Octopus Cupcake Toppers

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Published on Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Learn to make these little octopus cupcake toppers... TOTALLY CUTE, when colored in pink and detailed with little octopus eyelashes. Lovely.

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First off, I cut out white 2" circles out of my beloved gum paste. After rolling 8 little super cute ("cute" being the operative word here) pink octopi leggies, I adhered them to the circle with royal icing.

Before the gum paste had time to dry, I pierced little holes into the legs so that when I went to adhere the head, the royal icing had more to grab onto. Thinking like a ceramics maker! That one class I took in college is really paying off ;)

Next, I made the CUTE little octopi heads out of gum paste, and adhered them with royal icing.

Then with more royal icing, I piped white eyes, and then finished with black pupils. Because I KNOW a good octopus would have cute eyes like this. Even better? Eyelashes. Every octopus needs dainty eyelashes.

Viola! Little lovely lady octopi.

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Thanks Christina for the great tutorial!

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