Sprinkle Toppers on your Doughnut Cupcakes!

Nation­al Dough­nut Day is this Fri­day and to cel­e­brate, and my sweet friend, Dawn of Rev­el and Glit­ter brought 10 of her favorite and oh-so-tal­ent­ed par­ty and lifestyle blog­gers togeth­er for a week long par­ty blog hop bring­ing you crafts, par­ties and recipes every­day, includ­ing my tuto­r­i­al to cre­ate dough­nut cupcakes!

A Bub­bly Life | A Joy­ful Riot | Cup­cakes + Cut­lery | Gig­gles Galore | Grey Grey Designs | Lemon This­tle | Lulu The Bak­er | Lyn­lee’s | Mod­ern Moments Designs | Salty Canary

If you are not famil­iar with these extreme­ly tal­ent­ed women by now, for what are you wait­ing?! Head on over and check them out and I can assure you won’t be disappointed!

We also have an awe­some­ly sweet Pin­ter­est board, Always Time For Dough­nuts, full of our favorite dough­nut inspired ideas! Even­tu­al­ly, all of our projects will be there so be sure to fol­low it for lots of sweet inspiration.

We are on day FOUR (check out Day ONE with our give­away, Day TWO, and Day THREE projects) and we are bring­ing you three more fab­u­lous dough­nut themed projects, includ­ing my own: dough­nut cupcakes!

Of course, for my con­tri­bu­tion to this fun project, I just HAD to make dough­nut cup­cakes! These fon­dant cup­cake top­pers are super easy to make and can be a great to also do with kids! Fol­low the sweet and sim­ple steps out­lined below to cre­ate your own dough­nut cup­cakes to cel­e­brate Nation­al Dough­nut Day or adorn treats for a dough­nut-themed celebration!

What you’ll need:

• Ivory, pink, brown and pur­ple fon­dant with tiny bits of oth­er col­ors for sprinkles
• Water/edible glue and brush
• Fon­dant rolling pin w/ 1/8″ guide rings
• 1/4″ wood­en dowels
• Minia­ture cir­cle cutter
• __” cir­cle cutter
• 7/8″ scal­loped cir­cle cutter
• Round dec­o­rat­ing tip Nos. 3 and 12
• Plas­tic wrap
• Veg­etable shortening
• Cup­cakes and icing

Step 1:

Roll ivory fon­dant thick with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings. 

Step 2:

Place a piece of plas­tic wrap over the top of the fon­dant, then cut out a cir­cle with the __” round cut­ter. Remove the cir­cle and place it back onto your work surface.

Step 3:

Place the plas­tic wrap over the cir­cle and uti­lize the minia­ture round cut­ter to punch out the cen­ter of the cir­cle, cre­at­ing the doughnut.

Step 4:

Rolled out col­ored fon­dant {pink, brown, pur­ple or the col­or of  your choice} on your work sur­face with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings. Cut out a cir­cle with the 7/8″ scal­loped cutter. 

Step 5:

Apply a tad bit of veg­etable short­en­ing on the fon­dant with your fin­ger, then begin to slow­ly and gen­tly pull it apart around the perime­ter enough that it will fit on your doughnut.

Step 6:

With round dec­o­rat­ing tip No. 12, cut out a hole from the very cen­ter of the fon­dant, cre­at­ing the glaze.

Step 7:

Glue the fon­dant glaze to the dough­nut, cen­ter­ing the holes in the appro­pri­ate position.

Step 8:

Now, onto the sprin­kles! Roll out one of the col­ors with the rolling pin and 1/8″ guide rings. Cut out approx­i­mate­ly 5 cir­cles with round dec­o­rat­ing tip No. 3.

Step 9:

Take a cir­cle and roll it into a ball, then gen­tly roll it onto your work sur­face to thin it out a bit to make a sprin­kle. Repeat these steps for the remain­ing cir­cles and with addi­tion­al colors.

Step 10:

Glue the sprin­kles to the glazed dough­nut and allow the fon­dant to dry thor­ough­ly (1–2 days) pri­or to top­ping your cupcakes!

Don’t for­get to check out the oth­er two tuto­ri­als from my fel­low blog hop par­tic­i­pants! Hop on over to their blogs to check out the full tutorials!

Tem­po­rary tat­too bal­loons from Rev­el and Glitter

How to make a sports logo dough­nut wall with Grey Grey Designs

And join us tomor­row to round out our Nation­al Dough­nut Day Blog Hop with our final projects!

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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