Tutorial: Make Angry Birds Cupcakes

Dot — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:01:14 +0000

My son, he who inspired the Clone Trooper Cupcakes, Dragon Cake, and Perry the Platypus Cake, is obsessed with Angry Birds. Well, he’s really obsessed with about a dozen games on the iPhone or Android when we’ll let him play them — and he got to play a lot while we were on vacation in Mexico. And we had a 4 hour delay so I played my share of Angry Birds, too. Anyway. So here they are in cupcake form (here are a bunch of other Angry Birds creations, too). Lots of fun to make, and quite tasty, too!

Wanna make them yourself? They really aren’t that hard. But I will warn you, they are definitely time consuming!

OH YEAH! Please go vote for these in the instructables cupcake contest!

More photos on Flickr

Basically, on top of your standard iced cupcakes, you place a bird. The birds (and pigs) are made out of donut holes covered in marshmallow fondant, (the smaller birds are wrapped up mints or whoppers or similar). It’s like playing with playdoh, and my 6 year old actually helped me make one of the set of 3 little birds (those are easier to make because with a hard center, you don’t have to be as careful while wrapping them). Really, this is not that hard to do, it does take a little time and patience though, especially to kneed all those different colors into your fondant!

I wrote up an Instructable with everything step by step, and you can download it here: PDF: How to Make Angry Birds Cupcakes

Roundup of 14 Food & Craft ideas for Angry Birds!

Dot — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:16:17 +0000

Angry Birds Cookies

My 5 year old has discovered the world of iPhone games, and loves Angry Birds. So in honor of him, here’s a roundup of some fun Angry Bird things you can eat, play with, or make!