Fondant Lantern Tutorial for Chinese New Year Cupcakes!

So I’m pret­ty sure the biggest ques­tion on your mind these days with the approach of Lunar New Year is: Is this the year of the goat or the sheep?! 😉 I’m sor­ry to report that I don’t have a defin­i­tive answer for you. My friend Kris from kCre­ative also tried to resolve this conun­drum with her adorable cake pop tuto­r­i­al on the Craft­sy blog and I think the over­all con­sen­sus is that it can be either one!

A cou­ple of years ago, my fam­i­ly and I cel­e­brat­ed the New Year, along with my grand­moth­er’s birth­day with this What’s Your Sign par­ty, filled with Chi­nese inspired decor and food! My moth­er’s side of the fam­i­ly is Chi­nese, mak­ing this a spe­cial time of year for us, so I want­ed to cre­ate anoth­er fon­dant top­per that would work per­fect­ly with Chi­nese New Year cup­cakes. Since last time I cre­at­ed top­pers repli­cat­ing all the ani­mals of the lunar cal­en­dar, this time I focused a rec­og­niz­able ele­ment in the world­wide cel­e­bra­tions: the Chi­nese lantern!

Head over to the Craft­sy blog for the three-dimen­sion­al fon­dant lantern tuto­r­i­al to adorn your Chi­nese New Year cup­cakes com­ing up on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 19th! And, in addi­tion to the inspi­ra­tion in the What’s Your Sign par­ty, check out the fol­low­ing links to com­ple­ment your Lunar New Year gifts and celebrations:

♥  Fon­dant for­tune cook­ie tutorial

♥  For­tu­nate Valen­tines cookies

In the Lunar cal­en­dar, I’m a horse… what are you?!

Merci Beaucoup!

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