Cupcakes. The final frontier…

A lot of my friends love Star Trek, but my friend Jessica is a huge fan. She has a hilarious web series called Awkward Embraces and one episode that had me laughing out loud (Episode 6) was when she went on a date and talked about Star Trek TNG. A lot.

When I thought of making cupcakes, I thought of Star Trek ToS – the original series. I like the colors and the ‘modern’ look – the sleek view of what the future is supposed to look like. I thought that would translate well into a cupcake. What? You don’t have sketchbooks full of ideas of how your favorite nerd things can be turned into a cupcake? Ok, just me.

So I made these cupcakes for Jessica and all of our friends who love Star Trek…of course the red ones would be eaten first. So sad.

ingredients:
fondant
red gel dye
blue gel dye
yellow gel dye
silver luster dust
cupcakes
frosting

I wanted to make the cupcakes look like the Enterprise crew shirt colors. First I took regular white fondant into three parts and dyed it red, yellow and blue. High quality baker’s fondant tastes slightly better than your average store bought fondant and I think it dyes a bit better.

Roll out the fondant to about 3/16″ thick, then using a 2.5″ biscuit cutter, cut out circles.

Let the circles dry for 1-2 days in covered or in an airtight container.

For the insignia I printed out images on heavy cardstock, making them 1″ tall. Using an x-acto I carefully cut out the pieces. This will serve as the template.

I rolled out plain white fondant to 3/16″ thick and laid the template over it, cutting out the emblems with a CLEAN x-acto knife.

The whole point of these cupcakes was really just so I could play with luster dust. I mean, getting to make food bright and silvery AND edible? Awesome. It was so fun, I’m now addicted. I want to bling out everything. Silver carrots anyone? Ok, too far.

Using a clean paintbrush – brush the silvery powder onto the fondant. Careful, it tends to get everywhere.

Let the symbols sit and dry out, then place them on top of the colored circles.

I made Brown Sugar Cupcakes (recipe, here) and frosted them with a Whipped Cream Cheese frosting (recipe, here) and when I was ready to serve, I simply placed the fondant circles on top of the cupcakes.

I took these to a party and all the Star Trek fans loved them. Success!

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