![]() ![]() Cut the tip of your piping bag off and put your metal piping tip inside then add your frosting.įor the light purple frosting, use a large open star tip like a Wilton brand #1M tip. Use your spoon or cake spatula to scoop your mermaid frosting into piping bags. In the other bowl of white frosting add half a drop of blue food coloring, you can always add more but start small and see if you like the shade of blue first. ![]() In one bowl, add a drop of pink food coloring and half a drop of blue this should give you a light purple frosting color. Separate your white frosting into two bowls. Mix the ingredients in a large bowl with a hand mixer or stand mixer until they are completely blended and no sugar crystals remain. Make your vanilla buttercream frosting with 1 cup of unsalted butter and about 4.5 cups of icing sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla extract and 2 tsp of cream or whole milk. ![]() Cold cupcakes are much easier to decorate! Try popping your cupcakes in the fridge for 10 minutes before frosting them. Take your cupcakes out of the cupcake pan and allow them to completely cool on a wire rack to room temperature before you start decorating them. Cook them until the tops spring back when lightly touched. The pink and blue batter will also form purple inside the cake.īake your cupcakes for 16-20 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit, depending on your cake mix instructions and oven. The more small squeezes of batter you do, the more stripes you’ll see on the inside of your cupcakes. Use a spoon to stir the batter inside the bag until the color is completely mixed.Īlternate putting the pink and blue cake batter into the cupcake liners until they are each about ¾ full. Add blue food coloring to the second bag of vanilla cake batter this should give you a bright blue color. Add pink food coloring into one bag of cake batter this should give you a bright pink color. Separate the vanilla cake batter into two even halves. Fill your cupcake baking tin with cupcake liners. In a large mixing bowl, mix together 3 eggs, ½ a cup of vegetable oil and one cup of water with one box of cake mix (or your dry ingredients) in a bowl. Use vanilla cake mix or your favorite vanilla cake recipe for Mermaid Cupcakes. It might look a bit lumpier, but it’s more sturdy and the ‘raw’ side will be unseen and buried in frosting so it won’t matter. I made my second batch of chocolates quite thick on this pinch point and none of them broke the second time around. The smallest point of your chocolate mermaid tails will be the most prone to breaking. Let your chocolate mermaid tails cool completely to room temperature. I made the chocolate quite thick on the backside of my candy mold to reduce the chance that it would break as I took it out. Use a toothpick to help spread the chocolate into every corner of the mold. Cut a small hole at the tip of your bag once it’s loaded with chocolate so you can control how much comes out at a time. Pipe melted candy into your mermaid tail mold with a plastic bag or piping bag. You can do this before putting chocolate in the mold. It will give your chocolate mermaid tails an extra shimmer and dual-tone color. Optional step: Use edible purple luster dust to line your mermaid mold with sparkly powder. If this happens, throw them out and start with a fresh bowl then use a shorter amount of time and lower setting on your microwave. If you overheat your candy melts they may burn and turn hard. I melted mine in the microwave by changing the settings to 50% power and stirring every 20 seconds to see if it was done. You can use a double boiler or a microwave-safe bowl according to the instructions on your candy melts. Want more mermaid recipes? Check out these Mermaid Rice Krispy Treats, beautiful Mermaid Cake, super easy Chocolate Covered Mermaid Pretzel Rods, and this simple chocolate Mermaid Bark! How To Make Mermaid Cupcakes Make Chocolate Mermaid Tails Melt Chocolateįirst, melt your pink chocolate candy melts. The good news is you can make them pretty easily with just a few simple tools (like a mermaid tail candy mold) and follow my step by step photos for advice on how to make them at home. With edible chocolate candy mermaid cupcake toppers and colorful layered cake batter, they are a dream come true for any mermaid obsessed party host or guest. If you’ve got a Fin-tastic mermaid themed party coming up, these mermaid cupcakes are absolutely magical. ![]()
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