Celebrate Christmas with Parol Cupcakes!

Hi everyone!

How are your Holiday preparations coming along? How will you spend the Holidays?

Can you feel the magic in the air?

I feel giddy already, I love Christmas!!!

As you can see, I have been blogging about Christmas for sometime now.

So, even though it's still early, I want to greet you a very...

Don't you love parols? I do. Parols are these star-like Christmas ornaments popularized by the Filipinos. It symbolizes the star that guided the Magi to where baby Jesus was born.

In the Philippines, Christmas wouldn't be complete without hanging one over your home's window. Or sometimes your door. . 

This Chrismas, I decided to make parols with a twist. These parols are the edible kind - I made several of the "cupcake topper" kind.

For variety, I made small parols and big parols. Oh so delicate! Good thing they all behaved while I did the photo shoot! 

And all are made from fondant, royal icing, gold luster dust and red sparkling gel. See the red sparkling gel? It almost dripped into the gold lustered royal icing... oops!

I almost wasn't able to put up this post because every idea I thought of making parol cupcake toppers failed - big time. How about some cut out sugar cookie parols filled up with melted green isomalt? Whoa! Whatever happened to that?!

How about some sugar cookie parols? Naaah... too delicate.

At least now I now, fondant and royal icing are two of my dependable best buds.

Happy Cupcaking!

Aikko