Monday, March 18, 2013

Spring Animal Parade Cupcakes

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These fun and happy cupcakes are actually a creation of Wren's and I found them so adorable that I just had to share!

If you have little people or a party on the horizon I am sure these will please everyone.
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Our project starts with the animals. Wren and I picked up a bag of various animals at a thrift store for $2.99. Some of the animals had stripes wearing off and were ready for a new lease on life. We tossed them in the dishwasher just to get them all clean before we started painting.
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With a few paper plates and our favorite colors of craft paint we gave each animal 3 coats. After they were dry we added a few variations to a handful like polkadots or stripes, but others we just left as is. To do the polkadots and striped we just used the blunt end of a skewer dipped in paint!

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This is where Wren came in. We originally just planned to paint and play with the animals but she really wanted to put them on our cupcakes. I am well aware that craft paint is not edible and probably not a good idea to use on products touching your food. But for a little afternoon fun I felt it was fine. Would I leave the animals on the cupcakes for days? Probably not. For an hour or two? yeah. If you have an issue with it I am sure it would be easy enough to mount the animals on skewers with some hot glue so they don't quite touch.

To give our cupcakes a little hint of color and a lot of flavor we diced and added blackberries to a boxed white cake mix. These adorable baking cups are AMAZING because they don't brown or discolor during baking, I am a huge fan. You can find them here at Sweet Social.
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All iced up, with a few nonpereils Wren stuck her favorite few animals on enough cupcakes to serve at a family dinner we had at our house.
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To top off our creations we used our favorite stamp and made little flags on skewer sticks. A Happy Day, indeed.
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The rest of our zoo wandering around, waiting for dessert to be served.
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Be sure to stop by tomorrow to enter a really cute, customozed giveaway I'm hosting!

6 comments:

Kelly @ A Swell Place to Dwell said...

Adorable! I find it so hard to find little plastic animals around these parts...I guess I have to hit up the thrift stores more!

Nicole said...

Terrific and creative idea; the animals are adorable.

Monica said...

So cute, bravo Wren!

Mandy @HKCHIC said...

hahaha they are so cute!!!!!

Lemonade Makin' Mama said...

Those are so freaking adorable I can almost not stand it. I may have to flat out copy that cuteness one of these days!! And the little aqua zebra? Crazy cute!

(I wouldn't have a problem with the craft paint touching the icing either)

Unknown said...

love those!!

 
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