Airplane Cupcakes

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Indulge your taste buds in the whimsical world of aviation with our delightful Airplane Cupcakes. These standard-sized cupcakes are adorned with a heavenly combination of sky blue buttercream icing, reminiscent of a clear, sunny day. The clouds, piped in fluffy white buttercream, provide the perfect backdrop for the star of the show – a charming chocolate airplane perched atop the cupcake.

Airplane Cupcakes Recipe

Crafted with care, this recipe promises a delightful journey for your taste buds, blending rich chocolate, sweet fondant stars, and the airy textures of buttercream – a treat that will make your dessert dreams take flight.

Ingredients

standard size cupcakes
sky blue buttercream icing
white buttercream icing
tip #2A
airplane chocolate candy mold
blue candy coating
sky blue candy coating
red candy coating
white rolled fondant
mini star cutter

Instructions

Mold airplanes: Melt candy coating. Using a paint brush or small parchment bag, paint blue and red dot details into the candy mold. Allow to dry at room temperature. Fill mold with sky blue candy coating and place in freezer. When candy is cold and mold is cloudy, remove from freezer and pop candy out of molds. Roll white fondant very thin and cut tiny stars. Attach stars to airplane wings over the red circles with melted candy coating.
Pipe sky blue buttercream on top of cupcakes using tip #2A. Smooth top of cupcake. Using tip #2A and white buttercream, pipe white fluffy clouds. Nestle chocolate airplane in white fluffy cloud.