How to Make Pahiyas Festival Cupcakes

An unfortunate thing happened this time last year. Blogspot had a meltdown. 

Yeah.  I had a post about the most colorful festival ever celebrated in the Philippines every May, the Pahiyas Festival. It was up for two days then...

Poof!

It was gone, no where to be found. Nada. No trace that it even existed. At all. I was heartbroken. I just have to accept that sometimes, bad things happen to good blog posts. 

You see, I had to wait a year to post it again because the festival happens only on May 15. So here it goes.

For those who are not familiar with the Pahiyas Festival, here's the 411 - 

• What: a celebration of splendid display of kiping (rice wafers), fruits and vegetables gracing every house
• Who: by the people of Lucban, Quezon, the Philippines and the rest of the world
• When: every 15th of May
• Where: Lucban, Quezon
• Why: thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest

And to celebrate the festival, I made Pahiyas  Festival Cupcakes. Here's how -

Pahiyas  Festival Cupcakes

What We Need:

Gumpaste

Rolling Pin

Royal Icing in Gold

Basket Weave Tip #46

Knife  

Fondant in various colors (pink, purple, yellow, orange and green)

Small oval fondanrt cutter

Modelling Shell Tool 

Here's How:
(1) Roll gumpaste and cut into a rectangle. Cut a smaller rectangle inside to serve as a window.

 (2) Pipe a basket weave design diagonally to serve as the wall's design.

(3) Using the colorful fondant, cut out the ornaments to adorn the wall. Use the modelling shell tool to curl the cut outs.

 (4) Paste the cut outs to the wall/window.

Now, an iconic Pahiyas Festival image has a girl watching the festivities on the window. So I did just , that. Only this time, I did a shortcut and drew a girl on the window :)

Happy fiesta, everyone!