How To Cute Pull-Apart Fish Cupcake Cake!

(Dizano.info) – Pull-apart cupcake cakes are great for parties, especially kids’ parties, considering they’re reasonably mess-free and the children can quickly grab a cupcake and devour it without dirtying too many utensils and plates!

Here’s a fun and creative way to make a pull-apart cupcake cake: turn it into a pretty fish! This would be perfect for an “Under the Sea” themed party!

Here’s how to make your simple and fun pull-apart fish cupcake cake:

Supplies:

• 6″ round cake pan (around 2″ thick)


• 12 cupcakes


• knife


• lemon yellow food coloring


• Americolor Electric Green food coloring


• Americolor Deep Pink


• buttercream


• 2D Large star tip piping bag


• lollipop stick


• black fondant


• white fondant


• edible pen (blue or brown, whatever color you want the fish’s eyeball to be)


• pink fondant


• paper towel (no quilting or indents)

Instructions:

Take your 6″ round cake (make sure your cake is a dense one) and cut it in the middle vertically so you end up with two half moons. 
Cut out a piece of cardboard that is roughly a fish shape. The two end pieces on it’s own piece of cardboard, and the cupcakes on another. Place the pieces of cake as shown in the image.

On the tail end of the half-moon piece, cut a triangle out of the flat side (so the outer side) of the cake. This creates the shape of a fin.

Frosting time! This is the fun part. Make your own crusting buttercream and tint it yellow. Frost it on and cover all of the sides. To create ridges, just take a tapered spatula and create them on the fins. Let it cool in the fridge once you’re done so it can become firm.

The head is up to frost next. Using the same colored yellow buttercream, cover the head. Wait for it to harden and crust up a bit, then take a paper towel that has no quilting and smooth it over. Place it in the fridge as well.

Once it’s chilled, take the head and place it back where it’s supposed to be. Frost your cupcakes using the Electric Green colored frosting and the Deep Pink using the 2D Large Closed Star Tip.

Now to make sure the cake doesn’t slide off the cardboard, add a bit of buttercream to the bottom of the cake where it meets the cardboard. It will secure it firmly. Also do this to each cupcake that sits on the outer edge of the fish so they don’t slide off (you don’t need to do this to the ones in the middle as the outside ones will hold them in place).

It’s on to the tail! Take it out of the fridge, and like the head, spread some buttercream on the bottom and glue it to the cardboard. Make sure all the pieces of the fish body are nice and close! So push it together using the quilt-free paper towel so you don’t leave finger prints!

Props:

1. Make fish lips out of pink fondant in the shape like a backwards 3 and stick a tooth pick or lollipop stick in it. Let it dry for an hour or more.


2. Make the eyelashes out of black fondant. Just cut two little squares of black fondant and cut strips into them (not fully, it should still be attached). Roll it on a pencil and let it dry there for around an hour or more. They will end up being big, curly, and girly!


3.  For the eyes, roll out a piece of white fondant in a circle about the size of a quarter or so and draw on her eyeball with the food coloring pen! You can also add some edible disco dust to make her eyes shine!

Place all the props on!

You can also add fish fins, waves using buttercream that’s been tinted blue, air bubbles using a 12 Wilton tip (medium round tip), etc.

You’ve got yourself the star of the party…the other star of the party, I mean!

Dizano Life Magazine

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