More Cupcakes!

I'm so excited that the icing turned out smooth this time!  I made the buttercream icing with icing sugar, butter, meringue butter and water.  We then just tinted the icing as we went.

First off, we piped these purple roses with a 2D tip. For the other ones, we piped the pink roses on a nail and then transferred them onto the iced cupcakes, then piped the leaves on last with the leaf tip.

My friend then had to leave for work so  I piped the rest of them and finished up icing.  The bottom right was piped with ruffle tip with the same pink as the roses. Dots were piped in the middle.
I tinted the last batch of icing yellow.  A leaf tip was used to pipe the flower on the top left.  The other two cupcakes were just piped with the classic swirl. It was harder to pipe the one with the sprinkles because I was squeezing out the last of the icing.

All of the cupcakes!

Christmas Gingerbread

I hope you all had a good Christmas!  I sure did.  Here are some gingerbread cookies that I decorated:

All I did was cover the different sized star shaped gingerbread cookies with green icing, stacked them and then put on the candies.  I made this with my sister and this was actually from a kit, so we didn't have to worry about buying the different supplies from different places.

These gingerbread men were actually from a kit as an activity to do with our little cousins.  The kids took theirs and I decorated the rest.  These were decorated with icing, candies and fondant.

This holiday season was awesome, not only was there lots of good food and good company, but I always look forward to the gingerbread decorating!