Star Trek cupcakes

February 6th, 2011 by justJENN

Cupcakes. The final frontier…

I love Star Trek ToS, the original series. The uniform colors and the sleek faux modern look are so very futuristic. Simple and colorful translates easiy into cupcakes so I sketched up some ideas and gave it a go.

Discs of colored fondant also look pretty futuristic, like tiny edible ships waiting to be eaten. I cut out fondant communicator symbols and gave them a little edible luster dust shine. Just the treat for a Star Trek fan…of course you know the red ones will be eaten first. So sad.

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Star Trek cupcakes

Ingredients:

fondant
red gel dye
blue gel dye
yellow gel dye
silver luster dust
cupcakes, baked and frosted

Instructions:

Dye regular white fondant into three equal parts, one red, one yellow and one blue.

Roll out the fondant to about 3/16″ thick and use a 2.5″ biscuit cutter to cut out circles. Let the circles dry out completely for a stiffer look.

Print out 1″ tall communicator insignias and use that as a template to cut out pieces of white fondant.

Using a clean paintbrush, brush the edible luster dust onto the fondant.

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

Posted in cupcakes, desserts, geeky, Star Trek| 7 Comments »

Jenn says:

February 7, 2011 at 2:22 am

I literally laughed out loud so loudly that I woke my son up way too early for school. Not because you made ST cupcakes, but because I saw them, and said to myself “hmm…wonder if she ate the red ones first or if they *gasp* fell off the counter?” Scroll down a photo and BAM! There’s my answer! So from one “geek” to another, thanks for the laugh and live long and prosper 😉

Kati Angelini says:

February 7, 2011 at 5:20 am

Jenn, I loved how you emphasized having a clean x-acto knife–for me that is the key to success for these types of designs–they turned out great–awesdome job!