How to Make Valentine Love Potion Cupcakes

Funny how inspiration strikes at the strangest circumstances. Like these love potion cupcakes. 

I was busy deleting spam comments from my blog when an interesting phrase caught my attention. If I remember correctly is says "Love potion blah blah blah". I wish I could have saved the whole comment but I can't find it now. All I can remember was the phrase "love potion" and just like in the movies (or TV), bulb dinged on my head and an idea for a Valentine post was born. 

Ahh.. love potion, in Filipino - gayuma, how can I transform it into cupcakes? How do they really look like? Is this something one applies like a perfume or something that can be drunk so one can attract someone? I was thinking mine should be a literal version - a cauldron overfilled with hearts with some hearts literally jumping out of it. 

Want to make some Valentine Love Potion Cupcakes? Here's how!

Love Potion Cupcake Tutorial

What we need
Fondant in brown, red, white
Small heart fondant cutters
Small heart sprinkles
Fondant ball tool
Toothpick
Rolling pin
Water and brush to glue things together

Here's how:
(1) Roll brown fondant into a ball. 

(2) Create a cavity on the top of the brown fondant using the ball tool. 

(3) Roll a piece of fondant into a rope.

(4) Position the rope on the edge of the cavity. Cut the excess. 

(5) Roll red and white fondant thickly. 

(6) Cut out small hearts in different sizes. 

(7) Stick some hearts onto the toothpick

(8) Stick the toothpick onto the "cauldron"

(9) Fill the "cauldron" with heart sprinkles

Have a fun-filled, sweet and oh so romantic Valentines everyone! 

How to Make High Heel Shoe Cupcakes

Once again I am currently in a dilemma on what to call these cupcakes. Want to know what post titles I came up with?

• P & F cupcakes (a.k.a Pillow and Footwear Cupcakes) - oh my, I am cringing! For a Valentine post that doesn't seem romantic. 
• Happily Ever Cupcakes - because these cupcakes are Cinderella inspired. The shoe being the reason why Cindy (let's call her Cindy) and Prince Charming got together.
• Cinderella Cupcakes - it couldn't get any more direct than that. But then again, I didn't make glass slippers so I can not claim outright that these are Cinderella Cupcakes

In the end I settled with Shoe Cupcakes because simply put, they are just that - lovely shoes. 

I have been meaning to make Cinderella themed cupcakes for a while now because it's is my fave fairy tale when I was a kid and let's keep the next sentence a secret between the two of us. I devour every adaptation of it, be it books or a TV series or a film or a soundtrack or a musical.

And what better way to show my apprecition for Charles Perrault's beloved story than by making some shoe cupcakes. And in true Cinderella fashion, let's put it on top of a pillow similar to how the palace people presented the shoe to Cinderella. 

Shoe Cupcakes Tutorial

What we need:
Fondant in Pink, Baby Pink (for the Baby Pink one, I used a ready made fondant from Wilton), Gray and Purple
Pink and Silver Luster Dust
Lady's Miniature Shoe Set - I got mine from Baking Buddies
Rolling Pin
Fondant Extruder (optional) 
Stitching Tool (Optional)
Assorted centers silicon mold (Optional) also from Baking Buddies
Brush for dusting
Brush and water to paste things together

Here's How:
(1) Roll pink fondant and cut out the shoe parts (except the heel and the sling at the back). 

(2) Make sure to brush the cutters and the fondant generously with cornstarch so it will easily come off. 

(3) To make the heel, roll a small piece of pink fondant into a ball

(4) Then shape it into a... I don't know what shape it is... a semi round and semi cylinder combined? Anyway, follow the below shape.

(5) Flatten the round part and roll the other end thinly. Make sure to sharpen the edges to make it look like a heel.

(6) Attach the heel to the shoe. 

(7) Now, time to add the strap. Just brush the shoe with a bit of water on the edges. Let it dry for a while. 

(8) With a dry brush, dust the shoe with pink luster dust. 

(9) Let it ... sparkle!

(10) Now, to add an accent, get a small piece of gray fondant and use the Assorted Centers Silicon Mold and the silver luster dust to make an accent for the shoe.

(11) Paste the accent onto the middle of the front strap.

(12) Now to make a pillow. Shape a purple fondant into a square with a rounded edges.

(13) Place some piece of baby pink fondant onto the extruder

(14) Get ready to extrude :)

 (14) Get two strings and twirl them together

(15) Place them on the pillow

(16) Get a small piece of baby pink fondant and use the Assorted Centers Silicon Mold to make round accents on the corners of the pillows

(17) Run the stitching tool on the surface the pillow in a crisscross fashion to make a pillow design

(18) Place the shoe on top of the pillow. I inserted a toothpick running from the heel to the pillow for extra support. Remember, prevention is better than cure. This is true even for cupcake toppers. 

Putting the shoe on top of a pillow gives it a royal vibe doesn't it?

How to Make Fondant (or Gumpaste) Octopus Cupcake Toppers

Related posts:

How to Make Boat Cupcakes

How to Make Fondant Starfish Cupcakes 

It's official. I think I may have left my brain in Boracay,

I mean, why else am I obsessing about sea themed cupcake toppers in the middle of January? Last week, I showed you how to make Boat Cupcakes. And last year, there were some cute Starfish Cupcakes that came out of this blog. And now we're delving deeper into the sea. 

We're making octopus cupcakes today. Yeah, in the middle of January when it's still cold at night (read: malamig pa rin ang simoy ng hagin) and here I am thinking of summer. Please tell me, it's okay :)

Fondant (or Gumpaste) Octopus Tutorial

What we need:

Fondant in purple, black and white

Fondant Tool

Scissors

Toothpick

Brush and water to glue things together

Here's how:
(1) Roll purple fondant in a ball

(2) Shape it in a sort of figure eight or sort of a jar.

(3) Cut the smaller end  into two

(4) Then the two into half again

(5) Continue until our octopus have eight arms

(6) Open up the arms and form a tip on each arm

(7) Let Mister Octopus stand and and curl this arms outwards.

(8) Use the fondant tool to mark where the eyes should be

(9) Add the face details.

Tadah!! Octopus cupcakes are perfect for under the sea themed parties don't you think? :)