It was my daughter Olivia's birthday and I wanted to make her some special cupcakes. She loves her dog Cole so much, she calls him her baby. So, I decided to make cupcake toppers to look like him. First I tried a new snickerdoodle cupcake recipe. It was not as moist as I had hoped so I'm not posting the recipe but I'll try to tweak it and post my version later.
Next, after the baked cupcakes had cooled, I frosted them with hot pink frosting. I used square shaped white fondant pieces for the dog's faces, then topped them with hand cut jagged "hair" pieces. I used the bottom half of a heart cookie cutter to make the piece for the heads, and just cut triangles out all around. Then I used a small circle with more jagged cuts for the middle. Next I made muzzles from oval pieces with more triangle cut outs. A round black fondant ball for noses and they eyes were made with an edible food color pen. The ears were teardrop shapes and the collars were just rectangles with red fondant hearts added on top.
They really did look just like Cole! I was very happy with the way these turned out!
