Today is the release of Disney's The Pirate Fairy! We detailed the blue pixie dust cake pops in another post. Now, the final details: decorated cookies and cupcakes for the Pirate Fairy Party.
Royal icing recipe: 3 egg whites, 1/2 t cream of tartar, 1# powdered sugar. Pipe and fill the cookies.
For the water droplets, pipe, fill with blue icing and add white highlights while the blue icing is still wet.
Cracked eggs to represent the animal fairy talent. We also made feathers, beans, and petals.
For the Zarina cookie, I turned a bunny head upside down and piped her body and parts of her clothing, then the wings. After those parts set a bit, I added the legs, arms, hair, sword, etc.
The butterfly cookies were made into fairy wings. Similar technique to the
fairy cookies I made last Spring. After the icing set, I hand painted the cookies with food coloring and water.
The treasure map cookie was hand painted, as well. I started with an antique wash. The uneven icing texture was intentional to give it more depth and aging.
I painted the details with a darker brown food color and thin brush.
After the painting dried, I piped a banner similar to the movie poster for Disney's The Pirate Fairy.
The next morning, I painted the banner and piped the movie title across the banner.
The map cookies seemed to be everyone's favorites.
Last sweet: fairy-sized cupcakes.
As the cupcakes baked, I colored some fondant green and rolled it out to make fondant leaves. I hand cut each leaf instead of using the side of a cookie cutter. You can cut the leaves either way. The vines were twisted around a pencil for the shape.
Half of the cupcakes were piped with vanilla frosting and sprinkled with yellow sanding sugar to look like gold pixie dust.
The other half of the cupcakes were swirled with straight up Nutella and topped with the fondant leaves and vines.
A few extras were piped with green frosting and topped with pink sugar pearls.
That wraps up the Pirate Fairy Party. The backdrop was made using colorful fabrics, Pirate Fairy dolls suspended with fishing line, a toy pirate ship and 3 bunches of tall faux grasses. A little Easter grass hid the cake pop holders and I included two of the fairy cookies I made last year and kept for display purposes.
Each kid filled their plate with several cupcakes and cookies. The bite-sized portions were perfect to sample a little of everything without major sugar over-load.
Here are the cake pops we made for our Pirate Fairy Party. The cake pops were easy to decorate and went perfect with the theme of the movie. Fairy Zarina holds the bag full of blue pixie dust and takes it to the pirates at Skull Island., so we have the blue pixie dust pops and bags full of pixie dust pops.
My niece couldn't wait to try out my daughter's cake pop makers. This is a great little appliance for baking cake pops. Rather than crumbling a baked cake, smooshing frosting and forming cake balls, the cake pop maker bakes ball shaped cakes. I think they turn out so much better than mushy cake when you mix the frosting into the crumbled cake.
We filled the batter dispenser with white cake batter and heated the cake pop maker for a few minutes.
Spray the maker with non-stick spray and then fill each circle with cake batter. The batter will immediately begin to puff up as the half circles are already heated. Fill as shown below:
Close the lid, flip the handle around (just like a Belgium waffle maker) and bake for approximately 1min45sec. Open the lid and remove cake balls. It takes about 15 minutes to bake approximately 72 cake balls.
After the cake balls cool, melt some candy melts and dip about 1/2" of the cake pop stick in the candy melt. Insert the cake pop stick into the cake pop and let the candy set. This will help secure the cake pop to the stick for easy candy coating.
Submerge the cake pop in the melted candy and then tap the stick on the side of the dish with the candy melt to remove excess candy melt (otherwise it will drip down the stick and make a mess).
For the blue pixie dust pops, sprinkle with blue sanding sugar while the candy melt is still wet. The cake pops that were made into the pixie dust bags we only coated with candy melts.
I colored some marshmallow fondant with blue food coloring. The marshmallow fondant was left over from another project and stored in the fridge. I heated it for a few seconds in the microwave and it became nice and pliable again. I like to use plastic gloves when coloring fondant. Just grease the glove with a little shortening and the fondant won't stick.
After the color is mixed in, roll a thin circle piece of the fondant and pierce it with the stick to cover the cake pop. Gather the fondant around the cake pop and pinch where the bag will come together. Roll out a thin piece of fondant to make the rope for the bag. Trim any excess from the top of the pixie dust bag.
We placed the cake pops around the pirate ship my son played with when he was 4 or 5. So glad to have grandma nearby who stores these sorts of things for the younger grandchildren!
Next, we'll share out Pirate Fairy cookie design and decorating. Are your kids looking forward to the DVD release of Disney's The Pirate Fairy?
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