Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Yo, sushi!

A while ago Meals sent me a link to these beautiful sushi cupcakes http://www.flickr.com/photos/crumbsanddoilies/5529525564/ and since it was her birthday, I decided to do my own twist on the sushi cupcake theme.


I started by baking a batch of vanilla muffins and made an orange butter cream icing with icing sugar, non-salted butter and freshly squeezed orange juice (love any excuse to use my devil's elbow - thanks Lakeland!) Then I made the sushi as follows....



I made the rolls by colouring a lump of sugar paste black and making it into a ring on top of the muffin. The rice is dessicated coconut and the filling is dolly mix and icing coloured red for the pepper and neon green for the wasabi!


These were easy - just blocks of sugar paste coloured bright yellow and texturised with the end of my paintbrush, then I put strips of black sugar icing left over from my sushi rolls over the top to make them a bit more interesting. The glitter is edible and available online, it's fab!


The nigri is a cube of icing painted with edible glue (available at cakecraft.com!) and then dipped in dessicated coconut, then the prawn topper is just pink icing with a darker pink for the tail and detailing.



Oishii desu ne!

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