Little Ballerinas

It's my daughter's ballet school's teacher / Principle's birthday last Friday. I have always love the idea of making those cute ballerinas or even their shoes on cakes or cupcakes. And I think to myself..."this is the "golden" opportunity for me to make some ballerina cupcakes!" Furthermore it will cheer up the teacher and the little ballerinas if I do bring them a nice treat during class. ;) So I did not think twice and got to work immediately since my girls have their ballet lesson every Saturday. I have to say my girls are always very supportive when I were to do such "projects", because they are always very excited about the decorations I put on my cakes/cupcakes. ;) I have once again used butter cake and Devil's food cake for the cupcakes, same as my last project. ;) Anyway, here is what I came up with: Sorry, I was again so rush for time that I have failed to take nice pictures with good lighting. :-P *don't I always* I was decorating the cupcakes up to the very last minute before we hurry off to lesson yesterday morning! Good thing my girls prepped themselves and waited patiently for me to finish up everything. *Lucky me* :)

So let me present to you one at a time my work for your viewing pleasure. ;) First up is a pair of fondant moulded ballerina shoes. This is probably the most popular idea for cupcakes. And it wasn't too hard moulding the shoes too...well comparing to what I did last time. ;)
Ballet dress, which again I used tinted fondant to do the job. A simple and yet nice design...I think, hahaha! My little daughter love this design the best...she kept saying "I want the pink dress!" For a moment I was thinking is she asking for a new pink dress or the cupcake, hahaha!

Last design is Dancing Ballerina. I probably came up with 6 different dancing poses with this design. Professionally speaking...they are very likely not correct ballet poses, but with a fine tip and piping bag...I guess these are the best I can come up with. :-P Wonder what are the poses? Okay, here's the photo I took of the 11 ballerinas after I just finish piping them the night before. ;)

With my pair of shaking hands, I had still managed to pipe, one shy of a dozen dancing ballerinas on the cupcakes. I just hope the teacher won't laughed at some of the poses I made up, hahaha!
Some of the cupcakes are individually packed, to be given to the real little ballerinas in my daughter's class. I have also packed a box of four for the teacher to enjoy. It's funny she later SMS me and told me she did not have the heart to bite into the cupcakes! She said it's too nice to be eaten, hahaha! I am so glad that she likes them so much and I was further rewarded when my daughter's friends all overjoyed and thank me upon receiving a cupcake each. ;)
Frankly speaking I had so much fun making these cupcakes. If I have to do it over again...I will! ;0 I guess it's all about the love and passion in baking. ;) Hopefully there will be a lot more of these fun and challenging projects for me in the future! Have a good day friends!