:04","slug":"settlers-of-catan-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=2723","title":{"rendered":"Settlers of Catan cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The finished cupcakes<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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And now to backtrack to the start – click on for the full story…<\/p>\n

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The cupcakes (for Alex’s birthday) were inspired by all of the other Settlers of Catan cakes out there<\/a> – which I discovered in the first place because we keep playing the boardgame.<\/p>\n

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Starting icing<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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First step – butter icing!<\/p>\n

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Wilton icing<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Base icing complete<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Balls of ore were just rolled into a few random sizes, textured with a fine decorating tip and a skewer.<\/p>\n

Bricks were shaped into rectangles, then poked with the base of a knife to make the hollow.<\/p>\n

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Fondant stage complete<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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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). <\/p>\n

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Forest cupcake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Brick cupcake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Ore cupcake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Sheep cupcake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Wool detail and the cute little sheep tail<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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The desert (with oasis)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Completed cupcakes (with a mangled<\/del> carved piece of licorice for the robber)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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