Curious George cupcakes
We all have our childhood security blankies, mine was a dog that I still have to this day. The Kid’s is a little Curious George doll that he’s had since he was a few weeks old. Ol’ George has already seen better days but you can tell he’s been well loved for eight years. Hopefully his stuffing will hold for another eight more and beyond.
I fondly remember one of my birthdays my mom made me a cake with an image of my favorite dog and it was my most memorable birthday ever. It all comes back to cake! I decided to do the same for my kid and make his day by baking up cupcakes with Curious George faces.
I started with sketches to get the shape just right, then cut out the pieces of fondant to make toppers. Whenever you’re creating edible character the best thing to do is to look for features that stand out. Curious George has big ears that sit low on the head and a large long smile. Play up those features to make it recognizable. Even if it isn’t exact, at least people will get the gist of it. Other examples of emphasized features are Oscar the Grouch cupcakes and Elmo cupcakes.
Make these sweet Curious George cupcakes for your own little monkeys next party, the pure joy on his face made the whole thing worthwhile!
Curious George cupcakes
Ingredients:
brown fondant
light pink fondant
black fondant
banana cupcakes, frosted
Instructions:
You can buy pre-colored fondant or buy white and then use food gel dye to get the colors you need.
Start by rolling out the brown fondant and using a 2-1/4″ biscuit cutter to cut out circles. This will be the base of the monkey head.
Do the same with the pink fondant and cut out circles, then cutting out the shape of the face.
Use small amounts of black fondant to shape the eyes, mouth, nose and place them on. If you’d rather pipe icing that works well too, just keep in mind that icing tends to spread and bleed into fondant. So if you go for icing face details, do it at the last minute before serving.
Using more pink fondant form the ears and stick them to the back of the head. These can be made in advance and kept in a sealed container.
When you’re ready to serve, place these finished monkey faces on top of frosted cupcakes.
These are the cutest things I’ve ever seen. I’m too intimidated to work with fondant though. One day I’ll get over my fear and make these cupcakes….
So impressive!
makes me want to try making these! I liked you little step step process that helped to nake it seem like i can do it.
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These are adorable! I had a monkey stuffed animal when I was little and would have adored these cupcakes! Thanks for the instructions.
Hello!
I think your cupcakes are very fun…I would like to try to do them…can you be more detailed with your instructions? And maybe with the ingredients? I don’t know if the things you talk about exist here in Portugal 🙁
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These are so cute!! My little girl (2) calls Curious George ‘ha ha’ too. 🙂
My daughter has given herself the nickname of monkey (which fits her personality) so I have to make these for her!
Fabulous cupcakes!!! Thanks for sharing such a great idea.
Oh my goodness! My almost 5 year old has been toting a Curious George around since he was 1, he calls him Gaki. LOL. We’re Greek and we used to read the books in Greek and his name in Greek is Georgaki. When my son says his name it almost sounds like yucky. You have no idea how many people have asked why he calls his monkey yucky. I think we’ll have these at his birthday coming up!! He got so excited when I showed them to him, thanks so much!!
OMG! I love it! Curious George books were my absolute favorite when I was a little girl. I don’t have any kids yet, but when/if I do, I will be reading them my fave childhood Curious George books and making these cupcakes. Too cute :):)
LOVE these!! You just made birthday planning so much easier. Got my theme now haha. Thanks for the lovely instructions, yours look great!
I have to learn what all this fondant stuff is about because these would make the perfect cupcakes for my son’s 2nd birthday! Any tips on where to buy fondant? Maybe a party store?
I buy fondant at Surfas, but you can buy it at any craft store, Michaels, Joanns, but it’s the generic Wilton brand.
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Hi Jen:
Thank you so much for the curious george cupcake instructions. I took it and created a curious george cake!
Sincerely,
Gayane
P.S Let me know if you would like me to send you photos
Made these tonight for my daughters 2nd birthday and they came out great! I made my own fondant (marshmellows/powdered sugar recipe) and they are so tasty!
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Thank you so much for posting this, especially in steps. Going to try to make these today for my son’s 3rd birthday party next weekend. Hoping it goes well…
Helpful blog, bookmarked your blog for interest to read more!
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