A Cupcake for You: Penguins

I have cupcakes on the brain.  That's what happens when you work on three different cupcake designs for three different friends in the same week.  I made these adorable little penguin cupcakes for a 7th birthday party yesterday:

Working with gumpaste is like going back to kindergarten and playing with play dough.  It's just about rolling basic shapes and sticking them together.  Once I had the design figured out, it was easy and quick to put them together, assembly-line style.  Add that to the fact that gumpaste can be done weeks--even months!--ahead of time, and you have a great DIY project if you're undertaking making wedding or party cupcakes.  Look how incredibly simple the cupcakes are.  But when you add a gumpaste topper, WOW!  I've said it before, I'll say it again:  I love all the printables out there, but I really, really love edible cupcake toppers.  

Or make them a little bigger, add a top hat and bow tie to one,  a veil and bouquet to another, and they'd make an adorable cake topper for a winter wedding.