My first simple fondant cupcakes

I walked into a baking store over the weekend and laid my hands on the latest Wilton fondant cutter, which is not even featured on their spring collection yet. Just had to get it to try out. Immediately baked myself a batch of choclate cupcakes and tried to do my very first fondant cupcakes.

The cutter is easy to use but feel that the normal Wilton 'cookie cutter' type of flower cutters might have worked better. This is fanciful but use wise, not fantastic. It is hard to remove the fondant from the cutter. Have to say that the cutter does assist in embossing the fondant with some pattern which was interesting. Outcome of the cupcakes as seen above.

I am happy with the cuteness of the designs but feel that I can do better. Just need to think of some more ideas to play around with.

With left over frosting from making Mother's Day cakes, I pipped purple swirls for a colegue whose last day at work was Monday. Packed the cupcakes in a tray to facilitate her bring them home.