How to Make Leaning Tower of Pisa Cupcakes

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After the Eiffel Tower Cupcakes Tutorial, I thought I'd make a tutorial of another famous landmark, The Leaning Tower of Pisa. I remember Cake Boss making a ginormous cake version of the tower with a couple riding a Vespa and I thought, hmmmm.... how about we make  a cupcake topper version?

I made this topper using the same technique as the Eiffel Tower Cupcakes, I call it the Google and Trace technique. You know, find an easy to copy clip art on Google, trace it on a tracing paper and transfer to gumpaste. Then following it up with details using royal icing. This technique works well if you have want to create a two dimensional topper like Eiffel and this one. I find this a very useful (and inexpensive too) technique since not all shapes are readily available as a fondant cutter. 

So here it is! hope you guys like it!

What we need

Cupcakes (of course!)

Buttercream in Electric Green (with some in a piping bag with a grass tip)

Leaning Tower of Pisa Template (I just googled "Eiffel Tower Clipcart" and copied the simplest image I can find and tranfered it to a tracing paper)

Knife

Gumpaste (I use Country Kitchen's Gumpaste Mix)

Royal Icing tinted Chocolate Brown in piping bag with a #1 tip

Slim popsicle sticks

Here's How:


(1) Using an offset spatula, spread some of the buttercream into the cupcakes. Make sure to just spread thinly as we'll be adding another layer first. Consider this a "primer coat"

(2) Pipe the grass on the cupcakes.

(3) Roll out gumpaste and cut out the Leaning Tower of Pisa(s) using the template. Let it dry overnight

(4) Here's the template I used along with the cut gumpaste version.

(5) Using the Royal Icing in piping bag with a #1 tip, pipe the outline of the tower

(6) Then proceed piping the inside details of the tower. Let it dry (... again) 

(7) Assemble towers on top of the cupcakes with popsicle sticks for support. Make sure to make the tower lean a little bit on the right. It wouldn't be the Leaning Tower of Pisa if it doesn't lean, yeah?