Easy Star Cupcake Toppers!!
My friend Callye recently challenged a bunch of bloggers to find creative ways to use a star cookie cutter.
In case you didn’t know, Callye is like a cookie cutter ninja. I knew better than to even TRY to come up with a fancy smancy cookie. Instead, I decided to incorporate the cutter into MY favorite medium — cupcakes!!
I absolutely LOVE using chewy candy like Airheads in my creations. It’s cheaper than fondant, and tastes way better too. So I decided to pair Airheads with a small star cookie cutter to create edible cupcake toppers.
A five year old child could handle this project.
I mean that literally.
I used fun sized Airheads, which you can buy in a bag at most grocery stores like Walmart or Target. The small star cutter came from the hobby store…you can find sets of cutters of all sizes where they keep the fondant cake decorating supplies.
Just cut the stars out of your Airheads and stick them on top of frosted cupcakes.
If you want to add candy “streamers”, just cut your Airhead into strips using a clean pair of scissors and twirl around a dowel or sturdy straw. Let harden for just a bit and slide it off!!
(that photo was from my New Years Cupcakes I did last December)
You can totally make these!! Easy peasy.
Now — want to see what all the OTHER fabulous ladies did with a star cookie cutter?
Prepare to be amazed…
- Strawberry Shortcake on a Stick, The Decorated Cookie
- Patriotic Lace Cookies , My Little Bakery
- Independence Day Parade Cookies, Jill FCS
- Old Fashioned 4th of July, Vicki’s Sweet Treats
- Light up the Fourth Cookies, The Partiologist
- Declaration of Independence Cookie, Vanilla Bean Baker
- Badge of Liberty Cookies, Lila Loa
- Red, White & Blue Star Cookie Towers, Bake at 350
- 4th of July Firecracker Cookies, Klickitat Street
- Star Cut-out Cookies, Glorious Treats
- Cookie “Pledge”, Lizy B Bakes
- Star-Shaped Krispie Treats, Cookies and Cups
- Easy Star Cupcake Toppers, Confessions of a Cookbook Queen
- Rustic 4th of July Galletes, Haniela’s
- Patriotic Cookie Wreath, Sweetopia
- Patriotic River Rafter, Ali-Bee’s Bake Shop
- Funny Fox Cookies, The Bearfoot Baker
- Quilted Cookie Stars, Cookie Crazie
- Gimme Your John Hancock Stars, Life’s a Batch
- Patriotic Cookie Stir Sticks, The Cookie Artisan
- Patriotic Floral Stars, SweetSugarBelle
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Love these! So easy and cute…
These are so cute! Now I need to go to the store…
What a fun use of Air Heads – And they look so cute on the cupcakes!
Airheads!!! That is totally brilliant! I would have made an entire batch of fondant but this is WAY BETTER!! Thanks for sharing!
I haven’t had an airhead since high school! Love the cute little stars! So creative!
These are so cute and perfect for next week’s celebrations! You are right, I am completely amazed when I saw all of the creativeness.
Oooh, I was just thinking about airheads. Now I know they make them in red and blue…. :) Thanks for great tip!
Great idea!
Such a simple yet cute idea for patriotic cupcakes. :) ?
O.K., now I’m wishing we had Air Heads in Canada (we do have a few but not the candy kind LOL) Seriously, these are so fun and I think quite pretty. Great idea and I hope you enjoy a wonderful 4th of July celebration.
Airheads?!? Oh my gosh! Can I tell you how much kiddo would love me if I used Airheads instead of royal icing?!? That would move me right into “cool mom” territory. At least for the day. ;)
This is absolutely genius! Definitely adding these to my fourth of July cupcakes next week!! Thank you for sharing.
Those are adorable and I LOVE airheads! How fun!
Clearly….I need to run out and buy a gazillion airheads! These are so super cute!
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One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is candy turned cupcake topper. GENius.
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Super cute, and I’m sure tasty too!! I love seeing the non-cookie projects in the star challenge, it added a nice variety!
Brilliant, Kristan! I need to make these, they’re adorable!
i LOVE that these are air heads!! so amazing!
So simple and so effective!
Kristan, those are brillant! I could do these easy peasy! Now I wanted to let you know that I made your coconut truffles (which were delish) and NILLA-Banana cookie balls (Kraft) and regular chocolate cake balls, for a monkey-themed baby shower. They were a huge hit! My fav were the coconut truffles! I even finished them off. The stinker of the situation was I ottally forgot to take pictures of the truffles!!!!! So I guess I will just have to do a re-do! Thanks for youre awesome blog, you have no idea how it lifts my spirits some days!
Em
These are sooo wonderful and I learned something new today – trust me – I will be trying the Airheads decor – who knew??? Thanks for your beautiful creations and teaching me something new!
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I love these! What size piping tip did you use for the icing? I love how fluffy it looks!
I LOVE AIRHEADS! I CRAVE THEM. Heck, who are we kidding, I crave everything, LOL! And I love the confetti even more!
These are brilliant! I love the curly q’s. I hope you’ll add these to my Patriotic Project Parade. I would love to see them there.
http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/2012/06/patriotic-project-parade-linky-party.html
You have such good ingredients in America – Airheads!! We don’t get them in the UK. Time for some Internet retail I think!
These are brilliant! Thank you!
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Those look so nice. The kids will love to make these….but I think they will eat all the candy before we can even make the cupcakes. Thanks for sharing :)