Easter Cupcakes

I used the yellow cake recipe and vanilla frosting recipe from The Big Book of Cupcakes.
This is my first order!  2 dozen Easter themed cupcakes for a bake sale.  Yippee!

Wooden Cross and Sprinkled Flower

Cross: Gum paste and brown food coloring (mixed it all one color and then added more brown coloring to make the wooden look) , used fondant tools to make wood markings
Flower: Gum paste and orange/yellow coloring,  covered in meringue powder/water mixture and then yellow sprinkles
Grass: Frosting with green food coloring, star tip 

Sugar Chick and Eggs

Chick: Gum paste with yellow/orange coloring, covered in meringue paste and then sprinkles
Eggs: Mini Robins Eggs candy
Grass: Frosting with green coloring, star tip 

Daffodils

Flowers: Gum paste with yellow/orange coloring, fondant shape cutters
Grass: Frosting with green coloring, star tip
See more info below

How to make gum paste daffodils:

 

Use food coloring to make the gum paste the desired color ( I used yellow and orange for daffodils).
Roll the gum paste into a thin layer, about 1/8" thick.

Remember- gum paste is VERY sticky!  Make sure to put cornstarch or powdered sugar down before you try to roll it.  Oops!

Once your gum paste is rolled, use the flower cutter.  For layered flower, cut multiple sizes for the different layers.

Use your fondant tool with the tapered edge (or a toothpick works as a substitution)  and roll the edges of the flower petals to make them thin and it also gives the ruffly effect.  

Place in a flower shaping cup to dry!

To put the layers together, use a dot of meringue paste as adhesive.

Bunny Butts

Bunny: Marshmallow fondant shaped into a smooth ball (butt), a small ball with tip marks to make it look fuzzy (tail), 2 ovular feet.  Pink gum paste for the pads of the feet.
Dirt: Mixture of brown sugar and cocoa powder
Grass: Frosting with green coloring, star tip

Cupcake Chicks

Chick: Frosting with yellow coloring, spiky look when you put the spatula down and lift up (repeat all over)
Beak: Orange colored gum paste
Eyes: Melted chocolate

Happy cupcaking! <3