How To Make Clown Cupcakes

How To Make Clown Cupcakes

One thing I loved as a child was going to the circus with my family. In fact I enjoyed watching the clowns as they performed tricks and acts in the circus tent.

I’ve passed my love of clowns and the circus onto my daughter and we love to visit the Blackpool tower circus each year. Today we have some fantastic clown cupcakes to share which would be great when visiting the circus or for a circus-themed party. Enjoy!

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Ingredients For These Circus Themed Cupcakes

• 12 vanilla cupcakes (we used a cake mix!)
• ½ stick butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1-2 tbsp milk
• 6-8 oz. green fondant
• 4-6 oz. yellow fondant
• 1-2 oz. light purple fondant
• 1-2 oz. baby blue fondant
• 1 circular cookie cutter, about 2 ½ inches in diameter
• Wilton icing tip #12
• Wilton icing tip #101
• 24 toothpicks

Yields: One dozen decorated cupcakes

How to make clown cupcakes

Before decorating, ensure that the cupcakes are cooled down completely.

The butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk are the ingredients that make up the buttercream. Place all three in a large bowl and beat using an electric mixer.

Be sure to start the speed on low and increase to high.

Using The Buttercream

Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is complete.

Using an offset spatula, frost each cupcake with a thin layer of buttercream.

Roll out the green fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.

Use the circular cookie cutter to cut out 12 green fondant circles.

Cover each cupcake with one fondant circle.

Divide the yellow fondant into 12 one-inch spheres. Shape each one into a cone.

Rolling Fondant

Roll out the light purple fondant and the blue fondant so that they’re each about ¼ of an inch thick.

Using the tip of Wilton #12, cut out 12 small circles of blue and purple fondant.

Stick one of each color on the yellow fondant cones.

Insert a toothpick into the center of each cupcake and then insert the yellow cone.

Insert another toothpick into each cone, having a small portion of the toothpick poke through the top.

Roll out 6 spheres of purple fondant and 6 spheres blue fondant – about ½ an inch in size each.

Insert one sphere on top of each cone (the tip of the toothpick will help keep it secure).

Using Buttercream For The Clown Hats

Scoop the remaining buttercream into a small piping bag with Wilton tip #101 attached.

Using a back and forth motion, frost the circumference of the bottom of each fondant cone.

Serve and enjoy!

Yield: 12

Circus Clown Cupcakes

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These tasty delicious cupcakes are super cute and fun to make. Follow the instructions today.

Additional Time 20 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 12 vanilla cupcakes (we used a cake mix!)
• ½ stick butter, softened
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1-2 tbsp milk
• 6-8 oz. green fondant
• 4-6 oz. yellow fondant
• 1-2 oz. light purple fondant
• 1-2 oz. baby blue fondant
• 1 circular cookie cutter, about 2 ½ inches in diameter
• Wilton icing tip #12
• Wilton icing tip #101
• 24 toothpicks

Instructions

Yields: One dozen decorated cupcakes

Before decorating, ensure that the cupcakes are cooled down completely.

The butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk are the ingredients that make up the buttercream. Place all three in a large bowl and beat using an electric mixer.

Be sure to start the speed on low and increase to high.

Once the ingredients are well-combined and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is complete.

Using an offset spatula, frost each cupcake with a thin layer of buttercream.

Roll out the green fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.

Use the circular cookie cutter to cut out 12 green fondant circles.

Cover each cupcake with one fondant circle.

Divide the yellow fondant into 12 one-inch spheres. Shape each one into a cone.

Roll out the light purple fondant and the blue fondant so that they’re each about ¼ of an inch thick.

Using the tip of Wilton #12, cut out 12 small circles of blue and purple fondant.

Stick one of each color on the yellow fondant cones.

Insert a toothpick into the center of each cupcake and then insert the yellow cone.

Insert another toothpick into each cone, having a small portion of the toothpick poke through the top.

Roll out 6 spheres of purple fondant and 6 spheres blue fondant - about ½ an inch in size each.

Insert one sphere on top of each cone (the tip of the toothpick will help keep it secure).

Scoop the remaining buttercream into a small piping bag with Wilton tip #101 attached.

Using a back and forth motion, frost the circumference of the bottom of each fondant cone.

Serve and enjoy!

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