This is a complete tutorial of how I made theses adorable miniature Big Bird cupcakes for my daughter’s second birthday. They were a hit and super easy to make!
This is what you will need:
- Miniature cupcakes (Try and match the wrappers to the character.)
- Vanilla Frosting
- Decorating bags
- 4 Couplers
- Decorating Tip #101, #12, #8, #5
- Yellow, Orange & Pink gel food coloring
- Miniature Chocolate chips
All supplies needed to make these Big Bird cupcakes can be purchased {HERE}
You can either use store bought vanilla frosting or make your own vanilla butter cream frosting. Recipe can be found {HERE}. Section your vanilla frosting into 4 separate bowls in order to tint the frosting. Add the yellow coloring a little at a time, until you have reached the color of Big Bird’s Feathers. Add the orange until you get the correct shade for his beak. Now for the inside of his beak I added both orange AND pink to the frosting, to get the bright pinkish, orange color I used. You can leave the last part plain white, since this will be used for the eyes.
Fill you decorating bags and get all your tips ready to decorate! With tip#101 on your Yellow frosting get ready to pipe the feathers around the rim of the cupcake. You may want to practice on a piece of wax paper in order to get the feel of it first.
I created this by simply zig zagging the frosting up and down, so it laid upon it self. If there is a name for this technique, I have no idea what it is, I just thought it looked like feathers so I went with it.
Keep going around, until the entire surface of the cupcake is covered.
Now lets add the beak. With tip #8 on your orange frosting create a “V” shape in the middle of the cupcake.
Now with tip #5 on the orange/pink concoction 🙂 make a smaller “V” on the inside of the beak. You tweak this a bit after it sets using a spatula to add in definition, if you like.
With tip #12 on your white frosting add the eyes, above the beak.
Add the miniature chocolate chips…and you are done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions or just want to say hello to let me know you were here, please feel free to leave a comment below!
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