Skylanders – Stealth Elf Cupcakes
Like most 6 and 8 year olds, my kids *love* Skylanders. It’s a fantastically intuitive game that uses a ‘portal’ which allows the kids to change characters by placing different toys on the portal. Genius! You can journey to different lands, battle creatures and collect treasures!
And genius marketing too because of course you have to collect all the various Skylanders! One of the favorite characters is Stealth Elf – I love that she’s a girl but both boys and girls alike enjoy playing her character. I decided to make Stealth Elf cupcakes so I took the figure while the kids weren’t playing and used that sketch out how I was going to make this edible.
Here’s where things go wrong. 1. The figure does NOT have the same colors as the character on screen. As the kids pointed out RIGHT AWAY. But, but…why is the figure’s face blue and her hair purple but on screen her face is green and her hair is blue? ARRGGHH — JENN SMASH. 2. My frosting colors did not come out the way I wanted and therefore didn’t match the figure either. WHAT. Not only does that make no sense but that means I’m wrong…twice. sigh. At least it was delicious.
ingredients:
chocolate cupcakes (recipe here)
cream cheese frosting (recipe here)
blue candy melts
various colored frosting
In a double boiler melt the blue candy melts and pour into a round candy mold. Place in the freezer until solid, then pop out the rounds. Set aside.
Using the same melted blue candy, make ‘ears’ on a piece of parchment by dipping a spoon in the melts then tapping and pulling the spoon back. Once you do a few you’ll get the hang of it and soon you will be the master of making pointy ears. Place those in the freezer until solid.
Take the solid ‘ears’ and dip the ends into the melted blue melts and use that as an adhesive to attach to the blue rounds which will become Stealth Elf’s head. Place one on each side.
Now you have the base of the head! To make the mask I used a #5 tip and piped across the bottom 1/3 of the round.
Again using a #5 tip I piped the bangs, then the sides of the hair.
In white with a #5 tip I made two slight ovals just above the mask for the eyes.
Then with a fine #2 tip and black frosting I went in and did an outline around the eye then the arched eyebrows.
Once the faces were set I placed them on top of chocolate cupcakes frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Even though the color was off, these little Stealth Elves were well received and made for good food fuel for the gamer guys I presented them to. They are pretty adorable and now according to my kids – I need to do ALL of the Skylanders. Uh, you know there’s like 32 of them right…? Yikes.
