Footprint Cupcakes

I made these for a baby shower for a good friend who, after three beautiful girls, is having a little boy! I originally saw these in Wilton's Cupcake Fun book and then tweaked the design.


These are dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla marshmallow fondant (MMF). The original design called for using the smaller ends of icing tips to cut out all the toes but with three dozen cupcakes, that's a LOT of toes! After slaving away over the blue ones, I opted to use buttercream frosting for the white toes. And I may just insist on doing it that way from now on!