bakery cook and tips: How to Make Christmas Bauble Cupcakes

The Magical Cupcake Company has an amazing tutorial on how to create the perfectly domed cupcake topper. You can use gumpaste, fondant or marshmallow fondant (like I do) and whatever you choose you use, amazingly, you get perfect dome consistently. Another amazing "so that's how they do that" question answered! Thanks a lot The Magical Cupcake Company!

You can apply the technique a number of creative ways as shown in the tutorial but being Christmas and all, I wanted to make some baubles as part of my holiday posts this year. Plus, I have some really nice texture sheets I bought last June and I can not just let the year pass by with using at least one :)

How to Make Christmas Baubles Cupcakes

What we need:
Fondant in ivory and purple
Stress ball or Squeeze ball
Found fondant cutter
Texture Sheet (design of your choice)
Luster dust in plum (a combination of red and blue - I just mixed them up) and gold
Brush
Rolling Pin
Cornstarch

Here's how:
(1) Liberally dust the texture sheet with cornstarch and roll the purple fondant on it

(2) Gently peel it off and you can see the amazing design.

(3) Cut out the circles we need.

(4) Place them on top of a (clean) squeeze ball. Let it sit overnight to help shape it up.

(5) Brush the dome with the plum luster dust. (do not add any liquid - like vodka or a clear extract) Make sure to apply it dry. Set it aside for the color to settle.