Create your very own pumpkin patch.
It’s easy, trust me!
I had leftover royal icing from decorating cookies and tinted 1 cup of it orange and a 1/4 cup of it green.
I use Callye, Sweet Sugar Belle’s Royal Icing Recipe.
I used a #10 piping tip and piped out a pumpkin shape onto parchment paper on a cookie sheet pan. Then I piped on the green stems with a leaf tip.
I let them dry overnight.
Then I lifted them off the parchment paper and place them on a wire rack to be sure the bottoms had dried also, for an hour or so.
I baked up some yummy Pumpkin Spice cupcakes with Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Frosting.
Although you need to make the pumpkins a day ahead they are really easy and make for some really cute cupcake toppers.
Royal Icing Pumpkins
Ingredients
- 1 box French Vanilla Cake mix
- Ingredients to prepare mix
- replace ½ the water with pumpkin puree
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Instructions
- Prepare the mix according to package directions replacing ½ the water with pumpkin puree and adding 2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.
- Cool cupcakes completely before icing.
- Place pumpkin on frosting close to serving. The moisture of the frosting will soften the pumpkins, so don't apply them a day ahead of serving.
Notes
Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Frosting
½ cup butter
½ cup shortening
4 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup cocoa
Beat butter add shortening, sugar, cream, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla and cocoa and mix until smooth.
Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction says
The pumpkins look adorable. Great tips.
Elaine @ Cooking to Perfection says
What a great idea! I always have left over royal icing, but never know what to do with it. I’m definitely keeping this trick in mind.
And I love that you use shortening in your frosting too! I’ve been doing that for years and always get phenomenal results (compared to when I use all butter).
Jocelyn says
Those are so cute!!! The perfect bright touch to those awesome cupcakes!!!
Jen @ Juanita's Cocina says
These are adorable! What a great way to use up some extra frosting!
Hani says
These are adorable. I love the color scheme you chose!
Rita says
What a great idea…at first look, I thought the pumpkins were sugar cookies iced with orange/green. Not until I read the entire thing did I realize it was only royal icing. I will have to do this with my left over icing tonight. Thanks so much.
Kristen says
These are so cute – what a great idea to decorate cupcakes this way!
Hope @ With A Side Of Hope says
These cupcakes are super cute! 🙂
Jen @ Savory Simple says
Stunning!
Jen @ Jen's Favorite Cookies says
These really are darn cute! I hope you don’t need a lot of decorating skills to make these work, because I don’t have many!
Diane says
you will be so happy then, because they are super easy 🙂
alison @ Ingredients, Inc. says
just pinned these! LOVE
Sommer@ASpicyPerspective says
SO cute Diane!
Sylvie @ Gourmande in the Kitchen says
What a great cupcake topper, you could make a whole pumpkin patch!